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Vicious Burger:

After I did my first MAME cabinet into an already butchered Pac-Man cab, I got this Cherry Master game for free from someone, that was just sitting in their garage and she was going to toss it. I told her I'd take it and make a MAME arcade machine out of it. Woohoo freee !! I'm guessing its from the late 80's,I can't find any date stamps on it anywhere. I'm going to post pics of my progress as i go along with the project.

Here are some pics i took the day i got it:

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Nov 30th : Removed the old monitor, mainboard amd buttons from the CP. Some buttons will be re-used on new CP for admin etc.  Bought a used PC and 17" LCD to go inside,re-installed XP,and put all the necessary MAME files on there. All works fine. I'll be taking the components out of the PC case and fitting them inside the cabinet.

Dec 1st : Ordered buttons,joysticks and a Keywiz 40ST from GroovyGameGear to hook them all up. I'll probably hook up the coin mech switch to it also.
Strengthened the cab up a bit, it was a bit rickety,a bunch of the screws were not tightened properly. I also fixed 2 of the adjustable feet which had come off, re-fitted the top rear hinge which was not fixed well because the screws had ripped out of the compressed oatmeal board at the top of the rear,so a cut a new piece of board and screwed it back to the new piece.
Bought new barrel locks/key sets to replace the old ones that have no keys. Also bought plexiglass to replace the original piece.
I also fitted the 17" LCD. I had to unscrew and lower the original platform that the old monitor sat on, in order to get it to fit. At first I was going to try to install the LCD without the stand,but I found that if i lowered the wood platform,I could fix the LCD to it on its stand and it would be sturdier this way. Here is a pic of the monitor installed



More updates to come


Funnel:

This looks awesome! Keep the updates coming

Vicious Burger:


--- Quote from: Funnel on December 02, 2009, 10:26:43 am ---This looks awesome! Keep the updates coming

--- End quote ---

Thanks Funnel.

Today I took off all the front, rear and top panels,removed the coin door,ticket printer,bill acceptor and wires etc,removed the monitor, sanded the panels down,primed and painted them black,same colour as my 1st cab project because i had paint left over !
Masked off the chrome trim on the T molding and painted the brown bits to black,and left the chrome trim as is. Now the T molding is black and chrome,looks much better. You can't really tell in the pics because it still had the masking tape on there.
Also sanded, primed and painted the cabinet sides,and other parts that will be visible when all bits are put back together. I am leaving unseen bits unpainted.
My joysticks/buttons etc should be here tomorrow or Saturday,and I will start work on the Control Panel,which will be a bit bigger than the original.

Here are a few more pics.
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Pic of the panels i removed and painted,and the PC i am going to butcher to go inside it.


Vicious Burger:

Cool so my joysticks and stuff arrived today. I went and got a piece of kitchen countertop to use for the control panel,it has a nice rounded nose on it. Its a light colour so i'll probably paint it to match the rest of the cab. Installed speakers in the flip-up top of the cabinet (Basically the only place they would fit). Gutted all the old components and wiring from the inside of the cab,I have no need for them,so if anyone wants it all let me know and you can have it for the price of shipping and a six-pack of beer ! (Includes the monitor,mainboard,power supply etc,all of it,see pic below)

CP parts,woohoo !!


Speakers (The holes look ugly,I need to tidy them up and fill in the gaps with..umm, filler!)


Wiring and stuff to anyone who wants it:


Started to put parts in:




Vicious Burger:

More progress. Mounted the keyboard in the lower drop-down door. Attached with sticky back velcro,so can be removed and put back easily. Mouse also stores in that compartment.
I have cut out the control panel and the holes for the buttons and joysticks. See pics below. (CP will be painted) I put the original screen bezel in backwards to give an idea of what it would look like with a black surround. I'm going to see if i can get a vinyl sticker art made to place on the new plexi bezel, hopefully it wont cost too much, but for a one-off it might run too pricey in which case I'd probably just paint a black surround.
You can see I am re-using some of the original lit buttons for the menu. I got some replacement bulbs for them and i will be connecting them to the power supply.  Also put a new bulb in for the coin slot light-up.  The joysticks are Happ Competition 8-way. I couldn't justify the cost of going for expensive ones for this build.



 

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