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Main => Project Announcements => Topic started by: MK3FAN on February 27, 2006, 05:42:20 pm
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Here is my finished MORTAL KOMBAT 3 Cabinet Project. It is a mame project only instead of the traditional MAME look, I Built MK3 as an homage to my favorite game of all time. I included some pics. Hope you like. Let me know what you think. Thanks - Mike.
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Looks good! Nice job.
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Looks good! Nice job.
What he said ;)
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Beautiful! Great job.
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Great job on the cab! where did you get all of your MK3 stickers at?
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The sideart I got from classicarcadegrafix.com. All the control panel pieces, the overlay, the marquee, the front and side control panel box stickers and the bezel stickers all came in a MK3 restoration kit I got on e-bay.
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The machine stayed this way for a while, then I got into MK2 pretty badly and just HAD to convert it to MK2. I had to drill out the run button through the metal MK2 control panel that I got NOS from e-bay and I added plexiglass cut to the size of the medallion sideart to keep it nice. Here are some pics. IT IS THE SAME MACHINE. This is a MAME cabinet that I built from scatch and I put version 1.0.2 on it and the full 8 DVD set of Roms. Can't play all of them because I have no trackball due to me wanting to make my mame cabinet look like a dedicated MK macine. I'll probably keep it this way for a while, but who knows.
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NOT trying to sound negative, your machine looks very nice, very well built... but isn't the side art on the MKII supposed to cover the whole side? :)
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You are right. It DOES, but you could either get the medallion side art OR the full side art. When I ordered them, I didn't have the measurements of my machine and just ordered what I knew would fit.
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Nice work. MK2 is a much better game, and IMHO better looking cab.
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Very nicely done! I'm a big fan of MK2 and have a lot of memories playing it when I was growing up. I have a dedicated MK2 and it's lots of fun. Your cab looks very nice! :)
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Thanks Guru and everyone
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Dam good looking cab. Very nice work.
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I'm very impressed with your cab. Nice woodworking skills! ;)
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wow...that's a great job on a scratch built cab.
That's too funny though that you "downgraded" your cab to MK2 (converting your own cab!).....sweet. Nice job.
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That looks incredible ! :o :o :o :o :o
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Thanks everyone. I actually built the machine 2 inches taller than the stock dedicated cab because I am 6'3" and always had to bend over playing the actual one. So I built this one taller so I can stand up. Worked out great. I can take some more detailed pics if anyone wants to see the inside or is building a similar cab. Let me know. I ended up spending just over $2500 to build this cab including TWO mointors because my first one, the picture tube got crushed during shipment and UPS would not pay to replace it so I had to buy another one from Wells Gardner. That alone put me at around $1600. I also have a nintendo emulator with over 900 NES games, a SNES emulator with over 300 SNES games and various PC games on the machine as well. All total I have around 7500 games playable on various systems on the machine. I'll never say "There's nothing to do" ever again.
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Excellent Cabinet!!! Great attention to detail.
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Beautiful! That's amazing. One odd question, what kind of speakers are those? I love the way they look
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Looks awesome, but you REALLY need the full sideart, which is IMO one of the best looking sidearts in the history of arcade cabs... Raiden just looks too bad---I'm attempting to get by the auto-censor and should be beaten after I re-read the rules-- with the lighting coming off of his hand IMO.
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Very nice!
Here is how I put a trackball in a custom CP for my MKII. Left the original untouched so I can just plug it back in. It was at tight squeeze but very playable.
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In my MK voice: OUTSTANDING! :lame:
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Thanks a lot everyone. Anyone have and shipping suggestions because I have to ship the machine from Hawaii to Kansas. Any special ways anyone knows of to pack it to minimize possible damage?
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great cab !!!!!!!!!!!! :notworthy:
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Well done! Very professional wood job!