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Well Im about 90% Done with my Mame Cabinet (***New Pictures of my Progress***)

J

jcovercash

Diamond Member
So I got my T-Molding the other day, Got some plexi Glass ready for my Marquee and waitedfor the marquee to arrive. I also scraped the old paint off the glass and masked it off and painted it..... It still has some straches im going to get another peice as soon as I can get some money rounded up 😛, as Ive hit a snag in funds because of havng to put tires on my car.
So I finnaly got it today and decided I was going to put everything I had done up to that point tegather 😛

Sorry again for the really crappy quality pictures but Im working on getting a better camera to take pictures of it when I'm done.

Removing the Old Paint from the glass......
This was a real pain but saved me a little money for right now...... because I can always replace the glass later on.

All Clean 😀

Masking off the Area I dont want painted.
I couldnt find any actual paint on mask so I used this window cling on stuff, it worked really well too.

All the parts together, tested and working 😀
Specs are here, im not sure on the MB Model # as I didnt really look

The marquee in all its beauty
Got this from Mame Marquees, Really great people and even greater service.....

T-Molding Installed
A Couple wacks with the hammer and all was well 🙂

Moniter bezel in place......
Im thinking of not painting the next peice of glass as I like the look of the moniter bezel better than the painted glass. What do you think?

Glass in place
Do you think it would look better like that or just clear glass?

Marquee installed.
Side View


Im really happy with the results of everything so far. Im just not sure what im going to do about the glass. I probally want paint the next peice I really like the look of the bezel. I can armor all it and give it a nice little shine 🙂

All I have to do now is, Install the Marquee Light, Mount the Computer, Hook up the speakers and Sub, And Build my controls 😀

I cant wait,

Thanks for looking,
Josh
 
Out of curiousity, what are you building for controls? On my mame setup, I use a Hotrod II which is awesome if you haven't heard of it. It's basically a giant joystick controller that has all the original arcade controls. Two analog sticks (the exact style) and all of the buttons including the 1-2 player, the 6 button rows, and even an insert coin button. It's all laid out like an original arcade setup, and MAME supports it natively. (it uses a keyboard pass through) I use that with a 21" monitor and a Duron 800 box with about 6 GB of roms.
 
I'm jealous, nice work. I'm most interested in your control configuration and how easy it goes for you.
 
Very nice! I'm also interested in your controls. Please post what they are...

I definitley want to build one myself....


 
Link to the Hotrod

This is basically what I use. I would imagine it wouldn't be too difficult to incorporate such a device into your cabinet with a little ingenuity. The controls on this feel very accurate to the originals, down to the button tension.


:Q This thing costs 200 bucks now! A local shop carried them a few years back and a buddy picked it up for 80 bones and later donated it to me for lack of a decent setup for it. Lots of good info on that site that might help you out regardless.
 
It looks good 🙂

however, reading one of your links, it said:
These Marquee are printed at 1000's of Dots per inch, on the best Premium Photo paper that is available...
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if the guy went to two print shops, and couldn't get it printed any better looking than off his home photo printer, he took it to Kinkos and Staples. And I guarantee it's not printed at "1000's of Dots per inch".

Had he brought it to our shop (when I used to do that) we could have it printed at photo quality on clear lexan. It's flexible, doesn't crease, can be backlit, and would cost about what he's charging for something printed on his Epson Photo 1280.

Seems like a nice enough guy and all, but I don't think he knows much about printing.
 
Man, wish I had the knowledge, oh, and the cash to hook that up!!! That would be a sweet addition to our basement! For now, i've got to worry about getting a controller just so I can play on my PC.......
 
Originally posted by: BatmanNate
Link to the Hotrod

This is basically what I use. I would imagine it wouldn't be too difficult to incorporate such a device into your cabinet with a little ingenuity. The controls on this feel very accurate to the originals, down to the button tension.


:Q This thing costs 200 bucks now! A local shop carried them a few years back and a buddy picked it up for 80 bones and later donated it to me for lack of a decent setup for it. Lots of good info on that site that might help you out regardless.
Click to expand...


200 bills, WOW.. Is there anything comperable for lett dollars???
 
Originally posted by: BatmanNate
Out of curiousity, what are you building for controls? On my mame setup, I use a Hotrod II which is awesome if you haven't heard of it. It's basically a giant joystick controller that has all the original arcade controls. Two analog sticks (the exact style) and all of the buttons including the 1-2 player, the 6 button rows, and even an insert coin button. It's all laid out like an original arcade setup, and MAME supports it natively. (it uses a keyboard pass through) I use that with a 21" monitor and a Duron 800 box with about 6 GB of roms.
Click to expand...

