Author Topic: Mamestrosity showcase cab updated!! (7/23/10...thinking of selling...) (Read 31510 times)

hulkster · « **Reply #120 on:** June 11, 2004, 10:13:35 pm »

ha yeah, its been crazy. i started with a few sheets of mdf, and now i compare pictures. ive impressed myself as well as many others who come and see it.

DrewKaree · « **Reply #121 on:** June 12, 2004, 01:06:06 am »

so now that you're done with that cab, are you going to take those pictures you've already shown us about dropping MDF and go into the foot porn industry?

SNAAAKE · « **Reply #122 on:** June 12, 2004, 04:00:00 am »

Quote from: drewkaree on June 12, 2004, 01:06:06 am

so now that you're done with that cab, are you going to take those pictures you've already shown us about dropping MDF and go into the foot porn industry?

Man..my foot owns anyone's foot here.Wanna see ?
Its so hairy and animalish..girls usually go garrrrrrrrwwwwwrrrrr

Err..arcades are cool

mcdo15 · « **Reply #123 on:** June 17, 2004, 04:16:37 pm »

this looks great..i would intrested in plans...
great job.

pcdoctor · « **Reply #124 on:** June 18, 2004, 03:55:55 am »

Congrats.
My dream machine would be using a 50" tv or bigger and have a guy friend do something like this.

mcdo15 · « **Reply #125 on:** June 21, 2004, 12:36:22 pm »

hulk, any words on your plans?
very intrested in this set up?

how are about in CP from TV part?
does the stand box fit into CP groove? (so it appears to be one piece)

any info is great

mmmPeanutButter · « **Reply #126 on:** June 21, 2004, 09:48:18 pm »

"My god no, oh my god no"

That's my girlfriend's response when I showed her your cab and told her that I was going to build one like it.

Nice. I like it.

DrewKaree · « **Reply #127 on:** June 22, 2004, 12:27:01 am »

Quote from: mcdo15 on June 21, 2004, 12:36:22 pm

how are about in CP from TV part?

Uh...whut?

hulkster · « **Reply #128 on:** July 09, 2004, 04:48:38 pm »

hey guys im back....couldnt stay away too long. got married, moved into the apartment and finally got the internet. however, my cab is kinda too big for the apt....still working on that though

anyway, i dont have any plans or anything as of yet. it might be a while before i ever get around to making them too. however, id be glad to answer any questions for those of you wanting to know how to make it, etc. drop me a line and ill answer the best i can.

**as a side note, my arcade is at my moms basement right now. and she had some maintenence guys come over to work on her air conditioning vents or something and they had to go down to the basement through the garage and she said when they walked in and saw my cab they said "OH MAN!! THATS THE COOLEST THING IVE EVER SEEN! GENIOUS!" aaaa...that makes it all worth it.

mcdo15 · « **Reply #129 on:** July 10, 2004, 10:28:56 am »

congrads on your marriage
i hope may have questions so be ready...

Matt, GoC · « **Reply #130 on:** July 10, 2004, 07:28:02 pm »

Quote from: Apocalypse Never on May 08, 2004, 01:39:04 am

Black...marble...c-contact...paper...
Dear god no! Not another one!!!
WHY!!!!!!!!!!!!
Dude you should commission one of the guys here to do you some fancy artworkin's for your CP. There's no reason to protect marble contact paper IMHO.

Hmmm... Just read this thread. I'm sure I didn't post this to this thread. Perhaps the forum software was having a bad day when I posted that. Anyway, looks great!

EDIT:
Ok, I'm pretty sure I wasn't on crack or anything when I posted that. Anyway, I still think black marble contact paper is just too tacky.

hulkster · « **Reply #131 on:** July 12, 2004, 08:32:27 am »

well i have some great news! my older brother and his wife and kids came into town and we took the kids to chuck e. cheese's (man that place has changed!). anyway, we are sitting there eating greasy pizza when my brother asks me about the arcade machine and i say "yeah im just gonna have to wait till we get a house for me to have the arcade nearby". and my wife says "well, we can try to put it in the apartment" YES!!! so you guessed it, we left a little early per my request and loaded up the whole thing and moved it from my moms basement to my apartment! it fits nicely and will not be in the way too much. anyway, i just thought i would share my joy.

