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The corners have exposed wood due to the the cuts. To cover these up I use metal corner strips. These will also provide protection against wear and they even look like like pinball legs.



Now onto hooking up the buttons.
To keep the wires in place I screwed in a few velcro strips.


For the wires I repurposed an old data cable I had laying around.


These crimping tools make make the connections very clean and serviceable.




Controller board is hold in place using some screws.




Creating a hole for the power switch and receptacle.




I'm using a 3 socket power to power the devices on the inside.




Making sure everything is insulated.



To keep the control panel from opening up I use a latch and an angle bracket for it to hook on to. When I have the machine open from the rear side, I can just manage to reach it.



I've mounted speaker grills, unfortunately the chrome does not match that of the corner strips, but I'm not making a fuss about it because I want to keep costs down.


And this is the final look.


On it's back with screen still up.


And with the screen down for better viewing angle.

I bought a piece from a 1920 Tecla model 30 crystal radio. Trying to restore it.
I know this site is not geared for that but I was wondering if there is a site like this one dedicated to that subject, that i could join.
I am a member of a facebook group, but I like this format much more.
Thanks, and sorry for not checking in for awhile.

Really thank you for the tip to make FFB working! I can confirm it works!
To help others, I will try to clarify the procedure:
In Mame, once the game is launched, use Tab to:
      -  go the machine configuration and choose Twin
       - go to the Service menu through the DIP switch menu and activate Wheel Steering Force (or something similar). You can also choose configure several things such as the color of the car.
You need of course to have FFB plugin properly configured for Mame. You also need to activate outputs for windows in mame.ini. At least this is what I have on my PCs.
Good luck!

Hi

I'm having a slight problem with one of my GM PC's.

I'm getting random stutters in games , PC should be powerful enough.

Q9550 overclocked
HD 7570
4gb Ram

I've tested games in FBNeo and I get no stutters so only seems to be mame.

Please help.

Thanks

I'm running it through a JPAC on a Sega Astro City.

How do you use it ?

Wow, that would be a loss. I could get the Arcade VGA, is it pci ex?

Is it not needed for the random dynamic resolutions in mame.ini:
monitor custom
Otherwise it's stuck with the 10x or so pre-set hard coded resolutions?

Lords of Exile

Steam
Lords of Exile
704x448 Native resolution
384x240@60 Downscaled

Here works better with 352x224@60

What is a wall wart by the way? Do you mean the wall plug?

A "wall wart" is a power supply that plugs directly into the outlet with no cord between the outlet prongs and the body of the power supply.

Wall wart:
 

Not a wall wart:

If it can't dim that is fine. Just being able to turn it on/off would be great.

Here's an old thread with some useful background info about solid state relays:
https://forum.arcadecontrols.com/index.php/topic,137899.0/all.html

A relay board like this should work for your application.

https://www.amazon.com/HiLetgo-Channel-optocoupler-Support-Trigger/dp/B00LW15A4W/

5v to DC+.  Ground to DC-.  PacLED64 control channel to IN. ("31" in the example above)


12v from the wall wart to NO (or COM).  Red wire from the light to COM (or NO).  Set the jumper to trigger on low.


When LEDBlinky tells the PacLED64 to turn the light on for that control channel, the channel goes low which tells the relay to enable which connects COM to NO.


Scott

PC1: Ryzen 5 5600X - 32 GB DDR4 RAM - RTX 2060 SUPER (GALAX)
PC2: Ryzen 5 5600G - 32 GB DDR4 RAM - GTX 1660 SUPER (GALAX)
MAME 60fps 500mhz version of Bigtymer781.

I uninstalled the TAP files and did a new installation:

1 - I installed "OpenVPN-2.6.9-I001-amd64" (other versions didn't work including the latest 2.6.10). I restarted the PCs.
https://openvpn.net/community-downloads/

2 - I installed "tap-windows-9.24.7-I601-Win10". I restarted the PCs.
https://build.openvpn.net/downloads/releases/

Everything is working perfectly. There are no disconnections and the oscillations of the cars are almost zero. I hope it works out for you too. I'm grateful to everyone! Thank you very much!

EDIT: Obviously the fact that I changed my Core i5 to a Ryzen 5 (PC2) was essential, but even so there were constant disconnections.