Mini MAME cabinet

posted Sep 4th 2009 10:00am by Mike Szczys
filed under: home entertainment hacks

mini_mame_arcade

[luis] added to the collection of MAME projects we’ve covered with his mini MAME cabinet build. This is his 5th mini cabinet and features a 5″ PlayStation LCD screen, a joystick, four control buttons, player 1 and 2 start buttons, speakers, and a lighted marquee. The controls are interfaced through an I-PAC and the system running the whole thing is a mini-ITX board with an Atom processor and two gigs of RAM. The build log is in Spanish and takes us all the way from a cardboard prototype to the finished particle board cabinet full of high quality artwork.

Gameplay starts about 5:30 into the video.

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tagged: arcade, i-pac, mame, mini cabinet

10 Responses to Mini MAME cabinet

B says:

September 4, 2009 at 10:23 am

Where can i get one? Hoe much $$???

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strider_mt2k says:

September 4, 2009 at 10:50 am

Off topic but can anyone recommend a BT wireless game pad I can use with my netbook for playing emus?

It’s that or hack a wireless dongle internally.

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pod says:

September 4, 2009 at 11:32 am

cool music!

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Reinier says:

September 4, 2009 at 1:33 pm

@ strider

I normally just read and don’t comment but since your thoughts are always insightfull I feel I should respond to your request.

Look at using a PS3 controller. They are bluetooth and, imho, quite comfortable. Not the cheapest though, but that’s a personal call.

The drivers are an open source project I think, or at least free. For windows Hackaday featured it here: http://hackaday.com/2009/01/11/windows-drivers-for-ps3-controllers/

Good luck with it :)

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CoR says:

September 5, 2009 at 1:18 pm

Es todo un placer ver articulos tambien en castellano!!!
Seguro que no soy el unico seguidor hispanohablante, de todos modos llevo años siguiendo la web en Ingles, Felicidades por el 5 Aniversario.
Una pena que la gente de por aqui no se anime a publicar mas cosas.
Saludos y a seguir muchos años mas.

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sqwatdog says:

September 6, 2009 at 9:58 am

Amazing project. Anyone know what software he uses for his main interface? For lack of a better term, it’s beautiful. I’m building a mame cabinet and it’s exactly what I’m looking for.

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sam seide says:

September 10, 2009 at 10:27 am

from the translated website it says the front end is “maximus arcade”. Don’t know if it’s translated right but that’s what it says.

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Tommi says:

April 2, 2010 at 1:59 am

So is this like an arcade cabinet for babies? :) why not just make the thing real size

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Garth Bock says:

December 9, 2010 at 2:53 pm

Does anyone have templates for the cabinet or a blueprint ? Please help I would like to make this for a christmas present.