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Title: Completed my first cab today.
Post by: dpeeples on October 12, 2005, 10:25:29 pm

Hello all been a luker here for a long time but this is my first post.   I finished my first mame cab today.  Its a converted Willaims Hit the Ice cab.   I repainted the cab, coin doors, new molding, marquee.  The control panel is all new.  The one that was on there was unusable.   I am running and Athlon XP 2800+, Win XP, Mamewah, Mini-pac.   The CP Overlay I got from Classic Arcade Grafix and I cant recommend there stuff enough top notch.

Here are 2 pics of my cab.

Dave

Title: Re: Completed my first cab today.
Post by: arcadefever on October 12, 2005, 11:07:37 pm

good work !!!! nice cab .... :o nice slot machine too  :angel:

Title: Re: Completed my first cab today.
Post by: Hildy_42 on October 13, 2005, 09:05:24 am

How long did it take you to complete it?  Just wondering because it looks great.  Nice work.

Title: Re: Completed my first cab today.
Post by: motorfish on October 13, 2005, 01:58:37 pm

My only critique is that I would've swaped positions of the spinner and the trackball. Other than that, it's a nice, simple, and very functional control panel.

Title: Re: Completed my first cab today.
Post by: dpeeples on October 13, 2005, 02:02:35 pm

The cab took me about 30 hours to do the painting, new molding, cleaning it up, repaint / rebuild coin doors, cut, design, build new control panel, wiring coin door lights to the PC power supply, marquee and light setup etc.

Title: Re: Completed my first cab today.
Post by: dpeeples on October 13, 2005, 02:06:43 pm

I REALLY REALLY considered swaping the trackball and the spinner but there just was not enough room between the sticks for the TB mounting kit and when I tried using it in a fashion that would mean I would have to route out my own mounting you would hit your hand on the right stick alot so hence the current setup.   I figure someday I will upgrade to Dave Cab 3.0 and get like a dynamo cab with a huge panel on it and a 25-27" screen and then I will put the TB lower.    We play alot of Crystal Castles, Marble Madness, and World Class Bowling on it and so far working great.  Not into Golden Tee that much but have got it working and played it some also with out issue.

Dave

Title: Re: Completed my first cab today.
Post by: dpeeples on October 13, 2005, 02:08:39 pm

Also the panel is kinda deceiving the cab is only 23" across but the panel flares out past the cab on both sides up to 26" at the top point so I cant move the sticks/buttons any further to the left right then they are now.

Dave

Title: Re: Completed my first cab today.
Post by: Ldsfunaz on October 13, 2005, 08:09:05 pm

good work, i like it alot,

i dont really understand the double coin door thing, or am i missing something?

keep it up
mike

Title: Re: Completed my first cab today.
Post by: Mark70 on October 14, 2005, 12:57:44 pm

Quote from: Ldsfunaz on October 13, 2005, 08:09:05 pm

good work, i like it alot,

i dont really understand the double coin door thing, or am i missing something?

keep it up
mike

My guess is future expansion... 4 player cp.  CPs come on and off without a whole cab rebuild.

Title: Re: Completed my first cab today.
Post by: dpeeples on October 15, 2005, 08:58:17 am

The cabinet was a 4 player williams hit the ice before I redid it and I think it was some kinda 4 player game before that also so the 2 doors are because of the 4 player games that were in it in the past.

The button above the coin doors (blue kinda hidden) was put in by someone else and was white.  I changed to blue and wired it to pause for mame.   It was wired to all 4 coin mechs and added credits to all 4 players at once.

Dave