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i posted this a while back in the retro games thread but I would like a fun thread here where people can post their MAME cabinets or awesome MAME cabinets they have seen, or even terrible MAME cabinets (those are always my favorite). I didn't wanna make a big Games effort post OP because I don't want peeps to get mad at me if I don't update the OP with the latest and greatest in MAME happenings i bought this huge POS in 2008 for $300:  it sat like that for years and years because I was not sure of where it's "final resting place" was going to be and I didn't wanna gently caress up the artwork moving it from the garage to the basement or whatever. So the thing sat in my garage for years while I kept telling myself I would get to it. Then sometime this year I got a huge fire under my rear end because we had a new room done in our house and I thought it would be perfect for it (I also had some time off from work and I worked on it while my wife and kid and newborn napped). my goal was: make a 4 player MAME cabinet that supports a lot of games without looking like a Frankenpanel. So this is what I came up with:  I ended up filling in 6 holes: two of the ones above where the trackball was going, and 2 buttons each for players 3 and 4 since no 4 player games in existence use all 6 buttons.  Looks like dogshit but spraypaint made it look nice:  my 2nd goal was to use an original CRT. Like if it was literally impossible to get an arcade CRT for some reason I would have not even bothered because of how much I hate LCDs in arcade cabinets. If you have one in yours, cool. I just can't stand it visually.  if you are interested, this is what Windows 7 looks like on an arcade monitor:  my 3rd goal was to not have it look like a MAME cabinet at all. I really hate MAME cabinets that say JERRY'S ARCADE PARADISE on the marquee and the sideart is the guy from Contra running around with Luigi and Baby Pac-Man. So I measured the cabinet and determined it was originally a TMNT machine from 1989. This was great because I could "easily" restore it back to that, which is what I started doing:  the only beef i had with the TMNT cabinet is there is only one speaker hole because TMNT is a mono game. I didn't want to cut a 2nd speaker hole (it would look like poo poo) so i did this:   bam! 2speakers 1hole the sides of the cabinet looked like poo poo  so I had to cut out the bottoms and replace 'em   spraypainted and sanded like 5 goddamn times so the sides would be perfect for the new sideart:    almost done:  if you are wondering about the missing "extra" buttons, what I did was assign the P1 start button as a "shift" button, so if you press and hold P1 start and then press one of the player 3 buttons, the game will exit or pause (depending on which you press) which gets rid of the need to have extra buttons all over  one of my most favorite games (the SNES version sucks in comparison):  the dangling wire from the bottom left of the control panel is a keyboard hooked up over USB. I put two hidden USB ports under the control panel box because I will probably ad a light gun to this thing. If anyone has a light gun they recommend, let me know. Also, would it look really loving stupid if a TMNT cabinet had two light gun holsters on it? Be honest with me before I do this, please! oh and the buttons light up depending on which game you are playing so in Street Fighter 2 all 6 buttons light up but in Donkey Kong only 1 button lights up. The frontend software even speaks out loud telling you what button is for what every time you start a game! this is what it looks like with all the buttons lit up:  i know LEDs are pretty stupid but in this setup it actually serves a purpose so you know which buttons out of the 6 to use, or what button does what (pausing the game will also repeat the control information) here is what I used if anyone cares:
the only other thing i really want is a sit down racing game that i can mame so i can play racing games. i saw a non-working cruisin USA on craigslist for $500 and like an rear end in a top hat i didnt buy it. i would also like a cocktail pac man or something but they are too expensive. anyway please post if you have a mame cabinet, or any thoughts you have regarding arcades in the home, or even post really awesome or really lovely mame cabinets itt (in this thread)
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thats cool altho using suzo/happ parts is disgusting frankly
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Dec 4, 2017 18:06
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Looks awesome and it's cool you used a real arcade monitor
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Pablo Gigante posted:Looks awesome and it's cool you used a real arcade monitor thanks! yeah it's completely indiscernible from the real thing when using an actual arcade monitor (even a regular CRT TV is not good enough) and CRTemudriver i forgot to mention i have to use a special fork of MAME called groovymame that is specifically for people using arcade crts mysterious loyall X posted:thats cool altho using suzo/happ parts is disgusting frankly for some reason i thought happ was like standard default arcade manufacturer? i mean the only happ thing besides the 4 player coin door is the joysticks and i dont know how they could gently caress up a metal stick with a colored knob on it [insert mom joke about colored knobs here]
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Dec 4, 2017 18:21
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they are [ or were] standard on american style cabs yeah. ppl say they were better when they were manufactured in the usa but they've been made in china for the past 20 years. i've only had bad experiences on them on cabs and arcade sticks for home use
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Dec 4, 2017 18:24
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Your using, of all things, NOT Super Street Fighter IIX: The Grand Master Challenge in your mame cabinet? gently caress off.