Well the hotrod is nice and all but its not for me. I will be buying actual arcade controller parts from
Happ Controls, and then using the ipac device from Ultimarc to connect it to the PC. It is a fairly simple process. It will only cost me aproximatly $110 to get the whole setup working + cost of the mouting material.

it will also look alot better than sticking a $200 peice of wood on top of my beautiful cabinet 😀

Josh
 
Originally posted by: notfred
It looks good 🙂

however, reading one of your links, it said:
These Marquee are printed at 1000's of Dots per inch, on the best Premium Photo paper that is available...
Click to expand...

if the guy went to two print shops, and couldn't get it printed any better looking than off his home photo printer, he took it to Kinkos and Staples. And I guarantee it's not printed at "1000's of Dots per inch".

Had he brought it to our shop (when I used to do that) we could have it printed at photo quality on clear lexan. It's flexible, doesn't crease, can be backlit, and would cost about what he's charging for something printed on his Epson Photo 1280.

Seems like a nice enough guy and all, but I don't think he knows much about printing.
Click to expand...

Ohhhh, Hmm when I called kinkos to get a quote for what you are talking about they wanted like 40 bucks :-/....... Ill go there in person next time perhaps. Im really happy with it though for the money it looks really good. I just smashed it in between 2 peices of plexi and it works fine.

But thanks for your input and ill look into that next time.

Josh

 
Originally posted by: AMDman12GHz
Originally posted by: notfred
It looks good 🙂

however, reading one of your links, it said:
These Marquee are printed at 1000's of Dots per inch, on the best Premium Photo paper that is available...
Click to expand...

if the guy went to two print shops, and couldn't get it printed any better looking than off his home photo printer, he took it to Kinkos and Staples. And I guarantee it's not printed at "1000's of Dots per inch".

Had he brought it to our shop (when I used to do that) we could have it printed at photo quality on clear lexan. It's flexible, doesn't crease, can be backlit, and would cost about what he's charging for something printed on his Epson Photo 1280.

Seems like a nice enough guy and all, but I don't think he knows much about printing.
Click to expand...

Ohhhh, Hmm when I called kinkos to get a quote for what you are talking about they wanted like 40 bucks :-/....... Ill go there in person next time perhaps. Im really happy with it though for the money it looks really good. I just smashed it in between 2 peices of plexi and it works fine.

But thanks for your input and ill look into that next time.

Josh
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I'm sure it looks decent. Those printers do have pretty good output, but I could print the same thing on my $99 photo printer. (if you have the 8.5" wide one) for about a buck.

 
Originally posted by: AMDman12GHz
Originally posted by: BatmanNate
Out of curiousity, what are you building for controls? On my mame setup, I use a Hotrod II which is awesome if you haven't heard of it. It's basically a giant joystick controller that has all the original arcade controls. Two analog sticks (the exact style) and all of the buttons including the 1-2 player, the 6 button rows, and even an insert coin button. It's all laid out like an original arcade setup, and MAME supports it natively. (it uses a keyboard pass through) I use that with a 21" monitor and a Duron 800 box with about 6 GB of roms.
Click to expand...

Well the hotrod is nice and all but its not for me. I will be buying actual arcade controller parts from
Happ Controls, and then using the ipac device from Ultimarc to connect it to the PC. It is a fairly simple process. It will only cost me aproximatly $110 to get the whole setup working + cost of the mouting material.

it will also look alot better than sticking a $200 peice of wood on top of my beautiful cabinet 😀

Josh
Click to expand...


Sweet. The Hotrod uses the Happ's too according to the page, I figured it might give you ideas if you didn't have any already.
 
Originally posted by: BatmanNate
Originally posted by: AMDman12GHz
Originally posted by: BatmanNate
Out of curiousity, what are you building for controls? On my mame setup, I use a Hotrod II which is awesome if you haven't heard of it. It's basically a giant joystick controller that has all the original arcade controls. Two analog sticks (the exact style) and all of the buttons including the 1-2 player, the 6 button rows, and even an insert coin button. It's all laid out like an original arcade setup, and MAME supports it natively. (it uses a keyboard pass through) I use that with a 21" monitor and a Duron 800 box with about 6 GB of roms.
Click to expand...

Well the hotrod is nice and all but its not for me. I will be buying actual arcade controller parts from
Happ Controls, and then using the ipac device from Ultimarc to connect it to the PC. It is a fairly simple process. It will only cost me aproximatly $110 to get the whole setup working + cost of the mouting material.

it will also look alot better than sticking a $200 peice of wood on top of my beautiful cabinet 😀

Josh
Click to expand...


