mannys old skool barcade

[xnsxmanny]

here is my old skool arcade that i built using cabinet inspiration from sonicade. the side art was obtained off the internet,which i altered to my liking on photoshop. bezel art was made on photoshop as was the control panel and marquee art.total cost was around $50-$60 to make, cost of controls and wood everything else i had. i sold it to a friend for $500. i made it off of a cheap computer and cheap controls, hacked keyboard etc. pretty much as cheap as i could just to get the experience and know how for a better arcade build. next project is a two player sitdown arcade/jukebox (not a cocktail), made from a pentium 4 1.3 ghz celeron with a 21" monitor (old setup that i have). third project will be a 4 player arcade/jukebox using a 1.3ghz amd (another old setup)with a 36" gateway monitor that i picked up off of ebay for $100 about 6 months ago. cant wait to get to that one. the proceeds from selling the barcade are funding the build of the two player arcade, the proceeds from selling that one will go to the building of the 4 player

[IG-88]

Very nice job on the artwork. Man, I wish I had those skills.... Couple of questions,

1. What version of Mmae32 are you using on it?

2. I take it you are using 32's built in FE?

3. What kinda O/S are you running?

4. Can you give more details on the hardware that it has?

I love these cheap builds. I like to learn all I can from others that have made them.

[xnsxmanny]

not sure what version of mame it was i tried a few different verisions. with one version i was able to run mamewah fe on it, but my computer crashed. after getting everything up and runing again i couldnt find that version again so i just eneded up using the mame 32 fe. the new mameui works with mamewah so thats what my next setup is going to run.my operating system was windows xp professional    that some how works on mutiple computers  . computer was an old pentium 2 300 mhz with like a 6gb hard drive and 128mb memory, 15" flat screen crt monitor,keyboard hacked to cheap joystick and buttons that worked quit well.  http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&ssPageName=STRK:MEBTOX:IT&item=310008544633&_trksid=p3984.cTODAY.m238.lVI
the setup performed flawlessly even with that old computer.

[DaOld Man]

Great job!!
Do you have any pictures during construction?
As for your website, may I make a suggestion?
Why not use blogspot.com to keep track of your projects? Its free.
Check out mine:
http://www.skennys-arcade.blogspot.com
I like your bartop. How many games can you play on that P2 300 mhz?

[xnsxmanny]

here is my bezel art                                                                                                                                                      
control panel art

my bootscreen

sideart

one of my few construction pix

another construction pic. see my 36" dell monitor in the background
daold man it has like 250 games on it the ones that were pretty much the best ones i liked to play.but  it mostly played my favorites mk3,galaga,techmo bowl football and pacman

[barnes]

I love the artwork! Did you do it yourself?

[IG-88]

Where did you get the boot screen at?

[xnsxmanny]

i found the side art on the internet i just added things to it and took things out. i changed it to my liking. i did the bezel art myself using images from the web. control panel and marquee i did myself and the boot screen was found on the web. it was the light bulb and and other images on it. i removed the other images and added the takin it old skool part.

[Jdurg]

That bezel is one of the best I have ever seen.  Awesome job!!!      I love how it combines old school arcade games with modern games so seemlessly.  That's pretty damned cool.

[xnsxmanny]

thanx jdurg not bad for a first time arcade build huh?!

[Jdurg]

Not bad at all.  I hope mine comes out that good when I'm done.  (I'm still not 100% settled on the artwork, but at least I have my CP 95% cut out).