yet to be named cabinet

[Sammie]

OK,

after all the reading on this site for the last month and all the research I have done for the last 3 months I have decided to build my own cabinet.

If I build it from scratch it will eventually be a 4 player CP, 32 inch monitor/TV and no art on the side as it will be made out of Southern Yellow Pine 1x6's to match the rest of our living room that I have built.

If I buy a cabinet then it will have art work on the side and what ever the biggest monitor/TV I can get in the cabinet.

I am hoping to have it take all size coins from dimes to tokens, along with free play.

I am not looking at having it play movies or be used to play MP3's.
I have 5 kids and they love playing at one of my friends house who has one that plays MAME games.

It will be running on a 1.2ghz AMD PC, cd-rom, 3.5 floppy, 20 gig HD, 1 gig memory, onboard video and audio, running XP pro

the CP will be a keyboard hack for the initial 2player CP. when it goes 4 player I will decide what I will use to control them then.

at the moment I have 2 4 way Happ joys and a couple of buttons.

On my wish list is a 3" track ball, spinner and enough buttons to make even god jealous.

I am doing this on the cheap, that is why I am going with the keyboard hack to start with, the PC is one sitting in my attic.

Basic specs on the cabinet are 6'6" tall, 36" wide and 36" deep.

when I get the basic drawings of the cabinet done I will post them.

feel free to comment with suggestions/criticism

Sammie

Edited for type of wood cabinet is to be made from

[sparcade]

Good luck with your build.....

FYI.... If I were you , I just spend the 30 bucks and get a KeyWiz and skip the keyboard hack.

On my first cab build, I started of with the keyboard hack and found that the ghosting/blocking affected games like Street Fighter.   I learned a lot doing it,  but over all, I spent a lot of extra time on that portion of the project which
could have been better allocated.  Just my humble opinion.

On the bright side, I am going to use the hack I planned on using in my cab for my juke which is much more
keypress friendly :-)

sparcade

[Sammie]

why keywiz?

why not ultramarc or ipac?

I am curious and looking for more information

[sparcade]

why keywiz?

why not ultramarc or ipac?

No particular reason.  I just happened to choose it over the others and was real happy with it.
I'm sure the others are good products as well.

Well worth the money.

sparcade

[_) (V) (-)]

My first on worked so good I put a dual GP32 setup in my 2nd cab.
100% No problems.

Good luck and remember to plan.