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Turning a floor model television into a MAME cabinet.

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Jack Burton:
There's always the possibility of completely replacing the chassis with another television, but I think if at all possible I'd like to keep those parts original. 

A scratch build would be nice, but I just don't have the woodworking skills to make it look enough like furniture. 

Right now, I'm reading as much as I can about some other member's previous projects in which RGB video connections were added to a television.  That will be the trickiest part.

paigeoliver:
If that is a 27" then you could substitute in a 27" VGA arcade monitor.

Otherwise, I am not really seeing it. What would you play with gamepads? Are you going to put it up high on a stand and bolt a control panel on it?

SavannahLion:
That CRT might be a ---smurfette--- to get working with anything other than the crappy composite. And if fooling around with my grandma's old Zenith is of any indication, you're not going to have any room to add your "drawers" without moving some of the internal organs around anyways.

Swap the CRT out for a LCD and create a new curved piece instead.

Up to you, your TV.

mamenewb100:

--- Quote from: SavannahLion on June 30, 2013, 05:53:18 pm ---
Swap the CRT out for a LCD

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I'll pretend you didn't say that  :o

Jack Burton:

--- Quote from: SavannahLion on June 30, 2013, 05:53:18 pm ---That CRT might be a ---smurfette--- to get working with anything other than the crappy composite. And if fooling around with my grandma's old Zenith is of any indication, you're not going to have any room to add your "drawers" without moving some of the internal organs around anyways.

Swap the CRT out for a LCD and create a new curved piece instead.

Up to you, your TV.

--- End quote ---

It's RGB CRT or nothing. 
--- Quote from: paigeoliver on June 30, 2013, 05:30:52 pm ---If that is a 27" then you could substitute in a 27" VGA arcade monitor.

Otherwise, I am not really seeing it. What would you play with gamepads? Are you going to put it up high on a stand and bolt a control panel on it?

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It's really more of a MESS cab than a MAME cab idea.  Gamepads and exterior joystick controllers would serve as input.  I know an exterior PC would be more typical (and even more useful) but I fancy the notion of having it all in one case.

I have an RCA similar to this one:



That will be my start.  I think tapping the individual color signals should be easy, but sending the correct voltage will be a process.

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