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slapaham:

I think the first picture was very misleading on the angle - it is steep but not too steep - haha, yes, its very odd how I got hold of the kiosk - I'll let you all into a secret, I have around 10 of these! :o

They convert really well to arcade cabs - I don't think it would enter your mind that they once were transport kiosks - great size too and very light compared to your standard cab as they are made from fibre glass!

Basically, I worked for the county council for a couple of years until very recently when I had to quit to concentrate on my final year at Uni. I used to check the notice board and strangely enough I was after a laserdisc player so I posted a wanted ad. This guy got in contact with me, nice chap, who worked for the council redistributing old, unwanted materials they had. He said he had a player which later turned out to be a MSX 2 computer complete with laserdisc drive - fantastic! :)

I'd been looking to build a cab for ages and never thought I had the ability so quite a bit after the laserdisc collection I thought he'd be a good person to ask for materials - he said he had just the thing - I thought, that will be some wooden tables or something then! ;D Although, that was the kind of thing I was after. He showed me in the storage room rows of these kiosks and at first, I couldn't see the potential - it was dark and cramped in that place then it clicked just how good they were. I took one and got on with it. A few months later I showed him my work and he was impressed. He said that he had a proposition for me - would I like to do it as a potential business idea - he said I could have them as the storage centre was getting demolished and they were just going to be scrapped! I thought aboput it and thought what the hey! So I'm now stuck with loads of them. They are good, robust cabs with a lot of potential. I'm going to build a few and sell them (hopefully) at a bit of profit and then sell the remaining cabs as either kits or as they are to people who are looking for this kind of thing. I havent really had the time to plan it all out yet as I'm so busy but in the summer I will have more time. I'm going to keep 2 - one for a PC-based MAME cab and one as an Xbox-based MAME cab. The PC one will be shaped around a more retro-look while the Xbox one will be white and influenced by Japenese cabs (nice and modern)

For the four player thing - yes, from looking at the cab again (I havent been in the garage for aaaaaaaaaaaaages) I'd agree - pads are by far the best option! :cheers:

slapaham:

Other notes of interest are I got a few touchscreen monitors with them too and they work nicely with the cabs and the speakers were installed by me (the subwoofer on the side and the 2 tweeters at the top on the front - they are nothing particularly special - this is a test run cab really!) Interingly the few montiors I got have built in speakers though I never tried them out! The thing that looks like a coin door should be there is where transport tickets were once printed - I will probably install a coin door in it's place on the ones I do for myself. I kept one of the printing machines just in case I could mod it do something useful (which i haven't found a use for unsuprisingly!) The cab also has a built in fan that keeps the whole cab absolutely freezing - trust me, I played this thing last summer and I was cold without the back door on the cab!) The cab has locks for the door on the front and the back pre-installed and I have the keys. Wooden shelfs are inside and seem to vary from cab to cab (none of these things are exactly the same inside for some reason!) - these could hold anything pretty heavyweight and can be easily removed if needs be) All in all, these were quite neat for what I wanted.

severdhed:

since you have so many, you could always have two cabinets side by side, linked together.  you'd only need 1 PC even..just wire up the second cabinet as players 3 and 4, and make sure the video card in your PC can support two monitors.  have both monitors displaying the same image.  then you'd have plenty of room for 4 players, and with two screens, it wouldnt be crowded

slapaham:


--- Quote from: severdhed on February 13, 2009, 03:42:14 pm ---it wouldnt be crowded

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it might be where I had them set out though! ;D No, its a good idea, I had considered something similar but not quite the same. I thought if I ever decided to emulate anything other than MAME/Arcade I could always do some kind of system link between 2 cabs. Could be quite nice!

slapaham:

Darn it, severdhed! You've got me thinking now! ;D

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