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ok let's all tell a story on how we found BYOAC.
F1are:
refered here to purchase happ controls from ponyboy. :) now, im sticking around to hopefully find someone who will sell a 3rd strike board
97thruhiker:
I found it through the example page in June of 2004. Friend of mine introduced me to Mame a month or two prior and we were sitting around work and I said it would be cool to build some kind of dedicated box to hold a computer and to play Mame. I had no idea what was out there and did a search and found some cabinets that people made. It blew me away and one of those had a link to BYOAC. Took me another 8 or 9 months to finally register here but have visited this site just about every day since June 2004 (If only to read the ramblings of Chad, Drew, Stingray, Smokes, Mr C, etc.)
mccoy178:
I was on Ebay looking for a Golden Tee machine. I saw this thing called,"Mame" that could play over 4000 games. After looking at the machines on ebay, I bought a disc from Spystyle like an idiot for about 5 or 6 bucks. It immediately directed me here and the rest is history. Now when I see something neat on Ebay, I google the idea first instead of being lazy.
DrumAnBass:
For me, I found this site fairly recently - maybe 3 months ago
I had played with Mame on my Mac Quadra 840av in the 90s - when it was in its infancy and thought it was the coolest thing ever...! But of course the keyboard interface always bugged me.
I recently saw the "Arcade Legends" machine on costco.com. I hit me that there has got to be a way to build something similar for a lot less money - so off to google I went. Eventually ended up here, and I have been obsessed with the idea of building my own arcade machine ever since.
Just bought a cabinet this past weekend and am just getting started on my project. Coming up with a nice fat list of all the stuff I am going to need to buy... Sticks and trackball from Ultimarc, controller from Groovy Game Gear, translucent buttons from Ponyboy, and the list goes on...!
chadandjody:
I heard about the Project Arcade book on Attack of the Show a few months back.
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