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If you're going to insist on capitalizing MAME every single time like some sort of weirdo could you at least italicize it for full effect? Thanks.
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Cobalt Viper posted:If you're going to insist on capitalizing MAME every single time like some sort of weirdo could you at least italicize it for full effect? Thanks. It's an acronym for Multiple Arcade Machine Emulator. Topic Locked
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Dec 4, 2017 18:47
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You wouldn't write it "snes" either.
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FactsAreUseless posted:You wouldn't write it "snes" either.
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Cobalt Viper posted:If you're going to insist on capitalizing MAME every single time like some sort of weirdo could you at least italicize it for full effect? Thanks. ???????
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FactsAreUseless posted:You wouldn't write it "snes" either. You wouldn't download a car
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FactsAreUseless posted:You wouldn't write it "snes" either. 
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Cobalt Viper posted:snes You absolute mother fucker
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Pablo Gigante posted:You wouldn't download a car this really should have been the mario kart 8 DLC tagline
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Dec 4, 2017 19:08
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Looks cool ive always wanted to build a MAME cabinet. what tools are necessary to own to do a project like this
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Dec 4, 2017 21:35
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HORMELCHILI posted:Looks cool ive always wanted to build a MAME cabinet. what tools are necessary to own to do a project like this the tools I had to get that I didn't already have was a table saw (people practically give these away for free because they take up so much loving room) and a router. The router was so I could recess the controllers underneath the control panel and I also used it to make slots for the t-molding. if you dont need to replace any wood on the unit, you could get away with buying none of these. like if you bought a midway machine like Killer Instinct and you don't want a 4 player cab and it's in decent shape you could get away with zero tools
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Dec 4, 2017 21:58
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I just want a good place to play the initial d arcade stages.
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ilmucche posted:I just want a good place to play the initial d arcade stages. That place, my friend, is in your own home
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ilmucche posted:I just want a good place to play the initial d arcade stages. Try your nearest round 1 arcade. Or japan
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Oh yeah Round 1 loving owns They have Franziskaner beer there too which major bars don't even carry Love that place
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if anyone wasnt sure what to get me for chistmas ill just leave this little hint here 
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thats really badass OP
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extremebuff posted:thats really badass OP thank you. It was such a large amount of work (whether it looks that way or not) that i wanted to share. but I would also really like to see others MAME cabinets here also I need some opinions on that thing I mentioned. I went ahead and ordered two of these:  I got it in red and blue it's an arcade lightgun compatible with every gun game ever made. the only conundrum: will this look idiotic attached to a TMNT cabinet?
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you are the one who decided that sonic sipping a beer with contra man, pac man ghost and solid snake was dumb. what do you think the answer to your question is?
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MAME cabinets always look idiotic. I mean, you have like 20 buttons, 4 joysticks and a trackball. A gun is just icing on the lovely looking cake. But they're not made for prettiness, they're to play games with. So hell, stick a Sega Bass Fishing reel on there. Whatever floats your boat. How did you redo the bottom exactly? Glue, nails, bubble gum?