Sweet. The Hotrod uses the Happ's too according to the page, I figured it might give you ideas if you didn't have any already.
Click to expand...


Yea I originally looked at the hotrod, But decided that I could do it mayself, make it look like i wanted, and Come out cheaper in the end.

My dad works at a machine shop and he is going to cut the control panel base out of brushed aluminum for me 😛, he said we would see how that looked and if it didnt look good that we could just put some contact paper over it....

Josh
 
Originally posted by: AMDman12GHz
Originally posted by: BatmanNate
Originally posted by: AMDman12GHz
Originally posted by: BatmanNate
Out of curiousity, what are you building for controls? On my mame setup, I use a Hotrod II which is awesome if you haven't heard of it. It's basically a giant joystick controller that has all the original arcade controls. Two analog sticks (the exact style) and all of the buttons including the 1-2 player, the 6 button rows, and even an insert coin button. It's all laid out like an original arcade setup, and MAME supports it natively. (it uses a keyboard pass through) I use that with a 21" monitor and a Duron 800 box with about 6 GB of roms.
Click to expand...

Well the hotrod is nice and all but its not for me. I will be buying actual arcade controller parts from
Happ Controls, and then using the ipac device from Ultimarc to connect it to the PC. It is a fairly simple process. It will only cost me aproximatly $110 to get the whole setup working + cost of the mouting material.

it will also look alot better than sticking a $200 peice of wood on top of my beautiful cabinet 😀

Josh
Click to expand...


Sweet. The Hotrod uses the Happ's too according to the page, I figured it might give you ideas if you didn't have any already.
Click to expand...


Yea I originally looked at the hotrod, But decided that I could do it mayself, make it look like i wanted, and Come out cheaper in the end.

My dad works at a machine shop and he is going to cut the control panel base out of brushed aluminum for me 😛, he said we would see how that looked and if it didnt look good that we could just put some contact paper over it....

Josh
Click to expand...


That's just sweet. This is an awesome project, btw. Out of curiousity, what OS will you run? Also, will there be input other than the standard controls for the necesary OS functions or will it be automated? Will games be deleivered via the network?
 
Originally posted by: BatmanNate
Originally posted by: AMDman12GHz
Originally posted by: BatmanNate
Originally posted by: AMDman12GHz
Originally posted by: BatmanNate
Out of curiousity, what are you building for controls? On my mame setup, I use a Hotrod II which is awesome if you haven't heard of it. It's basically a giant joystick controller that has all the original arcade controls. Two analog sticks (the exact style) and all of the buttons including the 1-2 player, the 6 button rows, and even an insert coin button. It's all laid out like an original arcade setup, and MAME supports it natively. (it uses a keyboard pass through) I use that with a 21" monitor and a Duron 800 box with about 6 GB of roms.
Click to expand...

Well the hotrod is nice and all but its not for me. I will be buying actual arcade controller parts from
Happ Controls, and then using the ipac device from Ultimarc to connect it to the PC. It is a fairly simple process. It will only cost me aproximatly $110 to get the whole setup working + cost of the mouting material.

it will also look alot better than sticking a $200 peice of wood on top of my beautiful cabinet 😀

Josh
Click to expand...


Sweet. The Hotrod uses the Happ's too according to the page, I figured it might give you ideas if you didn't have any already.
Click to expand...


Yea I originally looked at the hotrod, But decided that I could do it mayself, make it look like i wanted, and Come out cheaper in the end.

My dad works at a machine shop and he is going to cut the control panel base out of brushed aluminum for me 😛, he said we would see how that looked and if it didnt look good that we could just put some contact paper over it....

Josh
Click to expand...


That's just sweet. This is an awesome project, btw. Out of curiousity, what OS will you run? Also, will there be input other than the standard controls for the necesary OS functions or will it be automated? Will games be deleivered via the network?
Click to expand...

It will be running the original OS (DOS BABY 🙂) It will also have windows 98 se on it too, but will boot into dos and automatically launch Mame. I will have a wireless kb and mouse setup with a small port on the front for it to work. 98 will only be used to get the files from over the network and to setup drivers and stuff.

I havew a .bat file written to launch Mame, and arcade os. I have already tested it and it works great.

 
Sweet. I didn't even know that MAME was an OS, I've used the Win32 and linux version of the program only. Under the MAME OS can you navigate roms effectively with the joysticks?
 
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