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Thank You.
Flake:
No the cabinet is a Killer Instinct 1 Cab I got from an auction. I sanded it down, bondo'd the areas that needed it and painted it with a commercial spray gun. The monitor is a Toshiba 27" flat panel and the control panel is from Arcades R Fun. My cab costs me about $1850 or so this way with over half the costs going into the computer and control panel. I looked at Dream Authentics for a long time before finding this website but never pulled the trigger due to their high costs. The best they could do i think was a used Eladius cab for about $2300 but the real deal killer is the shipping costs - $400 to get to my house. With the amount of money your are forking over I suppose you took a hard look at them but rest assured you are getting a unit that will far surpass their $5000 unit.
The only thing about my cab that would have been better in going with Dream is that I would have a real arcade monitor but to be honest I am super pleased with my TV. Plus my control panel is better than Dream could have given me for that price and my computer is much better than what they would have supplied. I also like the Maximus Arcade FE better than the Dream FE.
Anyway, post some pics when you start getting things put together. I am very interested to see what $5000 gets you.
Visitor Q:
I spoke with Dream Authentic and they where very nice to me but decided to go with Mameroom for a few reasons. Hopefully in the end I will have made the right choice.
Between $4,500 and $5,000 is a lot to part with, I am not rich by any stretch of the imagination but am a firm believer in you get what you pay for on a whole. This is something I don’t plan on buying another one of anytime soon so I really wanted to not cut any sort of corners when getting exactly what I wanted here. I imagine I could have saved anywhere between $500 to $1000 if I built it all myself but, I really can’t be bothered not to mention I have no work working skills or types of tools. I have already spent countless hours configuring software for this thing…
When I put the PC together, the cabinet was an after thought and that is the reason why it was so much. Spending money on something like a Antec Nine Hundred case was maybe not the best choice when no one will even see it. =]
All in all time will tell if this was worth the extra money I put out so I guess we will just all have to wait and see.
Ps. The figures I posted here so include shipping.