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Title: I thought the day would never come that I'd be done!!! It has!!!!
Post by: djsting on October 17, 2003, 01:12:32 pm
Well it has been a LONG road but I have finally reached the destination!!

I've removed the pix and replaced them with a link to my arcade photo album to make it easier on the lower bandwidth users.

http://www.pape.ws/gallery/v/Our_Life_Together/Our+Hobbies/Allan_s+Hobbies/MAME+Arcade+System/It_s+Done/ (http://www.pape.ws/gallery/v/Our_Life_Together/Our+Hobbies/Allan_s+Hobbies/MAME+Arcade+System/It_s+Done/)

Title: Re:I thought the day would never come that I'd be done!!! It has!!!!
Post by: Shieldwolf on October 17, 2003, 01:38:15 pm
WOW!!! Looks great I am so jealous!

Very clean and sweet looking cp.


Shieldwolf
Title: Re:I thought the day would never come that I'd be done!!! It has!!!!
Post by: SirPeale on October 17, 2003, 02:43:41 pm
Man, resize those images!  Not so much the bandwidth, but it throws the page completely off.

Put height=xxx width=xxx (make the xxx numbers) in the img tag to resize.

Otherwise...nicely done!
Title: Re:I thought the day would never come that I'd be done!!! It has!!!!
Post by: MameMaster! on October 17, 2003, 02:56:03 pm
Those are the world's biggest pictures!~

Great Job though...but get a larger screen soon!...your cb is too good
for only a 17 incher!

The MameMaster  8)
Title: Re:I thought the day would never come that I'd be done!!! It has!!!!
Post by: Ghoward on October 17, 2003, 02:59:28 pm
Very nice looking cab....I like it alot.

Gary
Title: Re:I thought the day would never come that I'd be done!!! It has!!!!
Post by: MiKman on October 17, 2003, 05:43:08 pm
Cool looking cabinet, can we get a couple of shots from the side?  It looks like an awesome design. Love the control panel for a 4 player one it looks really clean.
Title: Re:I thought the day would never come that I'd be done!!! It has!!!!
Post by: anitabill on October 17, 2003, 09:38:11 pm
Love that control panel. I hope those wheels lock.  :o
Title: Re:I thought the day would never come that I'd be done!!! It has!!!!
Post by: paigeoliver on October 20, 2003, 07:04:20 am
Hee hee, a $400 control panel and what (looks like) a brand new $100+ coin door on a cabinet with a $40 monitor.   :'(

Wax on. Wax off. Balance is the key to everything Danielson.  ;D
Title: Re:I thought the day would never come that I'd be done!!! It has!!!!
Post by: Zeitgeist on October 20, 2003, 12:51:31 pm
Great Job!
Title: Re:I thought the day would never come that I'd be done!!! It has!!!!
Post by: gthyb on October 22, 2003, 06:48:03 pm
your CP overlay looks great.  I'm trying to design something similar.  Do you have a link to the CP that originally inspired you?

thanks,

Ryan
Title: Re:I thought the day would never come that I'd be done!!! It has!!!!
Post by: kujina on October 24, 2003, 11:07:33 pm
Hee hee, a $400 control panel and what (looks like) a brand new $100+ coin door on a cabinet with a $40 monitor.   :'(

Wax on. Wax off. Balance is the key to everything Danielson.  ;D


LOL good point.
Title: Re:I thought the day would never come that I'd be done!!! It has!!!!
Post by: motorfish on October 25, 2003, 12:59:00 am
Looks beautiful! I'm honored that I was able to provide you with some inspiration for the CP. It looks great!!!
Title: Re:I thought the day would never come that I'd be done!!! It has!!!!
Post by: Frostillicus on October 26, 2003, 10:08:10 am
Wow that turned out great!  Yep I did the CP overlay - like he said it's inspired from motorfish's, which is simply an excellent overlay.  djsting was a great guy to work with :)  I'm really glad it printed well and looks like the controls match up perfectly.  Very clean cab - it's not overpowering yet it's 4 players with a trackball/spiner.   Great layout of controls and very nice cab overall  :D

Title: Re:I thought the day would never come that I'd be done!!! It has!!!!
Post by: Donger on November 13, 2003, 01:49:40 am
Hey Motorfish, you got a link to your cab?  I'd like to see it!

