The NEW Build Your Own Arcade Controls
Main => Project Announcements => Topic started by: Rook3 on October 03, 2005, 10:19:25 am
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I built this a few years back, with minimal available information and before the BYOA book was published. Having the book back then would have made this a lot easier.
http://www.rookscastle.com/arcade/mame.html
(http://www.rookscastle.com/arcade/mamecab1.jpg) (http://www.rookscastle.com/arcade/mamecab2.jpg)
It had a freakishly huge control panel. The overlay was my pride and joy. I spent a couple weeks just taking screen caps from mame and editing it all togeather. Some of it turned out fine, but some details were lost when printed.
(http://www.rookscastle.com/arcade/mamecab3.jpg)
(http://www.rookscastle.com/arcade/mamecab4.jpg)
Still a good learning process. My next cab will be better obviously, and the franken panel won't be so large King Kong can use it.
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rebuild that monster joybox!
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oh u sold it nvm
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Wooohooo!
Somebody with a thicker CP than mine. ;D
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im thinking of cutting into my cabinet to mount a larger cp..... but im not shure
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My panel was just WAAAAAAYYYYYY too big.
I even cut into the cabinet to mount it, but it was still not right. It was mounted about 6" too high for one thing, and I also made it from Plywood instead of MDF/Partical board. The next one I do from scratch WILL be partical board. Plywood sucks up paint like a sponge! I think I was also using spraypaint at the time as well.
Yeah, it was a learning process. Kind of like running a red light or smart mouthing to a policeman. Not a great thing to do. ;)
Russ
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Don't worry. I am sure you have had a blast on your own scratch built machine so stand proud and put anything learned down to experience.
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Rook, do you still have your Star Wars arcade game that is shown on your webpage? If so, please don't gut it like you suggested on the page.