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severdhed:
i am leaning strongly towards moving my main cab upstairs into the kids toy room and doing a 4player cab in the first floor family room.  moving the DK cab upstairs really isnt a good option.  the DK cab is only for 4way classics, which doesnt seem to attract the kids as much as the adults that come over, so setting it up in the toy room isnt going to work..plus then i would have just my main 2 player cab that is really too small for a much larger control panel.  i can't get rid of that cabinet due to sentimental reasons.

i think i will email my friend to see what the situation with that cabinet is, plus i also found a virtua tennis cabinet on craigslist for $25 that is listed as "needs put back together"...no pics or anything, but i contacted the guy for more info. 

i just hope i can find someone who wants the DK cabinet.

as for making something that looks more like furniture..i don't think i can do that.  my wife doesnt mind having an arcade cabinet in the house as long as it is sitting in the corner out of the way.  i could only fit one cabinet in the corner, so the DK Cabinet has a more prominent location in the room.  she is the one that suggested keeping my zakman cabinet and moving it up to the kids toyroom and said she doesnt mind if i build a larger cabinet to put in it's place, as long as the DK cabinet goes away.

severdhed:
well, i am making some progress now.  I talked to my friend with the dynamo cabinet, he hasnt touched it since i gave it to him two years ago.  I even made it easy on him, all he needed was a monitor and controls, i already had a pc set up in the cabinet ready to go and he just hasnt been motivated...so he said if i want it,i can have it. i will hopefully be able to go over an evening this week to get some measurements.  i did not get a reply from the guy on craigslist.

i took the pc from my DK cabinet to work with me to see what was wrong with it.  the motherboard and power supply were dead.  fortunately I fix computers for a living..my boss had tons of spare parts at the shop that really arent much good for normal use, but for a mame cabinet, they are perfect.  he had an old socket 478 motherboard (abit is7)sitting there, as well as a Pentium 4 3.0ghz processor. i . he had a big stack of 256mb dimms (ddr400), fortunately the board has 4 ram slots, so i got 1gb of ram in it.   so along with an old case and an 80gb sata drive i had lying around, i got a fairly decent mame pc setup.  he also hooked me up with a 256mb agp radeon x1650 card that has component video output.  most of these parts are not really viable for use in a real pc for anyone..so he said if i didnt use them, they would just sit there and rot.

so i havent had a change to connect the pc to the TV, and the TV is currently sitting my my kid's bedroom...so that will have to wait until tomorrow. i did however connect the pc via component video to my DLP projector and it came up at 480i and was fine...so feel pretty positive that it will work on the TV. 

i started planning out a 4 player panel, but i'm not sure how big to make it...i dont want it to be too big.  we have a 4 player panel at work that is 48" wide,  but it is showcase style with a 36"  monitor...i dont think a panel that size would work too well with a 27" monitor in a standard type cabinet.  players 3 and 4 probably wont be used that much, so if they are a little uncomfortable, who cares.  i think i can fit everything into a 40" x 18" panel, but i need to make a cardboard version and test it.

so, in order to keep the wife happy, i'm going to get rid of my donkey kong cabinet.  i'm going to make a thread in the BST forum, if anyone is interested, let me know.

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