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Title: Got a bit derailed, finally finishing up the bartop
Post by: Charlie97L on January 15, 2011, 01:24:07 pm: Hey guys.

I got derailed by various house repairs, but I'm finally back to finish the bartop for my (now) wife.

I have all/most of the "arcade" hardware, and I'm going to be using a 3.0GHz Intel single core. Mostly really classic games, I think street fighter II/tmnt/simpsons would likely be the most demanding game that would run.

I have a 19" lcd ready to go.

Now, the main thing I need help with is a bartop kit. I don't have access to any woodworking tools, so this has to be pretty plug and play.

Can you recommend a kit? Preferably one with a monitor mount included, again, I don't really have access to woodworking stuff here in DC.

I want to be able to have a joystick - six player buttons - joystick setup, as the wife loves pac man and prefers to control that with her right hand, unlike most games... do you think that's a good layout?

Thanks!
Charlie
Title: Re: Got a bit derailed, finally finishing up the bartop
Post by: BobA on January 15, 2011, 03:48:09 pm: Here is a tread for a bartop I built using a kit from PeteDiak in the buy and sell forum.

http://forum.arcadecontrols.com/index.php?topic=106496.0 (http://forum.arcadecontrols.com/index.php?topic=106496.0)
Title: Re: Got a bit derailed, finally finishing up the bartop
Post by: Charlie97L on January 22, 2011, 10:53:22 am: Thanks.

I was initially planning on using the MAMEROOM kit. I have like, zero power tools or room to do stuff like that in our townhouse.

Was the PeteDiak kit really plug in play or did you have to do a lot of fiddling?
Title: Re: Got a bit derailed, finally finishing up the bartop
Post by: BobA on February 24, 2011, 11:22:30 pm: Not really any fiddling but I had to do my own CP and decide if I wanted switches and fan on the back. You will have to figure that out on almost any cab you build.