I'mma build a MAME cabinet (tips?)

[Arbys Roast Beef Sandwich]

As the topic says. I'm bored as crap and it might be good for a weekend project. Has anyone done anything similar?

[littlemathletics]

I haven't, but I know people who have. Best tip is: don't go for cheap parts. It's worth spending the money, cause you can tell the difference once you start putting some pressure on them.

[Arbys Roast Beef Sandwich]

it's hard as hell to find good cabs here where I live though. Best I could find was an old Neo-Geo beater that was going for 150.

[Arbys Roast Beef Sandwich]

makes sense, thanks. I'm gonna try and hit up a couple of arcades later.

[The Sceneman]

put your avatar real big on the side of it



it would look awesome

[Arbys Roast Beef Sandwich]

I wish I had a high-res version of that, I'd totally do it :'(

Anyway some guy wanted 300 for an Astro City cabinet, just the monitor and cabinet, no game. Will prolly pass because the cabinet looked pretty dirty.

So dcharlie, if I get an Astro City, it should normally be prewired and all that?

[muckhole]

dcharlie, since you seem to know a fair bit about this stuff, what's a good idea for a monitor for one of these? I have two old arcade cabinets that I'm quite sure the monitors are fried in, but I've been kicking around the idea of making a MAME cabinet because of this thread. Should I just shell out and replace a monitor, or is there another route (trying to shoehorn a pc monitor in there) that I should be looking at?

[Olivia Wilde Homo]

I've never gotten MAME to work without some crappy ass frontend that refuses to work with any game I want to play :'(

[muckhole]

dcharlie, since you seem to know a fair bit about this stuff, what's a good idea for a monitor for one of these? I have two old arcade cabinets that I'm quite sure the monitors are fried in, but I've been kicking around the idea of making a MAME cabinet because of this thread. Should I just shell out and replace a monitor, or is there another route (trying to shoehorn a pc monitor in there) that I should be looking at?

if you don't care about trying to get native resolutions etc out of the setup, it's a lot easier to do. In that case, you are really just looking at getting a 4:3 monitor that fits the gap. A rotatable one would be nice too (hello cave shooters )


It's only really if you want to use the old legacy monitor that it becomes a pain. Getting a "proper" replacement monitor for the arcades i'd assume is pretty expensive these days too.

Cool. Yeah, these are old. They're a Double Dragon and 1942 machine.