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Meltman1:
This is my first post on the boards. Hopefully they will be fully functional soon. Anyway, I registered with the name Meltman and this is my somewhat different cabinet design.

I wanted a cabinet that was suitable for 4 players but yet not super huge deep (like 6-player xmen). So I decided to inlay the monitor rather than put it up in the air like a normal cabinet.

Here's the very first shot of the TV in the cabinet. This was a test run. I honestly had no idea what it would end up looking like.


Anyways, I wanted the screen to be clearly viewable from all player positions. I also wanted to have the top be a smooth semi-circle. I've never seen a cabinet built this way, so I figured I'd give it a shot and be unique. This is what I came up with. It sort of looks like a reject baseball diamond.


But alas, I lost my job the VERY week I was going to order controls and became an even poorer college student. So the project was put away in my parents basement for a solid year. This year I hacked an Xbox and started playing Street Fighter against one of my good friends. It became obvious that pulling off special alpha moves was near impossible to do with the xbox's stick or crappy D-pad, so the arcade was resurrected. Out of pure luck, my boss at work was getting rid of a 20 inch CRT monitor that was a PERFECT size match to the crappy TV I was going to use.

Tada! The "fail out box" was alive again!


Ooooh pretty buttons


Button layout


Giving the top some depth


My high tech clamping methods


Huge mess on the floor


Thats it for right now (actually I'm WAY closer to being done, but you all will just have to wait).

As a side note, anyone building an arcade really should create good plans. I kind of got boozed a bit one night and started building. There are no major mistakes, but I would have spent a ton less time staring at the box thinking "now how the hell am I going to do this?"

leapinlew:
Interesting idea... I'm curious to see how it all works out. It's kind of cool that you could put glass over the top and use it as a bar.

If me and my friends started playing some 4 player games on that - someone would have a concusion before it was all said and done.

meltman01:
I'm thinking 1/4 plexi for the "drunk protection" factor.

Its going to be a big sheet though. 40 x 40 inches. I'm really open to all suggestions on that part.

shardian:
Neat build. I can't wait to see the finished product.

AKA Kaytrim:
 :cheers: Excellent and innovative design.  My wife would kill me if I put something that big in the basement.  She is mad enough already with the eyesore I have currently.

TTFN  :cheers:
Kaytrim

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