Want to talk UGLY? My first Mame cab...

[Rook3]

I built this a few years back, with minimal available information and before the BYOA book was published. Having the book back then would have made this a lot easier.

http://www.rookscastle.com/arcade/mame.html



It had a freakishly huge control panel. The overlay was my pride and joy. I spent a couple weeks just taking screen caps from mame and editing it all togeather. Some of it turned out fine, but some details were lost when printed.






Still a good learning process. My next cab will be better obviously, and the franken panel won't be so large King Kong can use it.

[nullb0y]

rebuild that monster joybox!

[nullb0y]

oh u sold it nvm

[Bones]

Wooohooo!

Somebody with a thicker CP than mine. 

[nullb0y]

im thinking of cutting into my cabinet to mount a larger cp..... but im not shure

[Rook3]

My panel was just WAAAAAAYYYYYY too big.

I even cut into the cabinet to mount it, but it was still not right. It was mounted about 6" too high for one thing, and I also made it from Plywood instead of MDF/Partical board. The next one I do from scratch WILL be partical board. Plywood sucks up paint like a sponge! I think I was also using spraypaint at the time as well.

Yeah, it was a learning process. Kind of like running a red light or smart mouthing to a policeman. Not a great thing to do.

Russ

[Bones]

Don't worry. I am sure you have had a blast on your own scratch built machine so stand proud and put anything learned down to experience.

[testicle187]

Rook, do you still have your Star Wars arcade game that is shown on your webpage?  If so, please don't gut it like you suggested on the page.