Main Restorations Software Audio/Jukebox/MP3 Everything Else Buy/Sell/Trade
Project Announcements Monitor/Video GroovyMAME Merit/JVL Touchscreen Meet Up Retail Vendors
Driving & Racing Woodworking Software Support Forums Consoles Project Arcade Reviews
Automated Projects Artwork Frontend Support Forums Pinball Forum Discussion Old Boards
Raspberry Pi & Dev Board controls.dat Linux Miscellaneous Arcade Wiki Discussion Old Archives
Lightguns Arcade1Up Try the site in https mode Site News

Unread posts | New Replies | Recent posts | Rules | Chatroom | Wiki | File Repository | RSS | Submit news

  

Author Topic: apeekaboo's MAME cabinet  (Read 1999 times)

0 Members and 1 Guest are viewing this topic.

apeekaboo

  • Trade Count: (0)
  • Full Member
  • ***
  • Offline Offline
  • Posts: 19
  • Last login:May 11, 2014, 01:27:41 pm
  • Debian addict
    • my MAME cabinet
apeekaboo's MAME cabinet
« on: December 27, 2004, 12:18:41 pm »
Hi everybody!

I'd like to invite you to my site to have a look at my MAME cabinet.
I have just finished installing lights for the marquee and have posted some new pictures of it.
There are still some things to be done, but I consider it to be approximately 90% complete.

Cheers

hbm*rais

  • Trade Count: (0)
  • Full Member
  • ***
  • Offline Offline
  • Posts: 116
  • Last login:September 03, 2010, 08:43:44 pm
  • Relaxen und watchen das blinkenlichten!
Re: apeekaboo's MAME cabinet
« Reply #1 on: December 27, 2004, 09:07:59 pm »
Very nice use of a poker cab. And very nice use of a TFT screen also. I hate when people use LCD screens to make cabs that are like 6 inches deep. It gets all out of proportion, it doesn't look like a real cab anymore.

The image looks very good. So good in fact I thought it was Photoshoped on the cab at first  :) . If these things didn't cost an arm and a leg here I

apeekaboo

  • Trade Count: (0)
  • Full Member
  • ***
  • Offline Offline
  • Posts: 19
  • Last login:May 11, 2014, 01:27:41 pm
  • Debian addict
    • my MAME cabinet
Re: apeekaboo's MAME cabinet
« Reply #2 on: January 07, 2005, 01:35:04 pm »
Thanks! :)

The cabinet measures about 52 x 155 x 63 cm (width, height, depth).
For Americans that would probably be something like 20 x 61 x 24 inches... ;)

No photoshop job on the pictures. :angel:
I ordered the art from http://www.classicarcadegrafix.com/

The most expensive part of this project was of course the TFT screen, which is around half the cost of this project.
I would probably have regret it if I would have come up with something smaller.
Sometimes you see BIG cabinets with huge control panels and just a tiny 15" or 17".
That really looks akward...

I think I have spent something simular to $USD 1300 on the cabinet so far.
This does not include the computer which I've built from spare parts.

I would very much like to add a spinner so I guess there will be some additional costs in the future...