Multi-Emulator Cocktail Arcade Machine approching its final stages!

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So I started this cabinet recently.  I am a software developer, and definitely not a woodworker.  But with some help from some of my friends I did manage to get help making the straight wood cuts.  I still need to do the stain and tint the glass.  I went with the two monitor setup because the monitors were cheap and I really liked the new take on an old school setup.  One problem I encountered was the viewing angle of the monitors.  When they were at a normal orientation laying flat you could not see the picture.  I did notice however you could see the monitor on the other side cleanly.  So I turned the monitors upside-down and then flipped the picture on each monitor 180 degrees and it works beautifully!  I will post more pics soon!

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The front end on this system is AtomicFE.  The opening video is a take on the Super Mario Bros. 3 Nintendo game.  Instead of dropping down the title of the game, it drops down the name of the arcade (my and my fiances last names)  This was easily done in Adobe After Effects.  There are multiple emulators inside each with a favorites list for my 7 year old daughter to easily access games she likes to play.  I have two arcade buttons on the side that control volume of the system.  I also have a jukebox emulator installed with our favorite tunes.  I am using a mini pac to control the buttons and joysticks, as well as a pacdrive for the leds which are controlled through the LED Blinky trial version, soon to be upgraded to the paid version though.  Everything works pretty well together.  I am going to experiment with other front ends as there are a few bugs I cannot figure out in AtomicFE.  If I can figure them out I will keep it because I really like its functionality and options.  I made the mistake of wiring all of the buttons one by one instead of using pin plugs, which means if I want to take it apart/put it back together I have about 64 wires to unplug, keep track of and plug back in.  I will be changing this soon.