benheck.com Forums

I actually found a couple of local arcades that sell their empty cabinets pretty close by. One guy said he would work with me on getting a gutted SFII cabinet with a working monitor and buttons. Unfortunately he can't deliver it. Another guy though has gutted cabinets of all kinds including candy ...

I actually found a couple of local arcades that sell their empty cabinets pretty close by. One guy said he would work with me on getting a gutted SFII cabinet with a working monitor and buttons. Unfortunately he can't deliver it. Another guy though has gutted cabinets of all kinds including candy ...

I actually found a couple of local arcades that sell their empty cabinets pretty close by. One guy said he would work with me on getting a gutted SFII cabinet with a working monitor and buttons. Unfortunately he can't deliver it. Another guy though has gutted cabinets of all kinds including candy ...

Try this place NorthCoast Custom Arcades

They have a decent number of cabinet designs that ship pre-cut and are easy to assemble like most furniture these days.
Their Upright design seems great for a MAME project, and has a slide out keyboard spot with still having a typical control panel on top ...

I have no idea, I honestly didn't think that far ahead when I answered (been running on no sleep all weekend), and I apologize for that. At first I was thinking a joy2key-like method with the chute that would trigger a background app to put everything on a timer, but I would have no idea on how to ...

ChaosAlchemyst wrote:I am aware of that, and that's why I want to go that route. I think he was asking if you couldn't just directly wire the coin switch to the buttons.

Yeah, that was pretty much what I was getting at. I thought I saw someone do something similar a while back but I could be mistaken.

I really don't know if this is possible but you could try buying a really cheap USB pad and soldering the triggers from the coin chutes to the buttons on the usb controller's board. Kind of low brow-ish but possibly a viable solution?

I lack the space and tools to build my own cabinet from scratch. I have the PC components (I also have a working SFII board in case I get bored and want a dedicated machine), speakers, and about everything else other than buttons (I know where to get some already), and the cabinet it's self. Does ...