First MAME project - Budget upright Cabinet

[kjdifpp0]

Hello everyone!

I'm new to this forum, new to MAME, but well known to emulators.

Building a MAME cabinet was something I randomly searched for on eBay, and suddenly I found out that it actually was a market for this, and joysticks and buttons could be found.

I saw several projects which I searched up on google, but I was shocked by the amount of money people were putting in. Everything from $1.000 to $5.000! I was a bit shocked - HOW is it possible to use that much money on a homebuilt arcade-machine?

After googling around, reading several threads at different forums, I saw that a clever mind could make a cabinet with a CP for a couple of hundred bucks, and started thinking more on this project.

Me and a friend of mine started joking about it - "Maybe we should just build one now, what do you say?" After thinking a couple of hours and looking for parts on eBay, we suddenly found ourselves in the local stores buying materials.

I must say, we both own big thanks to Koenigs which inspired us to our project. Our MAME cabinet is based on the "Project MAME" upright cabinet, with few modifications.

I will continue updating this thread further. And I will try to keep the chat to a minimum, and as much visual candy as possible.

I will still write our ideas around the project - WHY we chose the particular parts and solutions etc.

Keep in mind, you will not see the most awesome cabinet in the world in this thread. This is a project we started just to have something to do in the weekends. It's also a proof that cabinets doesn't have to be costly to be good. And hopefully, some of our ideas here will inspire others to start their own project(s).


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