The Arcade Machine (98% Completed)

[Bonechip]

The top hole(s) will be player starts, and the ones right below them will be coin buttons. I am also wiring in the coin doors to register credits for the heck of it.


Fun stuffs

[Bonechip]

Ok, after a long break things are back on track.

Speakers.

I disassembled an old set of Altec Lansing's and mounted the satellite's next to the stock ones in the header and plan on mounting the sub-woofer inside the cab somewhere.

 

[Bonechip]

Primer, BooBoo fixes and Paint.



Here I put screws in the holes where the security bar was. I drove them in at an angle, packed in a little circle of cardboard, then putty smooth.



I bought a piece of "L" shaped aluminum to hide the lower front edge damage (Ya, I got lazy, but it will work out ok):

[Bonechip]

Continued:

[Bonechip]

Inside Wiring, MB & such:

[Bonechip]

T-Moulding:



Control Panel installed:



Coin Doors & Misc done:

[Bonechip]

Moved inside and still doing misc wiring (cooler in the house lol). In these pics I have a black piece of poster board for the marquee as the fluorescent was blinding me and I don't have the money to get it printed out yet. The monitor bezel is made out of a large piece of semigloss black matting (for picture frames).



Turned on and testing the almighty Galaga:

[Bonechip]

All that needs to be done is make a back door (need more MDF), and the Marquee.... Good stuffs 

I have Mame, NES, Gameboy DS, Atari 2600, and Sega Genesis installed so far with all roms. Playing these games really brings back alot of memories. My kids are having a blast as well.

[drventure]

I like the double level front with the twin red tmold lines. It breaks up the front and give it more interest...

Well done

[wooowman93]

I love that really dark marquee that i can barely see

I'm joking

it looks good,No joke awesome stuff, amazing, mindblasting

[cmoses]

I like the double level front with the twin red tmold lines. It breaks up the front and give it more interest...

Well done

Yeah very nice looking.  I have the same cabinet that I am working on now.  Although I am going with blue T-molding.  I hope it "pops" like the red does.

Cab looks great, any thought to painting the aluminum piece on the bottom black?  My cabinet was all torn up there as well.  Took a lot of wood putty and sanding to get it looking good. 

[Ond]

I always feel compelled to comment on great attention to construction - lots of care and patience is evident here.  The black and red really works.  Very nice.

[Bonechip]

Thank you for the compliments, it truly was a labor of love hehe. Ever since I saw my first mame machine I wanted to make one for myself.

Hopefully I can scrape some money together soon to get the Marquee printed out so I can lose the black facade.

My wife wants to start a "sit-down" arcade cabinet soon for all of the driving roms hehe.... hooked.

[foleykoontz]

I think the whole cabinet looks great especially the t-molding. The one thing though that looks off for some reason is the monitor, it's obviously not centered vertically but even a 22" monitor looks akward in that big of a cab for some reason. Great job on the clean wiring job and everything else though.

[Martijn]

Yes, excellent work on the wiring inside the cab.

to bad that the screen is to small for the cab, shame.

Other then that. Good job

[Bonechip]

Well not all of us can afford a brand new arcade monitor hehe. I got the 22" for free, and being as how the cab didn't come with one, I considered myself lucky.

In building the cab tho, the monitor frame is "upgradeable" so when the time comes, I can add a larger one with minimal work.

[Spyridon]

Nicely done.  I agree that the monitor looks small in that cab, but like you said, that can be upgraded over time.  I'm going to be doing the same thing to a similar Midway cab, so this was a good reference.

[BASS!]

Man, that is a really great job on that wiring. The cab is great too, but you really planned out where everything was going very well. Good work!

[Gatsu]

that is a slick cab man. real great work. I doubt I can get edges to look that clean.

my only complaint is the monitor size. But like you and others said, that can be updated later. But you've got a real nice machine there.