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Title: My first cab pics - 99% done
Post by: shfifty on January 20, 2011, 10:25:16 pm: Finally some pics of my cab - 99% complete. If you cant tell by the pics, i mainly play street fighter. I'm Omitting pics of the interior and back, because i havnt cut the back panel door yet, and also because the interior is kind of being used as a storage compartment for my spare screen and all the other spare crap. As for the build pics - i might upload another time, but i dont have many. And to be honest, this project already took enough effort out of me, right now i would rather play it than write about it!

For the specs:

Cabinet:
- 18 mm mdf everything
- Black T-molding
- Painted (roller) with oil based satin finish
- 2x 120 mm exhaust fans
- Lockable, discreet keyboard drawer below the CP

Marquee:
- Printed on polyester film
- 2x 300mm 12v cold cathode tubes for illumination
- marquee sanwiched with 2x 3mm sheets hardened glass
- Retained with PVC window edging, covered in black electrical tape instead of painting

Display:
- 21" sony trinitron CRT vga - Yep, already i want a bigger arcade crt to fill out the cab. Maybe in the future.
- Decased and using my own MDF mount
- Running in single scan mode with native resolutions where available

Bezel
- Foam posterboard covered in contact paper was stuck over the monitor
- And finally a 6mm tinted hardened glass outer layer with spraypainted back

Sound
- Sound blaster vibra 128 sound card
- Logitech x240's
- Wired up to some pioneer kevlar dome 2 way 4" car speakers
- Wired in an external potentiometer with an anodized aluminium volume knob just below the marquee

Control Panel
- 18mm MDF base
- 16mm MDF Top, polyester film printed overlay and 3mm perspex on top
- T-molding edging
- 2x sanwa JLF's top mounted, with square restrictor gates
- 6 sanwa OBSN-30's for each player, in astro city layout. (heads up to slagcoin for the layout)
- 8x seimitsu 24mm screw ins (1 & 2P start, 4x admin and 2x pinball flipper/coin credit buttons)
- X-arcade encoder

Coin Door
- Bally Williams double entry door, flush mounted
- 2x imonex quarter mechs, modified to accept aus $1
- LED globes for reject buttons
- Theres a switch wired in to enable or disable the pinball flipper buttons which act as credit buttons. So i can capitalise of my friends if need be...

Hardware
- P4 1.8
- 512 MB ram
- Sound blaster vibra 128
- 80 GB HDD
- Theres some more dust and stuff in there too

Software
- AdvanceMenu FE (DOS)
- AdvanceMame+ (DOS) - Yes it even plays street fighter III 3rd strike in dos
- Boot time is about 20 secs straight into the FE

Anything i would change/add?
- a slightly smaller or no SFZ3 logo on the CP
- Maybe get rid of the capcom logo on the CP
- Definitely a bigger screen, but only if its an arcade CRT - I love the real scanlines
- A dedicated 4-way would be nice
- Side art hopefully coming soon
- I should have used 2 of the admin buttons for a 7th button for each player - to replicate the neo geo layout. I dont really need 4 admin buttons

Thats all i can think of for now! If theres specific information needed on any aspect of the cab i will be happy to supply. Also i can upload more/better pics of various parts of the cab if anyone requests.
Title: Re: My first cab pics - 99% done
Post by: shfifty on January 20, 2011, 10:28:49 pm: more pics
Title: Re: My first cab pics - 99% done
Post by: DCsegaDH on January 21, 2011, 07:19:45 pm: Nice artwork, my favorite Street Fighter game!
Title: Re: My first cab pics - 99% done
Post by: Creeper on January 21, 2011, 07:31:50 pm: Looks great, clean build. :applaud:
Title: Re: My first cab pics - 99% done
Post by: Erik on February 01, 2011, 08:53:56 pm: Looks great! Neat to see dos being used. What's the width of this cab?
Title: Re: My first cab pics - 99% done
Post by: MagicManPA on February 02, 2011, 10:33:22 am: Looks great. Awesome job.
Title: Re: My first cab pics - 99% done
Post by: Cynicaster on February 02, 2011, 12:47:19 pm: Thumbs up, great work. :cheers:

Love the volume knob idea. On my cab I'm going to have to remove a magnet-mounted speaker grille to access the volume knob. Oh well, I like that better than software control.
Title: Re: My first cab pics - 99% done
Post by: shfifty on February 02, 2011, 07:05:36 pm: thanks for all the feedback!

Quote from: Erik on February 01, 2011, 08:53:56 pm
Looks great! Neat to see dos being used. What's the width of this cab?

The internal width is 25 inches (635mm)

Quote from: Cynicaster on February 02, 2011, 12:47:19 pm
Love the volume knob idea. On my cab I'm going to have to remove a magnet-mounted speaker grille to access the volume knob. Oh well, I like that better than software control.

Do it, its totallly worth the extra effort. The only slight problem i have found with mine is that when playing with 2 players, i would have to reach my arm in front of player 2's view to reach the knob. But i can live with that!
Title: Re: My first cab pics - 99% done
Post by: dandare on February 02, 2011, 07:23:15 pm: Very nice cab mate! Really like the artwork, and capcom is a one of my favorite logos so I'd keep it!
Top job!!
Title: Re: My first cab pics - 99% done
Post by: SNAAKE on February 03, 2011, 04:20:07 pm: even after all these years people still manage build SF themed cabs. looks good very clean :cheers: