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Idea for a new cab. Comments welcome
Sylentwulf:
OK, I'm just not sure what the purpose of putting the monitor in a box? With the idea you've shown and described above, you're talking about a computer desk, with the monitor in a box.
I would have to suggest just waiting until you have more time, money, and/or space to build at the LEAST a dedicated bartop, mini, or full size cabinet. I'm just not sure I understand the point of what you described.
Centipeed:
Well, I guess I am doing it because I like projects, and I want to make it look pretty and everything...
Also, I don't want to have to keep a couple of GC arcade sticks attached to my main computer all the time, but I still want arcade style controls... So I am doing it mainly because I want to...
I agree with you though, it will have no real function other than holding a monitor and keeping the control pads in place...
paigeoliver:
Buddy , $30 will get you a computer capable of handling 90+ percent of the Mame games. If you can afford the minimum of the $100 for the rest of the project, then I am pretty sure you can afford $30 for an old 400 mhz comp to put inside it. Egad people, you don't HAVE to put a new Dell Athlon XP 2600 inside your Mame cabinet.
Centipeed:
Hmm... Good point... Most likely I will build it as I want it now, without the holding tray, and then probably add on an enclosed tower later, or the computer parts without the tower...
The games I mainly play are things like Marvel vs capcom, all the metal slug games, some of the oldies (tempest etc) and probably a lot of other fighting and platform games...
But knowing me at least one of the games I really want to play will need a faster PC than the one I buy for the machine...
RayB:
Are you using a PC monitor or an arcade monitor? If it's a PC monitor, why bother with any of this? Just build yourself a control panel you can hook up when you want it, and when you're not playing, you put it away.
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