MameMe · « **Reply #132 on:** July 12, 2004, 12:18:27 pm »

SWEET News ! You owe her big time now.

AmericanDemon · « **Reply #133 on:** July 14, 2004, 12:00:16 am »

Congrats! Now the hard work has truly paid off.

hyiu · « **Reply #134 on:** July 14, 2004, 12:13:17 pm »

Congrats !!!.... Now the cab is always near by.... haaa haa haa....

hulkster · « **Reply #135 on:** July 14, 2004, 02:02:07 pm »

yes it is...a very good feeling. thanks again for the comments! i still havent configured mame exactly how i want it....controls and all that need to be flawless for it to be complete. and i dont have a bezel that works great just yet, but im working on it. ill take pics of the cab in its new home soon and post them to show you just how great my wife is for letting me cram in this huge cab!

edit: oh and one more thing, as of this friday i'll have dsl in my apartment which comes with 10mb of web space! so ill be making a website soon

ill keep everyone who cares posted.

pointdablame · « **Reply #136 on:** July 14, 2004, 10:52:35 pm »

PICTURES!!!!

heh, get them up quick, your cab is great and I'd like to see it in its new home.

boyowilkins · « **Reply #137 on:** July 15, 2004, 07:09:05 am »

Hey hulkster,

Your cabinet is absolutely stunning. I just wish us lot in the UK had basements so that us thirtysomethings cold have a gamesroom

hulkster · « **Reply #138 on:** July 15, 2004, 08:30:28 am »

pointdablame- thanks for the compliment! always appreciated. and yeah ill get pics up real soon. last night i put the pc in and got it all back up and running so that was good....didnt think anything would be messed up, but you never know. once i put the bezel in ill take a few pics and post them.

boyowilkins- hey you dont have to have a basement! mine is a 2 bedroom apartment! i just put it in the corner next to my desk in the spare bedroom. the only hard part is convincing your significant other to let you do it!

hulkster · « **Reply #139 on:** July 24, 2004, 01:16:09 pm »

okay, heres the page. no i havent done the plans yet, because i left my tape measure over at my moms house! argh! so youll have to wait (for anyone thats waiting) on those. the page is sorta done...i still have to upload some of the downloads and link that section, as well as get some useful links in there, but the documented part is done for the most part. i know the page kinda sucks, but i formatted my pc and forgot to backup my copy of photoshop so no crazy graphics or anything on this one...cept for the ones pixelhugger did for me

anyway...

first there was the Mamestrosity the Dream....

then the Mamestrosity, the cabinet.....

now the Mamesrosity the web site!!!

http://bellsouthpwp.net/d/d/ddilday13/home.html

and coming soon...the Mamestrosity the Flamethrower!!.....the kids will love it.

Witchboard · « **Reply #140 on:** July 24, 2004, 07:24:05 pm »

LOL.. bandwidth exceeded. Looks like your page is more popular than you anticipated.

hulkster · « **Reply #141 on:** July 24, 2004, 07:45:46 pm »

hmmm...well i just accessed it no problem. but you are right, i didnt think it would be all that popular. i need to get a hit counter on there to see how much traffic im pulling in.

DrewKaree · « **Reply #142 on:** July 29, 2004, 04:13:38 pm »

Quote from: MameMe on July 12, 2004, 12:18:27 pm

SWEET News ! You owe her big time now.

Dude, that is SO not the way to work your marriage. Just ask Crashwg

If he owes her, then all he owes her is to let her beat him at StreetFighter or something...she knew beforehand that he was building it, so she HAD to know sooner or later it was gonna come into the house!

