Every kid dreams of having an arcade game at their house. When those kids grow up, they have a couple of options for getting that at-home arcade experience. They can either buy a one-game commercial game or build a multi-game MAME cabinet. Both options have the same disadvantage: they take up a bunch of space!
Arcade game-aholic, [lokesen], wanted to scratch his itch but do it with something a little less ‘big’ than a standard arcade cabinet. He came up with the only logical solution; a MAME computer stuffed inside an arcade controller.
A lot of thought went into the controller case, which is made from laser cut acrylic. It had to be large enough to allow a proper arcade-emulating spacing of the joystick and buttons as well as have room for a mini-ATX motherboard and 64gb SSD drive. The case also has provisions for a cooling fan and some exhaust vents. To finish off the case, wood grain veneer was applied to the sides.
[lokesen] chose this motherboard for a reason, it has several options of on-board video output; VGA, DVI and HDMI. Connecting this controller to any TV, monitor, or projector is a piece of cake.
Nice!
Woah! Great idea and nicely done!
This is from over 4 years ago :P
That looks like a mini ITX not an ATX
Yeah, last updates from are 2013.
That is a respectable MAME microcabinet.
This is a work of art!
Yeah! This is awesome! Every kid over 35 is gonna freak man! This is fully heavy dude.
I love this but what about the multiplayer experience?
just add another usb controller setup without the computer.
This looks really great, but wouldn’t a Raspberry Pi or similar be sufficient for most MAME games? That way, it could be smaller and without a fan …