Well I'm finally finished, I was going to wait till my website was done to announce but hey I couldn't wait I'm sure you all understand, lol.
I started out over a year ago and had already decided that I wanted to make a cab that was different in some way from what I had already seen.
As a lot of you know I am no fan of big cluttered control panels and I wanted a really authentic arcade feel to the game play. When playing this cab you don't even realise that there are control panels on each side it just feels very arcade.
This is a fully rotatable 26" arcade monitor and rather than rotating from a horizontal to vertical position it rotates 360 degrees to a Street Fighter panel using 2XHapps comps and 7 buttons, a Defender/Stargate panel, a panel with Happs 3" trackball and Vortex spinner from Oscar and a panel with 2XHapp 4 way MsPac/Galag sticks with 2 buttons each.
The coin up, start buttons and monitor power button rotate with the monitor.
Inside is a 1.6GHz Duron processor with 256MB Ram, 40 GB HD, Arcade VGA, IPAC-2, Opti-Pac. I am running XP home with windows command line MAME and Mamewah as frontend. Sound is through a Happ kiosk amp and 2X10W shielded arcade speakers. Panels are powder coated 2mm mild steel.
I realise that a lot of you would have chosen different layouts for the control panels but for the games that me and my friends and family play this is perfect.
Thanks to everyone on the BYOAC forum for all the help and advice, special thanks to ROM for the awesome artwork.
It's been great putting this beast together now on to the next project, lol.