Mame Machine

3 sheets of 3/4 inch MDF, 15 cans of spraypaint, over 150 countersunk drywall screws, 1/2 gallon of primer, 5 months of work, 20 trips to Lowes, many hours of research and ordering parts on ebay and craigslist..Equipped with a 2.4ghz P4 proccessor, one button on/off power supply, and an essential Guinness bottle opener. Special thanks to the following..Andy of www.ultimarc.com (make your life easy spend the money and buy an I-Pac it is worth it)..www.mamemarquees.com...Worth every penny I spent..www.mame.net..For providing the software..www.happcontrols.com for the joysticks and pushbuttons..www.lizardlick.com I am well satisfied with their T-moulding they sent me..www.arcadecontrols.com for inspiration..And the rest I soon don't forget on building a project like this...

Category:

Entertainment

Tags:

• Mame
• emulation
• arcade
• roms

[vaqueromuerto]

@ gargos Yes thats a Guinness bottle opener to have a couple brews while playing retro games.

[er1ck194]

hey bro how much did you spent in all this... i wanna make my own cabinet. Please reply... thanks

[vaqueromuerto]

@er1ck194 I would say about about 500 bones..But you can always hide this fact from the wife if you just buy a part at a time per paycheck..hehehe..If I were you, do what I did which is PLAN, PLAN, and PLAN.. Again do your homework..Do this and you can't go wrong..This took me about 5 months to build because I work up to 12 hours a day..If you get stuck on how to do something..STOP!!..Take a breather, search around the web for info, and think about it. My design is simplistic but effective..

[TheNews1990]

how did you make the speakers light up

[vaqueromuerto]

@TheNews1990 I bought those speakers with the led's already built in at Wal-Mart..Secret to power them just take an old sound system from an old computer and run the speaker cables to your new "Car Speakers"..They are the same ohms..And then to power the Led's I went to a 2nd hand store that sold wall warts @ 12 volts and ran the circuit in paralell..Electronics 101..

[lobsternoob]

Did anyone actually hate on you for the look of this machine? cause if so they're nuts... This looks way better than a lot of the machines at my local arcade. I'm sure it has a lot more functionality too, I'd have to say looks pretty damn sweet to me!

[vaqueromuerto]

You'd be surprised!!..If you scroll down you can see that there are negative people out there..But, I consider the source..When they build a MAME machine thats better than mine thats when their opinion counts to me..VM-out!

[gargos15]

is that a bottle opener to the side of the coin slots? that's hilariously awesome

[mebill4]

song name?

[genmidi1975]

Either I'm really stupid or you're a genious. Either way this is the best MAME cabinet I have ever seen. Can't hate on this. You can only wish you had one.

[TheNews1990]

@vaqueromuerto I just found out they might mess up my light gun so I prob wont get them

[amiga2000]

I don't think it's the camera.  Just use a tripod with a timer. You'll see huge differences with the same camera. BTW, check out my cabinet and see what you think. search for "64bit arcade cabinet"