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Cabaret Pacman MAME
« on: December 26, 2004, 06:45:59 am »
Just found this site and wanted to show my machine.
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Re: Cabaret Pacman MAME
« Reply #1 on: December 26, 2004, 07:22:16 am »
I love those cabinets.  Very classic and classy.  Something you could put in your living room without pissing off the wife.

That being said... The marquee could use one more color to draw people too it.... Making it less classy :)

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Re: Cabaret Pacman MAME
« Reply #2 on: December 26, 2004, 07:30:19 am »
The marquee is actually blank.  I just used a dry erase marker to try and come up with an idea.  I built the whole thing from scratch from just looking at pictures of an old Pacman Cabaret machine.
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Re: Cabaret Pacman MAME
« Reply #3 on: December 26, 2004, 10:18:51 am »
looks great! any more pics? or a site maybe?
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Re: Cabaret Pacman MAME
« Reply #4 on: December 26, 2004, 10:21:09 am »
I do have more pics of the whole build, but photobucket seems to be having a problem...

I wish I had a site for it.

Do you have any interest in any particular stage in the building process?  I have a bunch of photos of it and photobucket won't hold them all.  I can post a few of ones that people may be interested in.
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Re: Cabaret Pacman MAME
« Reply #5 on: December 27, 2004, 10:38:25 am »
Very nice work, Rescue161. It looks really good! I love these compact cabs and Pacman is one of my favorites (it just loses to the mini Galaga  :) )

What kind of material did you use? Is it veneered MDF or plywood? And what kind of monitor did you manage to put in there?

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Re: Cabaret Pacman MAME
« Reply #6 on: December 27, 2004, 11:31:57 am »
Well, I used plywood and stain.
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Re: Cabaret Pacman MAME
« Reply #7 on: December 27, 2004, 12:47:28 pm »
Thanks Rescue,

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Re: Cabaret Pacman MAME
« Reply #8 on: December 27, 2004, 01:12:06 pm »
The dimensions of my cab are 20.75" wide / 24" deep / 62.75" tall.

I used 3/4" plywood, so the inside dimensions would allow for a 19 inch monitor, but only an LCD would fit.  Plus I felt the hole in my pocket book after I bought the 17" LCD, especially seeing as how it would only be used in a MAME cabinet...  If I would have made it about 30" deeper, I could have used a regular CRT monitor and been several hundred dollars richer.

I didn't want to use a TV or arcade monitor due to some of my games are "vector" games, plus they wouldn't have fit in the cabinet and I already had a CRT monitor (at that time anyway...).  The LCD monitor works pretty good.  I used some scan lines on the regular games and none on the vector games.
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