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A Mame machine in an antique buffet - USB probs solved (I think!)
drventure:
Definitely
The list mechanisms are in place and functional, the front door is mounted and folds (it's manual, but that's good enough for now).
Getting the doors operating was a real trick. I had to chop up the entire front of the buffet, cut the fronts off the drawers and then biscuit everything together and hinge it 4 ways (so the folded doors would clear the flipper door hinges on the inside.
The real pain was the clearances. I'd already built the control panel, so I had to find a buffet that'd fit.
The one I ended up with didn't quite, so I had to extend the back.
I've attached a couple shots of that process, with the back all clamped up, and the hand carving I had to do to make the extension trim look like the original solid walnut top (it's 1" thick, and as far as I can tell, was all hand carved).
That was in interesting all day affair :banghead:
Demon-Seed:
Hey
that looks like a neat cabinet.. I can not wait for the finished project.
thx
Jim
drventure:
Thanks!
I'll upload more pics soon. Right now, I appear to have a prob with my ultrastiks, I guess 6 months of sitting in the control panel without being hooked up horked them. They won't recognize anymore on my machine when plugged in. ???
drventure:
I'm in a bit of a quandary about how to handle the screen on this cabinet.
I've got a couple possibilities (maybe there's more I'm not seeing though).
Originally, I was envisioning a single, largish (maybe 24" widescreen) lcd mounted to the underside of the buffet top.
The main prob with that is that I can't mount it such that it's over the flightstick, because of clearance issues.
So. I'd considered mounting the LCD on slides, so that it could slide to the left when closed, and be slid back to the right (to the center) when opened. Possibly even rotated for those vertically oriented games.
But... that's getting, shall I say, complicated.
Now, I'm starting to think that maybe using 2 smaller screens (say 19" 4:3 or 22" widescreens) might work better.
The outside players would be able to look directly at a screen and the inside players would still be almost directly in front of screen.
The only real downside I see is that my out player sticks, I mounted at a 45' angle (which I'm starting to regret, based on some comments around here), so having the screens directly in front of the player 3/4 positions might make that a little odd.
Any thoughts?
The buffet's 5' wide so there's plenty of space for either approach. It's also still pretty rough. There's lots of detailing work that still needs to be done.
Bender:
I think you should really consider lowing the flight stick and going with the largish screen, it might be a pain, but in the long run I think you'll be glad you did it that way. Much more simple and aesthetically pleasing.
It seems like you may have two ways to lower the flight stick, either lower the whole top tier of the CP or angle the flight stick slightly forward and recess it a little into the CP
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