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guy offered me 5 cabs!
Nemss316:
Hey all, I have been looking into building my own MAME cab for quite some time now. I have been lurking these boards, and checking out everyone's cabinets, CP's and the like. I found a listing on Craigslist, and a guy has 5 cabs that he is wanting to get rid of. The one I'm interested in the most in, is a Defender cab that had a new CP installed. It currently has a Jamma set up in it, running Marvel Super Heroes. This is the cabinet I'm interested in the most, as the CP is new, buttons are new, and the monitor is new.
My questions are:
1. How hard would it be to rewire the controls through something like KeyWiz, to have a keyboard to use also?
2. The monitor is new as stated before, but if I run a MAME cab, I'm going to need to rewire it to connect to a PC. I've seen the stories on here about shocking yourself, and have to admit: this is my biggest holdup. How hard is it going to be to set the monitor for a PC to use, or would it be easier to just hook an LCD up and brace it in the cab?
Thanks for the help, and I will be sure to post pics of my Cab once I get it!
HaRuMaN:
:timebomb:
SirPeale:
Start reading. A lot. All the answers are here.
Buy this book: Project Arcade
Nemss316:
Book was ordered yesterday, can't wait to get it. I'm just trying to get an idea of which one of the cabs would be the best one to use. All of the cabs are pretty much stripped, except for the Defender cab, that currently has the Jamma board.
SirPeale:
Let's see some pictures. You can likely move the monitor to another cab depending on how it's mounted.