frogger MAME ultra low cost project

[bradx]

I brought one of my old cabs home tonight and gave it some tender loving care.  This Frogger was sold to me half a dozen years ago as a Rush n Attack.  I sold the parts out of it and used the proceeds to get a Frogger CPO and marquee. 



It has an ancient version of MAME on a compaq armada laptop from 1999 running windows 98 with 128MB of RAM.  The video composite output, along with the audio, via headphone 1/8" jack, are connected to a broken VCR I am using as an RF modulator.  A coax goes from there to the ancient TV I precariously mounted in the back.  I pulled the wires off the internal speaker on the TV and jumped them to the speaker in the cabinet.  My very first Ipac is in there. 



The frontend is a very simple MALA menu.



I was unemployed long term and sold it to a friend who enjoys emulators but has no idea how to interface MAME with arcade controls.  I offered to buy it back numerous times and he said he would never sell it.  Well, when moving to a new apartment, he managed to bust the back off the monitor which was sticking unprotected out the back of the cabinet.  Since he had no idea how to swap it out with a different one, and recently acquired a future wife whom he managed to somehow impregnate, he was only too willing to part with it. 



All I had to do is promise to do the work on this beast pictured below, if he pays for all the parts, so I guess that will be my next project...

[pbj]

recently acquired a future wife whom he managed to somehow impregnate, he was only too willing to part with it. 

Is she hot?

[Cobolisdead]

Wait, is he parting with the wife or the cabinet?


Seriously though, that Cabinet is so awesome in how it is made.

[bradx]

recently acquired a future wife whom he managed to somehow impregnate, he was only too willing to part with it. 

Is she hot?

yes she is, and also about ten years younger than him.  she's a keeper, for sure, and she is cool with him having a MAME cab in the house.  good woman, and has also become a good friend of mine.

[bradx]

Wait, is he parting with the wife or the cabinet?


Seriously though, that Cabinet is so awesome in how it is made.

thanks!  it was one of my first MAME attempts so i just used dumb logic.