dark Posted January 23, 2011 Share Posted January 23, 2011 I built this cabinet out of 3/4'' birch plywood and painted each piece of wood with a minimum of 3 coats oil primer 3 coats black oil low lustre paint. The "defender Arcade" marquee I bought off the internet but the other graphics I designed myself based off of pac-man and galaga game play. (May do side art later). I used a custom cut piece of tempered glass for my overlay which has pacman bezel/border decal applied on the inside of the glass. A cool feature I included with my cabinet is the entire coin door front panel is attached to the cabinet with industry quality velcro making access to the inside of the cabinet very easy. I installed a 6 port USB hub on the front of my pc so if i need to adjust any USB's I can usually do it just from going through the coin door. Specs 27'' WG Arcade monitor w/ bezel 2.8ghz quad core pc X-Arcade 2player joystick with trackball 2x wired playstation style gamepads (for 4 player games etc) 1x wireless 6 button gamepad (to simulate n64 controls) 2x ems top gun light guns. Chrome T-moulding (which I've only seen at starburstcoinmachines.com, local to me) Black T-moulding on Galaga drawer cover. I have a fairly robust collection of system wheels that continues to grow and I owe the quality of my front-end experience to the amazing hyperspin community. No other front end compares. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- <EDIT> Update: My new "warlords" custom cocktail table: http://www.hyperspin-fe.com/forum/showthread.php?t=14339 Update: New side art done on upright cabinet: http://www.hyperspin-fe.com/forum/showthread.php?t=14471 next project: Custom CP for upright and likely give x-arcade to my friend. I considered just putting new artwork on my x-arcade cp, but theres a few things I'd like to change about it and I'd be more satisfied over all if I made it from scratch. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dazz Posted January 23, 2011 Share Posted January 23, 2011 Looks good, but 1 question.... Why would you build a nice looking cabinet, but nasty it up by using an X-Arcade? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SubZero Posted January 23, 2011 Share Posted January 23, 2011 Looks good, but 1 question.... Why would you build a nice looking cabinet, but nasty it up by using an X-Arcade? I go with Dazz. why not Ipac? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dark Posted January 24, 2011 Author Share Posted January 24, 2011 This being the first cab I built buying the Joystick first is what commited me to building it in the first place....and to be honest I was intimidated by wiring my own joystick unit so early in the game...I figured I could always replace it later on once I gathered more gusto. I knew you guys were guna rip on me for that lol...but hey at least I changed the T-moulding on it Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
zerebro Posted January 25, 2011 Share Posted January 25, 2011 Looks good, I would have liked to see a custom control panel. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Thepriest Posted February 6, 2011 Share Posted February 6, 2011 looks nice! I also use the X-arcade stick because it's also my first cabinet i have build. I will be trying too do the wiring later on if i have some more knowledge about it But not for now Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cyrusnagisa Posted February 7, 2011 Share Posted February 7, 2011 the wiring is not really that bad, at first I was telling myself "crap what did you talk yourself into this time" but after I started, it just flowed on through, it took 2 days of wiring (yay for days off work) but I got it done. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Secret80'sMan Posted February 7, 2011 Share Posted February 7, 2011 You could always rip the stuff out of the X Arcade and put it on a piece of wood so it looks more custom. Would look a heck of a lot better and not cost you an arm and a leg to upgrade. You can then upgrade things over time. I dig the rest of it though, good luck! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vater Posted February 7, 2011 Share Posted February 7, 2011 ^For now, that's what I plan to do when I build my cab...although I might replace the joysticks with Happs and will probably be adding more controls. Nice looking cabinet, otherwise, dark. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ptaz Posted February 8, 2011 Share Posted February 8, 2011 Great job, on this cabinet I like it a lot don't worry about the X-Arcade people don't like them, because their pre-bulit. I also used an X-arcade tankstick and I am very happy with it. Easy to use and simply the only way to go for your first build. Besides building your own controls takes a lot of time and effort and can cost you some dough, when all you want to do is play..... you can also get some help on making a custom CPO to slap over top of the X-arcade to make it look like a custom build that's what I am doing with the help of Donnei1979. Cheers! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Firebat138 Posted February 8, 2011 Share Posted February 8, 2011 Great start my friend and welcome to the club. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kevin_lane Posted February 8, 2011 Share Posted February 8, 2011 Nice Cab! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
shaolin Posted February 12, 2014 Share Posted February 12, 2014 This being the first cab I built buying the Joystick first is what commited me to building it in the first place....and to be honest I was intimidated by wiring my own joystick unit so early in the game...I figured I could always replace it later on once I gathered more gusto.I knew you guys were guna rip on me for that lol...but hey at least I changed the T-moulding on it I felt the same way with my 1st build, but that I gut the x-arcade and placed the internals in a custom panel i made ... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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