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dax:
I finally uploaded some pictures of my cabinet.  I know it's lame compared to most everybody elses, but it might be useful to show an example of a Neo cab hack that minimizes destroying the integrity of the original cab.

I purchased this cabinet for $250.  I have had it operating as a Neo cab for a few years and I finally decided to MAME it. 

P3-500 (shows you how long ago I was last into Mame), with an ArcadeVGA and a J-PAC, and I have the PC connected:




A look at the original control panel:



cab insides, pretty much stock:






Plug the Jamma harness into the J-PAC, mount the board inside:



Test the cabinet speakers/wiring:



Chuck the PC in the cabinet and wire-tie it down.  The black box on top is a GE powered subwoofer that I rewired to the internal speakers.



dax:
So far so good:



Now, let's add some additional controls, first a 2.5" trackball.  In retrospect, I don't know if I would have used this circular cutter.  It took a long time to cut out.  I didn't bother to remove the overlay when I cut this because it had some cigarette burns and damage to it.  I have brand new replacement original Neo-Geo parts that will be stored inside the cabinet and will put a new overlay on later.




Cut a hole for an Oscar Vortex too, and mount both:




Hook up the i-PAC and realize that I was a total dumbshit:




Ok, with a little grinding, that's fixed... I know I can't be the first person who mounted a trackball off-axis.

My girlfriend was like, "Well this works perfectly if you stand off to the side!"

So there it is:



I'm hoping to add some extra small buttons to handle stuff like mouse-click and other functions.  Although there's probably a way to program one of the PACs to do key combos.  I'm waiting a control panel overlay and then I just have to sort out the nightmare of FE and Mame configuration, which still plagues me here and there, but it is workable and playable.... 




dax:
I guess some of you might think the playfield is cramped?  I think it works out nicely.  Tempest works very well.  I was never a big fan of trackball games but missile command, marble madness and centipede work well.  Robotron and Joust work smoothly too.   It's not necessarily great for Defender/Stargate, but I don't know if I've seen anybody's cabinet set up to optimally play those?

Hiub1:
Man, that looks great! Don't be shy about it man, that looks like a great and faithful conversion. I wish mine looked like yours!

Scott84:
Is it a good idea to put a subwoofer directly on a computer tower?

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