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How much do people typically spend building a cab?

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Grimoz:
My MAME cab was made from a gutted point blank cab and all up I think it cost about $2000 (Australian). But i think that in this hobby there is no final price because your always updating and spending more cash to make things bigger and better  ;D

Le Chuck:
My first build was a conversion that ran me 75 for the cab, 300 for the monitor, and an additional 325 in CP, paint, computer, speakers, art, light guns, etc.  That was in '03 I think. 

Several full size builds fill the years all averaging around $500.


This past year:

Darkade ran about $400 with the majority of that tied up in CP.  That includes 90 I spent on a new router, which was the second biggest cost then art.  The rest was nit-noid stuff like paint, hinges, mdf etc.  Computer was free.

Micro SW ran around 180 but would have been a lot less if I had known what the hell I was doing.  Hours spent on that one are more than on Darkade I think.

Micro Gauntlet I'm over 200 and not finished.  Art ran me a bit more and I have been going through encoders trying to find a good solution.

Micro Tron is at $80 so far but is on hold until I finish gauntlet and maybe until I get frustrated with trying to build a speeder.

Speeder I'm already at $350 and haven't started.  I anticipate that project could run me a few thousand when all is said and done. 

yaksplat:
I'm at about 1500 on my 'Mystery Arcade'.  Dual spinners, trackball, a pair of u360s, and nice light up buttons take up a bunch of the budget.

nick3092:
There is no such thing as an average cost in this hobby. It all depends in what you want in your cab, and how far are you willing to take it. I initially started out with a spreadsheet of what it was going to cost me when I planned mine out. But I now I have far surpassed whatever I estimated.

This is true of almost any hobby. Take golf for example. One person could spend $300 on clubs, someone else could spend $1,200. And both could hit the ball the same distance. So the same principle applies. Spend/buy what feels good for you within your budget, and enjoy it. But comparing dollar amounts feels like a d**k swinging contest to me.

Just my 2cents.

paigeoliver:
Exactly, impossible to pin down an average when you have people managing to crank out functional sub-$100 projects and other people making $3000 masterpieces. While yet a 3rd person will basically make that same $3000 masterpiece with a budget of $1000 by converting an existing cabinet and using a used PC rather than scratchbuilding and putting in a high end gaming PC.


--- Quote from: nick3092 on July 13, 2012, 09:15:26 pm ---There is no such thing as an average cost in this hobby. It all depends in what you want in your cab, and how far are you willing to take it. I initially started out with a spreadsheet of what it was going to cost me when I planned mine out. But I now I have far surpassed whatever I estimated.

This is true of almost any hobby. Take golf for example. One person could spend $300 on clubs, someone else could spend $1,200. And both could hit the ball the same distance. So the same principle applies. Spend/buy what feels good for you within your budget, and enjoy it. But comparing dollar amounts feels like a d**k swinging contest to me.

Just my 2cents.

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