My MAME Cabinet
The best single site for MAME cabinet information is: www.arcadecontrols.speedhost.com/arcade.htm. Check the "Examples" page for lots of examples (duh).
The
plans for the cabinet I made came from: cybertechdesign.
Here is a link to purchase the plans for 37.95 via PayPal: Control
interface used is the IPAC: www.ultimarc.com
I also bought the T-Stick joysticks there. They let you switch from
4-way to 8-way, and are great quality. The
control panel overlay is simply 3 sheets for the upper level, and 3
sheets for the main panel printed on my Epson 740 and taped together.
It is sandwiched between the particle board panel and a sheet of plexiglass.
The graphic I used was resized and flipped - it came from this site:
www.robboweb.com/mamecab/. The
larger section of the control panel is removable. I have secured it
using two metal braces in the back that just keep the panel from lifting
- and two angle braces in the front that secure with screws that mount
from underneath. The small upper section is permanently mounted, and
contains 1 and 2 player start plus 4 other buttons. These are: ESCAPE/PAGE
UP, PAUSE/PAGE DOWN, TAB/TILDE(`) and ENTER/F3. The
picture quality on the 27" TV is not quite what I had hoped for - my
goal is to run the games in their native resolution using a scan converter
and custom resolutions from the video card. See this page for more details:
www.trouble-makers.com/kami/emulation/main.html.
Still
to do: figure a way to mount plexi in front of the TV, get
a video card that will let me play with custom resolutions. New
pictures with the 27" Happ monitor bezel installed!!
Well, here are the pics:
The price is the same as buying directly from cybertechdesign - but I get a small percentage. So help a fellow Mamer out if you feel like it!
I have made some changes here and there - the biggest changes were enlarging
the width to accomodate a 27" TV, using 2x2's to join the parts
together and the removable control panel.
The
marquee image came from the same site, and I had it printed from this
site: http://www.emdkay.net/ -
great quality and price! I highly reccomend them!
