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Title: Complete Newbie to MAME! Just introducing myself.
Post by: ChicagoGlen on December 15, 2008, 11:59:07 am

Hello all,

Just thought I would introduce myself.  The name is Glen and like the screen name I live in Illinois.  Originally from Chicago but now live 60 miles west.  I had never heard of MAME before but I am a hobbiest woodworker and someone posted a project or theirs on woodnet.net a while back and it got me interested.

I have always loved Arcade Games when I was a kid and I thought I would attempt some type of cabinet after reading so much here.  (Leaning towards Cocktail Cabinet because of space issues) I figured I have the tools I just have to learn the electronics part.  I want to make a custom cab for my home office/White Sox room.  I made all of the cabinets from scratch in my garage so I shouldn't have any problem building the case. 

Here is the office with my home made wall of cabinets.  I want the cocktail table to fit under my game used bat collection.

(http://i74.photobucket.com/albums/i255/chicagoglen/PICT0451.jpg)

(http://i74.photobucket.com/albums/i255/chicagoglen/PICT0452.jpg)

Anyone out there from Illinois?

Thanks for the inspiration to try this.  I am still only in the planning/learning stage.

I hope to one day post my project on the forum.

Glen

Title: Re: Complete Newbie to MAME! Just introducing myself.
Post by: mrserv0n on December 15, 2008, 04:38:48 pm

You need this

http://www.buy.com/retail/product.asp?sku=35214943&listingid=23614944&dcaid=17902


and after that if you need some blueprints you need this

http://www.mameroom.com/Categories.asp?ID=PLANS

Have fun!

Title: Re: Complete Newbie to MAME! Just introducing myself.
Post by: SparkyGoBlue on December 15, 2008, 04:49:40 pm

Nice looking office.

You've come to the right place for information about building a MAME cab.  I found these forums invaluable when building my cab.