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Repurpose furniture at right height for lightweight stand-up MAME machine?

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mgb:
I would also rather spend $300 on something else. (as a matter of fact I'm also looking for a pinball table) but this thread is about whats best for the guy who started it, not us.

Lilwolf:
Consider getting skillz....  This forum has been amazing for helping others out.  You will figure out how to refab a cab.  Look around and see if you find one that you like. 

And if you want to build one from scratch, the showcase cabs are the cheapest / easiest since they are basically just the control panel.  But this would also be for finding the right size cabinet or something might do...  But at that point, your not saving much with the prepurchase.  I always wanted to build one with a projector built inside it so you move it up to a white wall and you have a cabinet.  The other is a cocktail table / coffee table.  I saw one a costco last night that would work with easy dual wide screen lcd mounting under the glass.  But the glass was dark, not sure if it was too dark. 

As for furnature.  I always look around, but stability is really the selling point.  you want to be able to move that joystick as fast and hard as you can without moving everything.

But really, consider getting the skillz 

eds1275:

--- Quote from: Vigo on July 19, 2011, 12:03:16 pm ---Yeah, using furniture will just look like furniture with a computer on it. That said, you can probably use just a desk like this:

http://www.amazon.com/Computer-Keyboard-drawer-Casters-Printer/dp/B002SUC7UG




--- End quote ---

I bet if you bought something like this, cut some hardboard to fit the frame and gave it a paint job, then installed the x-arcade on it securely you would have a pretty nice modern-looking one of a kind cab. It's already got a keyboard tray and the top is begging for a marquee. Hide a computer in the bottom, mount the monitor on a board bolted to those back supports and remove the wheels and replace them with some feet so it doesn't slide around. Sure it wouldn't be arcade authentic but it would be functional and lightweight, and you could build it all with one piece of 1/4" hardboard, a 2x4 for the monitor, some angle iron for the edges and a can of paint.

Donkbaca:
Looks like a great crap Mame project waiting to happen

snorpmeister:
Thanks again for the suggestions. My wife is fine with me building a game room. Sorry to all the fellahs whose wives aren't down with that.

Want to get a few pins too some day. Won't do it if I have to move soon though. And that's still up in the air. Guess I would have to pick up a few skills to maintain pins but that's not fun to me. Game play is the goal for me personally. Same with MAME / classic video games.

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