My first cab pics - 99% done

[shfifty]

Finally some pics of my cab - 99% complete. If you cant tell by the pics, i mainly play street fighter.  I'm Omitting pics of the interior and back, because i havnt cut the back panel door yet, and also because the interior is kind of being used as a storage compartment for my spare screen and all the other spare crap. As for the build pics - i might upload another time, but i dont have many. And to be honest, this project already took enough effort out of me, right now i would rather play it than write about it!

For the specs:

Cabinet:
- 18 mm mdf everything
- Black T-molding
- Painted (roller) with oil based satin finish
- 2x 120 mm exhaust fans
- Lockable, discreet keyboard drawer below the CP

Marquee:
- Printed on polyester film
- 2x 300mm 12v cold cathode tubes for illumination
- marquee sanwiched with 2x 3mm sheets hardened glass
- Retained with PVC window edging, covered in black electrical tape instead of painting

Display:
- 21" sony trinitron CRT vga - Yep, already i want a bigger arcade crt to fill out the cab. Maybe in the future.
- Decased and using my own MDF mount
- Running in single scan mode with native resolutions where available

Bezel
- Foam posterboard covered in contact paper was stuck over the monitor
- And finally a 6mm tinted hardened glass outer layer with spraypainted back

Sound
- Sound blaster vibra 128 sound card
- Logitech x240's
- Wired up to some pioneer kevlar dome 2 way 4" car speakers
- Wired in an external potentiometer with an anodized aluminium volume knob just below the marquee

Control Panel
- 18mm MDF base
- 16mm MDF Top, polyester film printed overlay and 3mm perspex on top
- T-molding edging
- 2x sanwa JLF's top mounted, with square restrictor gates
- 6 sanwa OBSN-30's for each player, in astro city layout. (heads up to slagcoin for the layout)
- 8x seimitsu 24mm screw ins (1 & 2P start, 4x admin and 2x pinball flipper/coin credit buttons)
- X-arcade encoder

Coin Door
- Bally Williams double entry door, flush mounted
- 2x imonex quarter mechs, modified to accept aus $1
- LED globes for reject buttons
- Theres a switch wired in to enable or disable the pinball flipper buttons which act as credit buttons. So i can capitalise of my friends if need be...

Hardware
- P4 1.8
- 512 MB ram
- Sound blaster vibra 128
- 80 GB HDD
- Theres some more dust and stuff in there too

Software
- AdvanceMenu FE (DOS)
- AdvanceMame+ (DOS) - Yes it even plays street fighter III 3rd strike in dos
- Boot time is about 20 secs straight into the FE

Anything i would change/add?
- a slightly smaller or no SFZ3 logo on the CP
- Maybe get rid of the capcom logo on the CP
- Definitely a bigger screen, but only if its an arcade CRT - I love the real scanlines
- A dedicated 4-way would be nice
- Side art hopefully coming soon
- I should have used 2 of the admin buttons for a 7th button for each player - to replicate the neo geo layout. I dont really need 4 admin buttons


Thats all i can think of for now! If theres specific information needed on any aspect of the cab i will be happy to supply. Also i can upload more/better pics of various parts of the cab if anyone requests.

[shfifty]

more pics

[DCsegaDH]

Nice artwork, my favorite Street Fighter game!

[Creeper]

Looks great, clean build. 

[Erik]

Looks great!  Neat to see dos being used.  What's the width of this cab?

[MagicManPA]

Looks great. Awesome job.

[Cynicaster]

Thumbs up, great work.   

Love the volume knob idea.  On my cab I'm going to have to remove a magnet-mounted speaker grille to access the volume knob.  Oh well, I like that better than software control.   

[shfifty]

thanks for all the feedback!

Looks great!  Neat to see dos being used.  What's the width of this cab?

The internal width is 25 inches (635mm)

Love the volume knob idea.  On my cab I'm going to have to remove a magnet-mounted speaker grille to access the volume knob.  Oh well, I like that better than software control.   

Do it, its totallly worth the extra effort. The only slight problem i have found with mine is that when playing with 2 players, i would have to reach my arm in front of player 2's view to reach the knob. But i can live with that!

[dandare]

Very nice cab mate! Really like the artwork, and capcom is a one of my favorite logos so I'd keep it!
Top job!!

[SNAAKE]

even after all these years people still manage build SF themed cabs. looks good very clean