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

[khaag]

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]

Looking really good so far, keep it up!

[CronoTriggerfan]

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]

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

[atari2600a]

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]

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


-Super

[ganonbanned]

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]

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]

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]

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]

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]

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]

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]

cool cab camera man looks real good

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

[Super Cameraman]

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

-Super