Anyhoo, yeah, your bandwidth has exceeded the limits...mebbe think about having Saint host your page or something...I know how it goes, now that you're done, it's the last/furthest thing from your mind. We all appreciate your posting pictures as you go along, and thanks for even thinking of measuring it off for us. Now, more foot porn, that's something we can do without

p.s. Congratulations on the successful marriage. Did you remember to register @ Happs for gifts?

hulkster · « **Reply #143 on:** July 29, 2004, 05:35:05 pm »

Quote

p.s. Congratulations on the successful marriage. Did you remember to register @ Happs for gifts?

oh man, i thought i had registered everywhere! that would have been sweet to get joysticks instead of glassware. oh well. yeah i have like 33mb of bandwidth but im not sure if its for like the whole week or just that day. ive never really hosted a site that people go to more than i thought they would so this is new territory to me. i did the website submission thing but i havent seen my site on the examples page so i dont know what to do.

hulkster · « **Reply #144 on:** October 05, 2005, 10:49:38 am »

okay, so it's been a while...almost a year and a half actually. but for some reason i got motivated and started messing with my cab some more. in the past few days, ive done quite a bit.

ive added a piano hinge or whatever you call it to my cp...now allowing me to open it up and look at the wiring without having to prop the cp top on the cp itself. yeah it sucked i know.

ive added a volume control button that works great.

also, in an attempt to stablize my wobbly cp base (for those of you who remember, i was having problems with that) ive added two wood slats to run along the bottom of the cp and monitor base. its "helped" to stabilize but its still wobbly. im open to other suggestions other than the obvious (add weights to the bottom!) to make it more stable. ill take some pics tonight and post them here to show all ive done.

my next project other than to stabilize the cp, is to make two shelves so my speakers can sit on them. when i first built it, i had invisioned just getting some really strong velcro stuff and sticking the speakers to the wood. well they kept falling off during gaming and it would scare the crap out of me. so im going to build a couple of little shelves (that sounds gay...awww little shelves...so cute) to put the speakers on. im also wanting to build a nice bezel around the monitor as my make shift bezel of black posterboard attached to the tv kept falling down. yeah it sucked but oh well. i want to make a nice permanent solution here.

suggestions would be nice, and ill be posting pics soon. thanks for reading!

hulkster · « **Reply #145 on:** August 01, 2007, 02:47:14 pm »

howdy! wow, its been a long time since i posted here.

just a little update....

ive made just about all the modifications i can make to my cab, well, that i want to anyway as far as construction goes. my latest addition has been more of a software/pc addition. ive upgraded the ram in my mame pc, and installed Mala as my FE. i havent completed everything yet, but ive added daphne, zinc, and atari 2600 emu's to my cab.

my next project is to make some sweet layouts in photoshop which will take a while, but will be worth it in the end i think. my old mamewah layout was basically pixelhuggers work, but i think im actually going to take the time to create my own layout this time around. it may turn out crappy, but it may not...we'll see.

anyway, for anyone that cares....and for anyone that doesnt care....hope you enjoyed reading!

p.s. - NO, i still dont have any plans, and probably wont have ever. for one reason, i dont really want to go back and measure everything all over again. for another reason, there are better dynamo/showcase style plans out there that are more official and probably better than mine now, so i always point everyone that asks to that. sorry!

Knievel · « **Reply #146 on:** August 01, 2007, 03:15:06 pm »

The Hulkster lives!! How's that jukebox coming.

hulkster · « **Reply #147 on:** August 01, 2007, 03:38:22 pm »

Quote from: Knievel on August 01, 2007, 03:15:06 pm

The Hulkster lives!! How's that jukebox coming.

ha, well i have a pc with all my mp3s on it...and i started to config the jukebox software, but i quit messing with that for a while and started working on my cab....and well....you see where i am now. i started talking about getting a touch screen and my wife about had a hernia, so if i did build a juke, it would probably look like crap. so i nixed that idea....for now...

Knievel · « **Reply #148 on:** August 01, 2007, 04:53:59 pm »

Quote from: hulkster on August 01, 2007, 03:38:22 pm

i started talking about getting a touch screen and my wife about had a hernia

Hahaha...ouch

Green Giant · « **Reply #149 on:** August 01, 2007, 05:18:50 pm »

Quote from: Knievel on August 01, 2007, 04:53:59 pm

Quote from: hulkster on August 01, 2007, 03:38:22 pm
i started talking about getting a touch screen and my wife about had a hernia

Hahaha...ouch

That sucks, when I told mine about a touchscreen jukebox, she told me to go out and make one already. She keeps pestering me to make it already.

