dsheinem's "MAME Cabinet in a Month(ish)" project - DONE!?

[bryan_65]

I just had to say that this looks awesome, great job man. I have one question for ya. Are you gonna be able to hook some light guns up to this?

[dsheinem]

I just had to say that this looks awesome, great job man. I have one question for ya. Are you gonna be able to hook some light guns up to this?

I may eventually do it "right", but for now I plan to hook up some Guncons to the PS2 that is hiding underneath. I have these PS1 light gun games:

Time Crisis
Point Blank
Point Blank II
Lethal Enforcers I and II
Elemental Gearbolt
Area 51

So that will keep me busy with lightgun games for now, but I will be on the lookout for some more in the genre soon. This will have to do until I can figure out a way to hook up some of those MAME-specific lightguns.

I plan to have everything together by tomorrow evening, though it looks like my marquee probably won't be here on time . Side art is a concern for a later date at this point.

[CRTGAMER]

I just had to say that this looks awesome, great job man. I have one question for ya. Are you gonna be able to hook some light guns up to this?

I may eventually do it "right", but for now I plan to hook up some Guncons to the PS2 that is hiding underneath. I have these PS1 light gun games:

Time Crisis
Point Blank
Point Blank II
Lethal Enforcers I and II
Elemental Gearbolt
Area 51

So that will keep me busy with lightgun games for now, but I will be on the lookout for some more in the genre soon. This will have to do until I can figure out a way to hook up some of those MAME-specific lightguns.

I plan to have everything together by tomorrow evening, though it looks like my marquee probably won't be here on time . Side art is a concern for a later date at this point.

If you like House of the Dead, there is PS2 Vampire Night. Is your CRT a ED, 480p capable? The PS2 Guncon 2 won't work on a HD CRT but it does have a 480p mode, I think might work on EDTVs.

[dsheinem]

Ok, this is as close as it is getting to done before the meet tomorrow, unless my marquee magically arrives today. This is about where I wanted to have it, and am overall very happy (more on quibbles at the end).

Here it is running MAME (ESP.Ra.De)



...and from the other side



The nettop PC, keyboard, and mouse sits in the drawer, the PS2 and Dreamcast and all the cables are underneath. The Xbox is there for now, but won't be permanently. It is there for Steel Battalion only.



Here is is running Tekken 5



...and Cannon Spike



and here's my temp sideart




Things still left to do:

-put in the marquee, and fix the bottom marquee shelf. The shelf was the last thing I put in but I am pretty sure I will need to adjust it when the Marquee arrives. It doesn't fit perfectly now anyway.

-recess the door. I don't have the right bit, apparently, so I need to pick one up to but the proper hinges on. It is just sitting on standard L hinges right now.

-touch up the cabinet paint - I'll do this next weekend when it moves to its permanent room.

-install a coin door (probably just cosmetic).

-install real sideart.

but those are mostly minor things, and the goal of having the cabinet in good playable and aesthetic shape by the meet has been met, in about 36 days.

In the future I may add a spinner/wheel combo, create an overlay for the X-arcade stick, and do some other minor things. But for now, I am quite happy with it.

[CRTGAMER]

Looks beautiful! This is one of the fastest built Arcade cabs I've seen posted.

[AppleQueso]

Definitely very nice, one of the better tankstick setups I've seen for sure.

[sevin0seven]

A job well done Dave!

[CRTGAMER]

Things still left to do:

-install a coin door (probably just cosmetic).

You could make the coin return button active. A microswitch behind it to operate the power or coins in Mame. In my modded Arcade Zaxxon stick, it became the Select button in PSX mode and the Return key in PC mode reconfigured for Mame coins.

Not pictured, Orange is the standard.

[Hobie-wan]

You could make the coin return button active. A microswitch behind it to operate the power or coins in Mame. In my Arcade stick it became the Select button in PSX mode and the Return key in PC mode reconfigured for Mame coins.

That would be pretty cool to set up the coin return as the power switch for the Mame computer. Would be easy too since it is just a momentary switch to turn a PC on. I guess the question would be whether your son might become enamored with its candy like glow and push it randomly as it would be in easy reach.

[CRTGAMER]

You could make the coin return button active. A microswitch behind it to operate the power or coins in Mame. In my Arcade stick it became the Select button in PSX mode and the Return key in PC mode reconfigured for Mame coins.

That would be pretty cool to set up the coin return as the power switch for the Mame computer. Would be easy too since it is just a momentary switch to turn a PC on. I guess the question would be whether your son might become enamored with its candy like glow and push it randomly as it would be in easy reach.

I am envisioning a twenty minute marathon stay alive Arcade game session. Ooooh, Bright Light! Bright Light!

Well, maybe as a key control such as coins in Mame. Let your son feed the free quarters.