*edit*
Ack, just found it, sorry...you both should change your profile and include your site in there.  The cabs look great!
Title: Re:I thought the day would never come that I'd be done!!! It has!!!!
Post by: SirPoonga on November 13, 2003, 03:23:45 am
Wow that turned out great!  Yep I did the CP overlay - like he said it's inspired from motorfish's, which is simply an excellent overlay.  djsting was a great guy to work with :)  I'm really glad it printed well and looks like the controls match up perfectly.  Very clean cab - it's not overpowering yet it's 4 players with a trackball/spiner.   Great layout of controls and very nice cab overall  :D



I should have you do my overlay!
Pretty cool.  
Title: Re:I thought the day would never come that I'd be done!!! It has!!!!
Post by: iwillfearnoevil on November 13, 2003, 11:17:24 am
awesome cab!
Title: Re:I thought the day would never come that I'd be done!!! It has!!!!
Post by: soslo on December 04, 2003, 01:10:20 pm
nice work
Title: Re:I thought the day would never come that I'd be done!!! It has!!!!
Post by: djsting on March 23, 2004, 09:46:36 pm
Ok, there have been requests for pix of the inside of the completed cab.
Title: Re:I thought the day would never come that I'd be done!!! It has!!!!
Post by: djsting on March 23, 2004, 09:54:32 pm
Now you have seen all the pix I wanted to give a little additional explaination as to what all it does.

I of course have MAME installed and running, but I have also put on Daphine and have all the laser disc games like Dragon's Lair!

In addition to this the computer is wired to my video distribution system so we can not only watch cable TV on it but also our DVD player and our TiVo which are both in the living room (across the house).

To top off the high tech part of this it is part of our home network which means it not only has access to the web but also to our fileserver which houses our entire MP3 collection (every piece of music we own has been ripped to MP3) which is massive since I used to DJ and I'm using eJukebox as the frontend for that.

Truely an entertainment center!
Title: Re:I thought the day would never come that I'd be done!!! It has!!!!
Post by: Goz on March 25, 2004, 12:24:03 am
You did a great job!

I am working on one based off of the same cabinet (KOAM) and a 25" monitor fits perfectly.  I dig the CP, it's giving me some idead on how I'll likely proceed with mine. With any luck mine will be ready to announce in the next 2 weeks.

-Goz

Title: Re:I thought the day would never come that I'd be done!!! It has!!!!
Post by: spidermonkey on March 25, 2004, 01:36:37 am
Nice looking rig dude.
Title: Re:I thought the day would never come that I'd be done!!! It has!!!!
Post by: djsting on April 19, 2004, 01:11:53 pm
I have just been informed that my arcade has won an award!!  Here's a link to the award site:  http://www.mameworld.net/massive/Awards/Artwork/artwork.html
Title: Re:I thought the day would never come that I'd be done!!! It has!!!!
Post by: steve_pss on April 19, 2004, 02:05:37 pm
thats a monster of a cab, i have to say i dont go for the mega cabs but if i were to build one i'd be rather happy if it came out like yours. nice work indeed!.
Title: Re: I thought the day would never come that I'd be done!!! It has!!!!
Post by: djsting on May 25, 2005, 01:47:27 pm
That little 17" monitor was replaced with a 21" several months ago and it looks sooo much better!!

I would love to go larger but that's the bigest that will fit. 
Title: Re: I thought the day would never come that I'd be done!!! It has!!!!
Post by: Veinman on May 26, 2005, 08:00:26 am
Congratulations!
Title: Re: I thought the day would never come that I'd be done!!! It has!!!!
Post by: Timstuff on May 26, 2005, 03:30:18 pm
Well it has been a LONG road but I have finally reached the destination!!  My MAME cabinet is done and a HUGE hit with my nephews!  I have included some pix of the completed project for all to see. 

Credits:

First let me say thank you to everyone here for being so helpful and easy to work with.

Second, many people's designs have been used to help me with mine, I can't even think of who they all were.

As for the artwork, mine is patterned after motorfish's but is still completely custom.

Which brings me to the person who did the artwork for me...I can not thank you enough Frostillicus for the wonderful job you did and being so willing to take my money and so incredibly easy to work with!! :)  Without you and the artwork this would not be the same project!



Now on to what you all want...THE PIX!!!


(http://www.pape.ws/hosted_pix/completed_mame_cabinet/Image003.jpg)

That's only a 17" monitor in there for now as I can not afford a larger one just yet, but there will be a bigger one put in at a later time.


(http://www.pape.ws/hosted_pix/completed_mame_cabinet/Image010.jpg)

(http://www.pape.ws/hosted_pix/completed_mame_cabinet/Image007.jpg)

This is a GREAT shot of the artwork!! Yes this is modeled after someonelse's design but it was completely custom made for me.


(http://www.pape.ws/hosted_pix/completed_mame_cabinet/Image009.jpg)

This is a picture with the control panel open (it's hinged) which gives a great view of all the controls.


Nice machine you've got there. :)