My Scratch built MAME machine (Sparcade!)

[sparcade]

Hi All,

I'm new to the board, but have been using the byoac site over the past couple months
while I built my own MAME cabinet.

I kept a photo log of my build process which you can find here if interested....
http://arcade.scalzisoftworks.com

Any comments are welcome.  I look forward to some input for my next project which
will be a stand alone juke box.

Cheers.

[Jdurg]

Very nice.  Congratulations on getting it done!   

I'm in the middle of the long journey myself and made my first "cuts" today.  Once the CP is cleaned up, I'll be posting pictures too.

I really like the green/black contrast there.

[sparcade]

Thanks Jdurg.  I was a little worried how the green and black would go together, but
I think it turned out pretty good.  Good luck on your build.

[Akuma]

Very nice judging from the pics - only think are the visible screws on the CP - maybe you might place some black plastic screw caps on them. Anyway, nice to see a different colour variation other than black-blue ; )

Btw: Didn't you sponsor your kid a breathing mask for sanding? ; )

[sparcade]

Akuma,
I was actually trying to let the bolts show on the CP. I don't think I quite got the look I was going for with them, but there was a method to the madness.

How it was supposed to work:  I can remove just 4 bolts and the top and sides of the CP slide right off. The CP uses  6 wire plugs to plug into front wall of the cabinet which then leads back to the KeyWiz.  My thoughts were I could swap CP's out with out too much trouble.  Sort of plug and play. Of course I have not built any another CP's yet :-)

It turned out that the CP top fit snuggly enough on that I could attach it to the rest of the Cp with just one hidden screw, so it the end, I probably would have just used formica right over where those bolts are now.



Oh, the pic of my kid sanding, mostly just for show, but it made him fell good 

[Akuma]

I see, I see. I am not quite finished with my project yet, but I am going for something similar (detachable CP). My experience is that I didn't have to use any fixation like screws - the CP rests perfectly on the CP housing. Anyway: It's you (and your kids) who have to like the outcome, not people like me as we all build our cabs for ourselves : ) So if you like the bolts, all is fine : ) Oh, and your plugs look very user friendly, unlike mine

[DaOld Man]

Good job!!

 

[Franco]

Good job!!

 

Ditto, looks nice and clean 

You could have gone for Spartacade...



Trackball in his mouth anyone? Actually that would be more like Gimpcade! 

[sparcade]

Just wanted to document with a couple updated pics.