hulkster · « **Reply #150 on:** July 23, 2010, 01:42:32 pm »

sup everyone. it's been a LONG time since i posted about my cab that i created in 2004. its been sitting in my rec room at my house and getting used every so often. my son is now 2 years old, so all of my free time is gone basically...but now that he's getting a little older, i find myself with a little more each day. i'm sure that will go away as well eventually

anyway, we recently decided to try to sell our house and move. as a result of trying to get the house cleaned up and "staged", i had to move my cab out of the house and back into the basement at my mom's house where it was built. whoa....yeah a little ironic dontcha think? i took it apart (as i designed it to be for easy moving) and i plan on reassembling it in my mom's basement so my nephews can play when they visit.

all of this moving of the arcade and whatnot got me thinking though...."what if our new house won't have room for my huge showcase cab?". so here i am...

i'm thinking of selling my Mamestrosity. i spent about $1500 on everything, so i would like to make around $2500 or so. anyway, i planned on taking whatever money i made on selling it and building a new upright cab to replace it

. so all is not lost, but i wanted to ask the opinion of everyone here on whether or not i should sell it.

ive learned a lot over time and i think whatever new cab i build will be much more professional and clean than my previous attempts. but i wont build a thing unless i can sell what i have. what do you guys think? sell or not to sell?

Franco B · « **Reply #151 on:** July 23, 2010, 01:51:10 pm »

You spent $1500 but want $2500 back?

Did you get that the right way round? Either way I can't see it selling. If its worth that much to you then keep it.

hulkster · « **Reply #152 on:** July 23, 2010, 01:58:07 pm »

Quote from: Franco B on July 23, 2010, 01:51:10 pm

You spent $1500 but want $2500 back?

Did you get that the right way round? Either way I can't see it selling. If its worth that much to you then keep it.

took me 2-3 months to build....i thought that was worth SOMETHING.

maybe $2500 is a little much eh? what do you think it's worth then?

drventure · « **Reply #153 on:** July 23, 2010, 02:50:51 pm »

Can't buy it but dang I like showcase cabs. If I had the space, That might be my third next project

hulkster · « **Reply #154 on:** July 23, 2010, 03:04:50 pm »

Quote from: drventure on July 23, 2010, 02:50:51 pm

Can't buy it but dang I like showcase cabs. If I had the space, That might be my third next project

yeah they are really awesome if you have the room. golden tee, 4 player beatem ups, etc. i'm a fairly big guy (6'3" 220lbs) so i need my elbow room. plus they really aren't that difficult to build.

leapinlew · « **Reply #155 on:** July 23, 2010, 04:06:16 pm »

I've sold my fair share of cabs. I think you'd be lucky to get 1k for it. Of course, it depends a lot on where you live.

Thats not bad though. Think of it this way, it will be a lot cheaper to build your replacement cab and you were able to enjoy it for the last 5-6 years. The market isn't the same as it was in 2004. People are pretty much giving away CRT TV's, which used to be one of the major expenses.

hulkster · « **Reply #156 on:** July 23, 2010, 04:31:51 pm »

Quote from: leapinlew on July 23, 2010, 04:06:16 pm

I've sold my fair share of cabs. I think you'd be lucky to get 1k for it. Of course, it depends a lot on where you live.

Thats not bad though. Think of it this way, it will be a lot cheaper to build your replacement cab and you were able to enjoy it for the last 5-6 years. The market isn't the same as it was in 2004. People are pretty much giving away CRT TV's, which used to be one of the major expenses.

good point....i may drop the price pretty low and just make what i can off of it. and i've just stumbled upon (yet again) Knievel's designs and retro fits. i forgot i have a gutted dynamo cab in my mom's garage thats just been sitting there waiting for me to have more money to do something with it

at first i thought i wouldnt be able to make it a professional build like i want, but after seeing Knievel's stuff, i've been inspired again. so any money i did make would go to the new retrofit, and luckily i already have buttons, joysticks, etc to make it happen. now that i think about it, i could spend more money on the artwork and extra touches to make it really stand out.

*sigh* this forum is a black of hole of both doom and awesomeness at the same time. now i remember why i spent hours here


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