Big Screen Arcade

[skim36]

Hey all,

Thinking of upgrading my arcade machine.  A few years ago I ran into a Tekken 4 arcade with a big screen.  The controls were set back a few feet on a podium.  I have an old 50 inch DLP not doing anything at the moment and thought it would be great to hook that baby up.  Looking for plans on a large screen arcade cab, something like this:

http://www.bmigaming.com/Images/panic-museum-deluxe-shooting-video-arcade-game-ice-taito.jpg

Anyone here build one of these?  I'd mod my cab but I'm not cutting apart a Street Fighter 2 Dynamo.  Any help appreciated.

[Ginsu Victim]

It's called a showcase cabinet, just fyi.

[skim36]

Ah thank you.

[Benevolance]

You can check out Gametreks "Bad Boy" showcase thread.

[mwong168]

As long as you got the space for something like this and able to put some distance between the player and the screen then why not.  I started a showcase cabinet myself cause I had an extra 27" Panasonic CRT flat screen TV and maybe one day I will complete it   I don't suppose your DLP has HDMI does it?

[skim36]

It's a sammy, 2 hdmi, 2 component, 2 s-vid and 1 pc port.  Can go up to 720p.  Thought it would be good as a monitor, but it only goes up to 1024x768.  Still enough for mame.

[mwong168]

HDMI is perfect, it should take care of video and sound in one cable unless you plan on using a 2.1 or 5.1 speaker setup.

[skim36]

Gametrek's badboy is badass.  Hopefully, mine will look one quarter as good.  The distance between the monitor and controls may have to be a bit farther, we are talking 50 inch screen.  Come to think of it, I have an old surround sound system I could throw into it.  More I think about it, the more this looks like a completely new project.