Comments on: Hackit: Modern arcade cabinets?

By: Tekken 6 PSP

Tekken 6 PSP — Fri, 19 Feb 2010 08:59:57 +0000

I have played Tekken 6 in my PSP and I really love playing it over and over, wherever I want, whenever I want.

By: Horace Plaas

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By: North Cyprus

North Cyprus — Sat, 05 Dec 2009 08:07:12 +0000

Very nice design.
But is there anyone who saw inside of this project ?
I am very curious about the interior.
And also does anyone has plans for building a cabinet like this ?

By: pergola

pergola — Tue, 06 Oct 2009 07:30:10 +0000

Hey, that's a really nice design plan you've got there. I've been looking into doing something like this for myself, but I was thinking maybe I could make a couple of small adjustments. For example, maybe using an XBOX 360 as opposed to a PS3 solely because of XBOX Live Arcade. Think about it: I could play Pac-Man and all that junk. Unless I'm missing the point, in which case I'd be glad to trade in my XBOX so that I could run this bad boy. Aesthetically, I was thinking of extending the roof of it a little to make it sort of look like a pergola. You know, just one of those homely little touches. Could possibly even put a light in there so I can make it all cinematic. Either way, you've got an awesome idea.

By: Alo

Alo — Thu, 05 Mar 2009 10:06:07 +0000

Check this CAB !!
http://www.gennagroup.com/it/node/341
:-O
Alo

By: daniel

daniel — Fri, 22 Aug 2008 22:23:25 +0000

I have a cnc machine and would be intrested in building a cabinet

Here is a link to one a fellow shopbotter built.
http://www.talkshopbot.com/forum/messages/17997/18002.html

By: danadamkof

danadamkof — Fri, 22 Aug 2008 08:20:47 +0000

You’d probably want to use a CRT anyway to make low-res games look decent, and to deal with the various resolutions used by different boards.

By: Daisjun

Daisjun — Fri, 22 Aug 2008 06:41:16 +0000

My brother and I share about 8 or so cabs between us and we absolutely love the retro look. Americans are so damn spoilt for choice in terms of cabs and hardware, things are a lot slimmer pickings down in australia. So I don't see the point of scratch building a mame a lot of the time, particularly when a lot of them end up like this: http://www.disorder.org/crapmame/

@jeremiah: Seconded. You really want to keep it simple. Honestly, how many times do you think you're gonna play that game that needs an xyz accelerometer with 5 side buttons and an axe attachment? A lot of examples in the link above have this curse and just look at them! They look horrible. 2 controllers and 6 buttons is perfectly reasonable and no-one is going to laugh at you.

And finally instead of scratch building a cab, I think it's a lot more reasonable to find an old cab that you really like the look of and simply replace the panels. Even I wouldn't go that far as I like the old look, but it's probably the easiest way to go about making a 'modern' looking cab if you aren't so creatively or constructively minded.

By: doolspin

doolspin — Fri, 22 Aug 2008 00:53:11 +0000

@20 try gameex. its what i run, its skinable, runs all sorts of emulators. and its free!

By: cberkop

cberkop — Fri, 22 Aug 2008 00:27:10 +0000

Ultimarc also sells the button and joystic controllers that connect to a PC via USB. I am in the process of bulding my own cabinet and am working out the details to allow the switching of control tops. I have the basic 2 player, and a 4 player. I am working out a 2 player with trackball and spinner. All these fit on one Stand up unit.

A future project that I have in mind is a bar gaming unit. Again PC based with single player contols connected to Wirelessly to the gaming unit (most likely a coffee table) and connect it to a bigscreen TV. Each unit would have Joystick, buttons, spinner, and trackball. http://www.happcontrols.com/ will be your friend.

By: Alexander

Alexander — Thu, 21 Aug 2008 22:31:29 +0000

Nice design. I might have to steal it for my gameroom once I get a house. :P

By: Garrett

Garrett — Thu, 21 Aug 2008 19:56:23 +0000

How about just a control panel that can be connected directly to a tv and played? Here's mine:

http://forum.arcadecontrols.com/index.php?topic=81201.0

(it has a metal top, translucent buttons, and translucent joysticks; the buttons light-up)

By: Haku

Haku — Thu, 21 Aug 2008 19:37:39 +0000

Has anyone else watched the guys at Systm build their mame cabinet? 5 videos showing how they put it together from scratch, it's a good set of 5 shows: (watch online or download episodes in various formats)

http://revision3.com/systm/mamecase
http://revision3.com/systm/mamecase2
http://revision3.com/systm/buttons
http://revision3.com/systm/software
http://revision3.com/systm/itsover

I'd love to build a mame machine but don't have the space for one :(

By: Doc

Doc — Thu, 21 Aug 2008 19:02:32 +0000

@digitalmind:

Rather than doing the keyboard hack, I HIGHLY recommend a dedicated interface board. I've been (slowly) building a MAME cabinet, and I wrote up my impressions of a couple I've used on my blog:
http://blog.docstech.net/2007/10/22/the-hydrogen-controller/
http://blog.docstech.net/2007/10/08/the-tokn-kb10kb16-controller/

The Hydrogen controller is perfect for my needs, and not too expensive as interfaces go.

By: fbm

fbm — Thu, 21 Aug 2008 18:43:47 +0000

I made an arcade machine a while back and it turned out really well. I tried to make it look like a cross between a typical arcade machine and a piece of furniture (note the stained glass marquee). I don't know if that's "modern" or not but it's definitely different. I used a PC instead of a game console to run the whole thing. I also went with a TV to keep costs down. Also the second tier of controls is easily removable so you can have different control panels for different games (racing wheels, positional guns, beer holders, etc). Here's my site showing it off:

http://sharpk60.googlepages.com/arcade