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Domus posted:MAME cabinets always look idiotic. I mean, you have like 20 buttons, 4 joysticks and a trackball. A gun is just icing on the lovely looking cake. But they're not made for prettiness, they're to play games with. So hell, stick a Sega Bass Fishing reel on there. Whatever floats your boat. I guess I will just make it so the guns can be attached when needed, instead of having them always connected. Which was originally what I wanted to do except this somehow fucks with MAME as the guns get assigned a new number every time you unplug them and plug them back in  I thought I did an OK job with making it not look like a ridiculous MAME cabinet with the trackball being the only thing making it blatantly obvious that it was a MAME cabinet, but I did try to make it look as stock as possible  hey at least I didn't add a steering wheel and gas pedal.  Domus posted:
The bottom was done by using a circular saw to cut out all the hosed up wood. Then I just bought new wood, and cut that. I put it in place and on the inside of the cabinet, I put a small block of wood for the new piece on the side to stick to. I used screws on the inside, then I used recessed screws on the outside of the cabinet. I then used some wood glue on the inside just to make sure it was good. I was certain that when I picked it up off the floor, the few seconds it was completely tilted onto the bottom side it would have snapped right off but incredibly it did not. Then I had to use a decent amount of wood filler and some bondo and sanding to make the sides match up perfectly. With the sideart on it looks identical to the rest of the cabinet
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you should build recessed holsters
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HORMELCHILI posted:you should build recessed holsters that...is actually a really good idea. Thank you!
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that looks cool OP
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extremely steampunk posted:that looks cool OP Thank you  I was kinda hoping some of youse guys had a MAME cabinet they could share , but if not, maybe this thread can just be a thread to post pics of funny MAME cabinets, like this one:
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            can't leave out cocktail cabinets: 
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lmfao at the pinball one
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thats really cool OP. how many hours total do you think you spent working on making that bad boy?
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trying to jack off posted:lmfao at the pinball one Yeah seriously, pinMAME machines are pretty cool (plasma TV laying flat with a ton of pinball games) but that one had my head spinning and somehow I found another one like that:  here's some more  (I'm the LCD in front of the CRT)     looks like it belongs in a hotel bathroom
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8 buttons
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I want to give you props because -- well done! And a freaking CRT.
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rediscover posted:thats really cool OP. how many hours total do you think you spent working on making that bad boy? Thanks pal! It's really hard to put a number on but if I had to guess I'd say 65 hours total? But understand a lot if that included trial and error like me trying to heat gun and sand off the black paint for two days until just giving up and using citrus stripper. I am really bad at following a million directions all at once and preferred to learn things one at a time. I didn't even know what front end I was going to use until the day I finished all the manual labor Worst part was painting and sanding the sides because it's basically always cold up here in Vermont so I had to do this poo poo in the garage and I got paint dust all over the goddamn garage and I had to remove every single thing in the garage in the end and clean it off. I had to sand and paint like six different times to make sure the side art was going onto a flawless surface If I would have bought a tmnt cabinet with side art and wood still in good condition it would have cut the time in half Zeluth posted:I want to give you props because -- well done! And a freaking CRT. And believe it or not I got a brand new one in the box from a guy who had it in storage for 13 years for some reason! It's the very last 25" low resolution crt wells garner arcade monitor ever made!  Since then I still have not seen a new in the box
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Uncle at Nintendo posted:Thanks pal! It's really hard to put a number on but if I had to guess I'd say 65 hours total? But understand a lot if that included trial and error like me trying to heat gun and sand off the black paint for two days until just giving up and using citrus stripper. I am really bad at following a million directions all at once and preferred to learn things one at a time. I didn't even know what front end I was going to use until the day I finished all the manual labor I like Launchbox a lot, good pick.
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Launchbox is the best frontend I’ve found
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