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Title: Best free plans available?
Post by: Jeff AMN on December 10, 2009, 12:22:15 pm

I have my MAME set up inside an NFL Blitz cabinet and it works perfectly, but my brother has been running his with a control panel only for about a year and a half now. For Christmas I thought I'd do all the dirty work of building him a cabinet, but I've had a hard time finding good, free plans. It's a 2-player setup, so it doesn't need to be a monster or anything. I was kind of looking for something very similar to knievel's famous Neon Mame, but just can't seem to pin down a source.

So what are the best free plans out there, and where do I get them?  ;D

I've been running into countless dead links in this hunt, have I just missed a site that conveniently stores a bunch of plans?

Title: Re: Best free plans available?
Post by: HaRuMaN on December 10, 2009, 12:38:18 pm

Best free plans?

Graph paper, ruler, pencil...   ;D

Title: Re: Best free plans available?
Post by: Elerium-115 on December 10, 2009, 01:15:27 pm

You should check out Craigslist for a cheap cabinet and retrofit it. Would probably be cheaper and easier.

Title: Re: Best free plans available?
Post by: Jeff AMN on December 10, 2009, 02:11:12 pm

The only problem with the retrofit is that they don't account for stuff like the monitor shelf, keyboard drawer, etc.

In the end I'll probably just design my own, but I figured I'd just throw it out there to see if anybody had any sources handy.

Title: Re: Best free plans available?
Post by: saint on December 10, 2009, 02:26:26 pm

http://files.arcadecontrols.com/categories.php?cat_id=22 (http://files.arcadecontrols.com/categories.php?cat_id=22)

http://www.arcadecontrols.org/arcade_cabinet_plans.shtml (http://www.arcadecontrols.org/arcade_cabinet_plans.shtml) (several links are now dead but many are still valid)

http://wiki.arcadecontrols.com/wiki/Cabinet_Plans (http://wiki.arcadecontrols.com/wiki/Cabinet_Plans)

http://www.jakobud.com/plan-list.php (http://www.jakobud.com/plan-list.php)

Title: Re: Best free plans available?
Post by: Aceldamor on December 11, 2009, 04:01:52 pm

The Varsity Club cab....R.I.P.

http://forum.arcadecontrols.com/index.php?topic=50889.0 (http://forum.arcadecontrols.com/index.php?topic=50889.0)

Title: Re: Best free plans available?
Post by: mwong168 on December 11, 2009, 04:22:19 pm

+1 for jakobud.com

too bad since they updated their site they forgot or remove the dynamo showcase cabinet plans.  good thing i have it saved if anyone is interested I can email it to them because a few people have PM'ed me already.

Title: Re: Best free plans available?
Post by: CheffoJeffo on December 12, 2009, 09:07:13 am

Zorg and I (and saint IIRC) have Jake's plans mirrored from the last vanishing.

Here is my mirror, which includes the showcase plans.

http://happycampers.to/arcade/jakobud/ (http://happycampers.to/arcade/jakobud/)

Zorg's mirror:

http://vectorlib2.free.fr/jakobud/ (http://vectorlib2.free.fr/jakobud/)

Zorg's collection of other plans:

http://vectorlib2.free.fr/Plans/ (http://vectorlib2.free.fr/Plans/)