@firedance: you're very welcome. After reading so many interesting tips and "how-to" from you guys, I guess the least I can do is answer all the questions you could have on my build, no matter how "simple" it is in its design.
@Malenko: thanks for the comment! I'm definitely very proud of it: we had a party at home last week and I could not resist showing my cab to the guests. I fired it up and in no time there was a queue of people waiting to try it out and play some of the games they used to have at home, on their old console.
The fighting games (especially Street Fighter) got most of the interest... Much more fun to play with a joystick and arcade buttons than with a console pad.
