Project Twisted Mame

[guinea13]

Started my first Mame project.  Man what a project so far.  Spent most of my time repairing the cab so far.

Here are some pics of it:








Here is the CP dissasembled



Here is what was under the side art




Here is  some of the damage I found



25" Polo Monitor

[guinea13]

Here is my shop





Here is what I found under the second layer of plastic or covering.  Kinda cool.  I might keep it because it is painted on.

[Octo]

Nice, that "Buck fin Laden" sticker sure does class it up

[guinea13]

Nice, that "Buck fin Laden" sticker sure does class it up

I was thinking of keeping it but it wasn't easy getting it off.

It was a little redneck before I got it.

[guinea13]

Create a template to see how everything would fit.  Need to create a template to router out the joysticks better. 

Here are my list of parts for the project so far:

1 - Happ 3" lighted blue trackball
2 - Happ rotary mech
2 - U360
1 - Ultimarc Rotary Interface board
1 - Ipac 4
1 - ArcadeVGA card
14 - Blue concave buttons
4 - Orange concave buttonsA
4 - Black concave buttons
4 - White concave buttons
4 - Red concave buttons 

I bought some extra buttons so I can figure out which ones I like best and put those it.  I am going to coin buttons on the bottom of the CP to give some room and hide the buttons at the same time.


So far I like the placement of the joysticks and buttons because there is no interference when using either joystick or set of buttons.

[guinea13]

Got all of the side art and vinyl off.  What a pain that was.  Fixed the front and bottom of the case.  Preped and painted the case with Hammered paint.  I love that way paint looks.  Also finished the cp cut out.  Now on to fitting it all together. 

I liked mayhem's idea on the touchscreen so I created a recess in mine for a lilliput 8".  It fits pretty nicely and has a nice viewing angle.

Here are a couple of pics:

[guinea13]

Got alot of my project wired up (need to post pics).

But I have a question:

If this is going to be a 2 player cp with 4 joysticks should I still wire it as a 4 player? Then use the software to configure each game to which joysticks I want to use?

Also,  Should I have 4 player buttons and coins? or just wire the 2 I have now to each of the 1+3 & 2+4 coin spots on the IPAC4.