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2panther:
Just wanted to say hi and give a quick intro!

I have wanted to build my own arcade cabinet for my old nintendo console to try to make it look like a Players Choice machine that I used to drop a bunch of cash into at the mall but after researching further it looks like I want to go the main route!

I still am trying to learn exactly how MAME will work for me and all that once i build the cabinet but it looks like I found a good place to research and ask questions.

I have very little woodworking skills but I hope to tackle this project anyway. My ability to follow directions is uncanny though haha so I hope to find a step by step guide to making this happen for my first cabinet and then after this one is finished I will try to get creative. If anyone has some step by step instructions for cutting out the panels I'd appreciate it!

Oh yeah I will be building an upright cabinet, I'd love to have a controller layout that would be good for Street Fighter II type games (two rows of 3 buttons) would that also let me play games that don't require all six buttons?

I'd also like the cabinet not to be a super narrow one so my brother and I can play against eachother without sitting in eachothers lap. Does that make sense? If someone might know what I'm talking about off the top of their head is there a particular name for that cabinet?

Thanks I hope to contribute and learn as I go through this process!

postalp123:

Welcome 2Panther!!

Lets me try to give a few tips:


--- Quote from: 2panther on September 22, 2006, 09:44:44 am ---I have very little woodworking skills but I hope to tackle this project anyway. My ability to follow directions is uncanny though haha so I hope to find a step by step guide to making this happen for my first cabinet and then after this one is finished I will try to get creative. If anyone has some step by step instructions for cutting out the panels I'd appreciate it!
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There are 2 paths to go about fashioning a MAME upright cab:

A) Simply find a local arcade dealer or auction to find an old cabinet, gut the internals and rebuild into a MAME cab.

or...

B) The standard way to build an upright from scratch normally involves 3 pieces of 4' X 8' wood (Could be MDF, plywood, etc...) 2 of the pieces will be matching sides, the last piece will serve as the bridging pieces.



--- Quote from: 2panther on September 22, 2006, 09:44:44 am ---Oh yeah I will be building an upright cabinet, I'd love to have a controller layout that would be good for Street Fighter II type games (two rows of 3 buttons) would that also let me play games that don't require all six buttons?

I'd also like the cabinet not to be a super narrow one so my brother and I can play against eachother without sitting in eachothers lap. Does that make sense? If someone might know what I'm talking about off the top of their head is there a particular name for that cabinet?

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The standard layout seems to look like this (Give or take a spinner):


2 X Joysticks
2 X 6 Button Layouts
2 X Coin Buttons
2 X Player Start Buttons
4 X Admin Buttons
Optional: Trackball & Spinner

This will amount to 28 inputs, just enough for an I-Pac2 keyboard encoder.

subcriminal:
Sounds a lot like my project! If you've got no previous woodworking skills like I didn't have I'd practice on some scraps with saws, routers etc. for a bit. I built a pretty bad cab before this one and didn't think things through enough but the second attempt came out nice.
My Donkey Kong themed cab was made a bit wider for two players and to rotate the monitor. I just liked the look of the Nintendo cabs and DK rocks!
You're definately on the right forum but I'd sugest doing a bit on the cab reading plenty as you go as there's a heck of a lot to take in from start to finish.

Stingray:
Very impressive DK themed cab!

-S

leapinlew:

--- Quote from: Stingray on September 22, 2006, 12:20:17 pm ---Very impressive DK themed cab!

-S

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He did a real nice write up on it too. I prefer the lack of admin buttons. The cleaner the CP the better.

2Panther - your on the right track. Keep reading.

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