There's *going to be* a new MAME cabinet in town.

khaag · Post by **khaag** » Tue Nov 14, 2006 9:26 pm

Well I'm working on the next-gen mame cabinet and have got pretty far on the construction. Here's a few pics:

Side-view closeup:

Side-view:

Front-view:

This weekend i'm gonna work on getting the rest of the panels on, and building the controls.

Wish me luck,
khaag

Metroid fan · Post by **Metroid fan** » Tue Nov 14, 2006 9:31 pm

Looking really good so far, keep it up!

Post by **CronoTriggerfan** » Tue Nov 14, 2006 9:37 pm

Agreed. Great stuff! Are you going to be putting any custom emblems on it, and what's the color scheme going to be? CRT or LCD?

CTFan

MESAJARJARBINKS · Post by **MESAJARJARBINKS** » Tue Nov 14, 2006 9:46 pm

MAME stands for two things
Multiple Arcade Machine Emulator
or
Most Arcade Machines Ever
wait three...
or
Must Aquire Mame Early

atari2600a · Post by **atari2600a** » Tue Nov 14, 2006 11:04 pm

If I fail in finding a good RGB monitor to go w/ my MVS mobo, I might slap a PC in my cab & put MAME on it (in which I will compile beta releases & update it weekly)

Super Cameraman · Post by **Super Cameraman** » Wed Nov 15, 2006 5:28 am

Nice! I love my MAME, I hope you like yours!

-Super

ganonbanned · Post by **ganonbanned** » Wed Nov 15, 2006 7:10 am

That does look cool. I was going to build a MAME with all NES, SNES, and N64 games on it, and had it all planned out. never did it though.

khaag · Post by **khaag** » Wed Nov 15, 2006 9:58 am

I glued the Control Panel graphics onto some 5/8" plywood yesterday. Later it will be covered with acryilic 1/8" lucite:

Control Panel:

sammy · Post by **sammy** » Wed Nov 15, 2006 1:55 pm

Looks really nice. I wanna make an arcade too, but I don't have enough space.

I saw something great on ebay once. It was a Super Famicom game selector. It's like a super famicom but with 12 games or so in the case and you just press the button of the game you wanna play. Really cool and it was only 200$, but the shipping was too high

If I ever see one again I will buy it for sure! Connect two Snes max's to it, a good rgb monitor and a nice cabinet and you've got a beauty of an arcade machine!

khaag · Post by **khaag** » Sun Dec 10, 2006 5:26 pm

OK, so I got the controls from Happ yesterday and just finished drilling the holes with a hole saw. I thought I'd post a pic of the almost complete control panel. Still waiting for the Keywiz Keyboard Encoder to arrive.

Well anyway, here it is:

EDIT: Maybe a mod should move this to the arcade forum? Just a thought...

Super Cameraman · Post by **Super Cameraman** » Sun Dec 10, 2006 5:56 pm

That looks great! But four buttons may not be enough. I have six for each player. And what about player 1/2 buttons, coin buttons, escape button?

-Super

khaag · Post by **khaag** » Sun Dec 10, 2006 6:02 pm

Super Cameraman wrote:That looks great! But four buttons may not be enough. I have six for each player. And what about player 1/2 buttons, coin buttons, escape button?

-Super

I thought about that, but decided against 6 buttons. Also about the player 1/2, and coin buttons, I forgot about those at the time i placed the original order from Happ and only remembered about them yesterday when I finished attaching the buttons, so those will be coming soon. And about the Escape button, there will be an external keyboard attached which will allow for more than 2 player support.

And do you have any pics of your cabinet super camera man?

Super Cameraman · Post by **Super Cameraman** » Mon Dec 11, 2006 4:28 pm

Sure do! But just so your know, I didn't build it, my uncle did.

The two blue buttons on top don't do anything, and I have no clue what the green button on the right does. The coin buttons are a must, sorry you don't have them. I have a wireless keyboard for mine, but I only use it to find games. What version of Mame are you going to use? I use Mame32. I like it. The mouse is also a great thing to have built in, but I'm sure you could just use a joystick.

Hope I'm not taking over the thread!

-Super

EDIT: Sorry for the horrible pictures, my camera is almost out of memory, so I turned the resolution down to 640 by 480.

Turbo Tax 1.0 · Post by **Turbo Tax 1.0** » Mon Dec 11, 2006 4:34 pm

cool cab camera man

looks real good

and sweet progress Haag, i like the background for the buttons

Super Cameraman · Post by **Super Cameraman** » Mon Dec 11, 2006 4:35 pm

Oh yeah, forgot to mention that! I love the background for the buttons! Looks way better than my black (chipping) paint!

-Super

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