Just finished putting together my MAME cab
 

Just finished putting together my MAME cabinet! I LOVE this thing. This is something I've wanted to do for the longest and finally the chance presented itself. I found the empty cab with joysticks/buttons, light up marque, subwoofer, and built in speakers on eBay 2 hours away for a wopping 239.00 or best offer. This same cab with a monitor in it retails for 1699.00 I offered the guy 200.00 he bit and he delivered it to my door step. I then purchased a refurbed Dell tower and a refurbed Acer 20 inch LED monitor for a total of 165.00 so this whole thing cost me 365.00 to put together. I have a ton of arcade classics on here as well as NES, SNES, Sega Genesis, and N64 games. I am waiting for some VGA to USB adapters to get in so I can plug the joysticks into the PC and then I'll be rocking and rolling. this weekend. I also put a USB WIFI adapter so it can still surf the net. Of course mine will be used most of the time to play the old school turtles games.
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Looking good, thats the way to furnish a house

Cool as shell, dude! Nice stuff.

Really cool. :):):)

Cool looks awesome!

Thanks all here it is in it's finished glory!

Whats with the button layout? Looks wack. Though the cab art is nice.

good question, it's like that so you can also play PS2, XBOX, and Gamecube games with it as well. Has cables to plug up to each console.

That's not what I meant.

Cool arcade bro...

That's awesome. It must have taken forever to put it together.

Then I'm not really sure what you meant? The button layout is laid out in a way so that you can play those console games. They have lots of buttons and the front joysticks so this is why the buttons are the way they are.

thanks guys!

Wow! Very impressive...
2 Questions now... Where's the party at? And when are you inviting all of us? :P:lol::lol:

Seriously though, it all looks great! A nice way to bring excitement into a house party. No doubt I'm sure that took a lot of time and effort to include everything that you wanted out of this MAME cabinet.

Hope you have a lot of great memories with it! :)

Man, that's pretty spiffy. Congrats.

To me it looks like an odd placement for the stick and the 6 buttons. Doesn't look comfy for your hand.

Yeah it looks a bit like you'd have to develop a claw for some games.


Still want one.

I can see where you'd think that. The people that developed this control system did extensive testing with it and believe it or not it's really comfortable and you dont bump elbows with the person next to you.

Still looks boss as hell. I'm going to build my own MAME cabinet one day. Waiting on a house for that, though.

Exactly what I did. I bought my house 3 months ago and got to work on it!