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    Default Just finsihed my mame cabinet

    got given an old arcade cabinet 1 joystick 1 button upright cabinet
    stripped the guts out it
    made a new control panel out of mdf
    added some mca buttons and joystick
    has a ipaq2 keyboard emulator
    now room for coin mech so got some 20C coin slot looking buttons
    uses a $99 ebay desktop hp case cel 2.0ghz put a 160 gig drive into it
    ripped a mame logo of google and got it screen printed
    then off to mates panel beater
    he had some nissan royal blue 2 pac left over so out it to use
    i then added a power switch to back of cab to shut down
    using tiny xp ver 8 with mamewah front end

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    Nice,.. I'm 2, maybe 3 projects away from getting back to starting a cabinet.

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    Fantastic work Marty, really impressed

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    Gee Marty, I'm always telling you that you have too much time on your hands.....

    Great effort mate.

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    great job

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    Great Job...Looks Good

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    Very nice...

    What size screen is in there,

    Are you only running Mame?

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    Looks great!

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    Ohhh I want one now LOL
    When you do things right, people won't be sure that you have done anything at all

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    Very Nice.

    Looks like you need a spot to store your keyboard though. Love the MAME bit across the top.
    Coding in C is like sending a 3 year old to do groceries. You gotta tell them exactly what you want or you'll end up with a cupboard full of pop tarts and pancake mix.

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    that is a sweet looking unit

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    Noice - I definitely need to finish my cab now......

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    Quote Originally Posted by Crafty View Post
    Very nice...

    What size screen is in there,

    Are you only running Mame?
    mate got a 19" lcd not wide screen
    chime screen the reason is the screen when you apply power it defaults to standbye mode
    the acer i had you had to hit the power button each time you powered it up from switch witch meant lifting glass

    looking at a jukebox front end not decided what to use

    plans are under way to convert a 20" table machine

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    Thats cool i have not seen that for ages i had a mate build a table machine about ten years ago and it was sweet

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    Wow! That looks great. First time I have seen your work marty and I am loving it! Keep it up!

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    Top looking unit marty, looks just like a bought model

    Well done.

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    Marty, nice work mate.
    I am glad you kept the control panel sensible. A lot of people seem to go for the "cram every fkn widget possible onto the control panel" approach. Trackballs, knobs, sliders, guns, wheels, 4 way, 8 way, whistles, etc.
    99% of games need a pair of 8 way sticks and 3 buttons, some need 6, maximum.

    For your Jukebox program, I use Arcade Jukebox.
    Works nicely, very configurable.

    I normally use Game Launcher for the MAME menu, it's full screen and can handle a rotated screen and is completely configurable as well. It's not easy to set up but when you get it right it is nice.

    The other thing I like about Game Launcher is the fact that I can interface other emulators to it, NES, C64, Amiga, etc... So my MAME boxes have 5000 MAME games, around 30,000 commodore 64 games, etc etc etc..

    What I have done is made one mame machine with all the software set up, then the next machine gets a cloned hard drive with new motherboard drivers.
    I have built 9 MAME cabinets now and they just keep getting better each time.

    My next step is to dump the bloated XP and run a version of TinyXP so it boots up quick.
    Can you give me any info here???
    What sort of boot times does your machine have, shut down??
    Any problems running tinyxp??

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    A work of art and even a pic of my fav game.

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    Great cabinet, what was the approximate cost ?

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    That's a mint looking cabinet!

    I wish I had handman skills. If you're ever in the business of making some $$ from the units, I'd definately be in the market to purchase one.

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