Nova BigScreen MAME cabinet

[skr]

Hello everyone,

hope this is the right category for what I am up to - if not please feel free to move this thread!

I guess it's a story not unheard of here: grown up in the 80s and 90s videogames have been part of my later childhood.
The rare occassions when I had the opportunity to play real arcade cabinets, mostly during vacation in southern europe, have always been fascinating.
So after fiddling around with emulators quite a lot in the early 2000s it has since been a dream to have an own arcade cabinet one day, preferably fitted with a MAME setup.

Here we are, late April 2025, finally having the space for such a machine, an offer that did fit my wishes and using a weak moment of my wife - a Nova BigScreen has been bought 



Fitted with a PS1 mod with Tekken3, a little rough around the egdes, but other than that quite what I was searching for.






The plan was and is to restore the cabinet where needed, keep the monitor and overall electric setup and build a MAME machine out of it. I made good progress in the last fews months, but a few things are still to do.

So if there is interest I am happy to share the steps so far with this project, as I was much enjoying reading through some of the topics here too