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This
was actually the first arcade cabinet that we ever tackled... The idea
originally was to get on the back page of Maximum PC magazine with a
crazy PC mod, but we soon discovered that we weren't the first people
to ever dream up a Mame cabinet. It started with a $10 empty cabinet
purchased at an auction from the "dead row", and after some
sanding, we discovered that it was actually an old Defender cabinet!
The artwork was pretty messed up, and so was the cabinet, so the sides
were completely sanded, filled, and sanded again. After a couple of
coats of paint, it looked like a million bucks. The cabinet did not
come with a control panel, but that was ok, because we decided to go
with an X-Arcade controller, which worked out pretty good. We had to
move a few of the buttons to get it to fit into such a tight spot, so
we built a little box to go inside the coin door to hold the drives
and buttons. The power button is located inside the coin door, so you
can lock the door, and then nobody can turn the machine on (great for
keeping your buddy's off your machine when you're not around!). We also
decided to wire snap-switches to the coin-rejects, so when you pressed
the coin-reject, you were basically inserting a quarter. The monitor
came off of eBay, and it was out of an old poker machine of some kind,
but it was VGA, so that worked out well with the $500 home-made computer.
The art came from a fella that was looking for someone to help him out
with a website, so we got that for free. It's really nice art, unfortunately,
he's not doing it anymore! All in all, it came out pretty nice. It sold
on eBay for around $1200 a couple of years ago to a doctor in Myrtle
Beach. We haven't heard from him in awhile, we hope our baby is doing
well... |
At rest... |
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...and
at play (yup, Robotron!) |
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The X-Arcade
was an easy solution for us... |
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But we
still needed a keyboard and mouse for Windows! Probably could've slapped
a coat of paint on the coin door! |
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You won't
find that behind too many coin doors! |
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That's
the setup inside, your looking at the back of the coin door in the front,
mobo mounted directly to the side of the cabinet on the right. The power
supply is in front of the mobo. We actually chopped a drive bay cage
out of an Antec cabinet to mount the drives. We had to sawzall the front
of the cabinet to mount the keyboard/mouse drawer. The cold-cathode
light was a last-minute addition, in the spirit of PC modding (and to
light the keyboard!). |
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