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Otraotaku:
I may be a little misled,and I wanted to see if im on the right track ti creating a Mame cabinet, would it consist of this....

buy an older computer...

Put it in an older 4 player cabinet...

Hack 2 PC pads or Keyboard...

Throw in Marquee...

PLAY?...

or isit more>

Tiger-Heli:

--- Quote from: Otraotaku on May 26, 2005, 08:58:51 am ---I may be a little misled,and I wanted to see if im on the right track ti creating a Mame cabinet, would it consist of this....
buy an older computer...
Put it in an older 4 player cabinet...

--- End quote ---
Or two player cabinet

--- Quote ---Hack 2 PC pads or Keyboard...

--- End quote ---
Buy I-PAC/2 or KeyWiz or GP-Wiz

--- Quote ---PLAY?...
or isit more>

--- End quote ---
Almost -
You forgot  . . .

Rearrange buttons b/c you didn't like your first attempt

Add trackball and Spinner.

Add Star Wars Yoke and T2 Guns.

Build and interface multiple CP's for attaching above.

Upgrade to 49-Way joysticks with rotary adapters just b/c they're cool

Come up with cool and unique side art and CP overlays.

Configure Frontend so it doesn't look like a PC in a big box.

Lighted sticks and buttons just because you can.

RayB:
wow, 385 posts and yet such a newbie question.  :D

You need to be more specific. Do you want to use a PC monitor or an arcade monitor? Do you want the arcade cabinet to also still work with JAMMA standard arcade circuit boards or no? etc...

Flinkly:
uh...project arcade (the book)?

CheffoJeffo:

--- Quote from: Flinkly on May 26, 2005, 06:23:12 pm ---uh...project arcade (the book)?

--- End quote ---

Seconded.

I lurked around the boards (and others like it) for 18+ months, reading and researching everything and still learned (or was reminded of) a lot of stuff when reading the book.

Book link

Buy it.
Read it.
Build a great cab.

Cheers.

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