Tredog Posted January 20, 2015 Share Posted January 20, 2015 After roaming the forums for quite some time, I decided to upload my build and maybe help anyone having similar issues I had. I don't have much room in my home and did not want my cab in the garage, so I wanted to do a slim cabinet. I searched everywhere for plans but ended up making my own using Inventor. Here is my parts list that I can remember: LOWES/Do It Best 2 X Sheets MDF (4x8x3/4) ... $84.00 Aluminum L-Bracket (Hold Marquee) ... $7.50 Plexi-Glass (Bought from scrap available) ... $6.50 Glass Panel (Sized at Lowes) ... $11.00 2 X Waxman 2-in Rubber Swivel Caster ... $7.94 2 X WXMN 2-IN GRAY SWL CASTER W BRAKE ... $8.94 White Primer ...? Black Latex Paint (This paint sucks!) ...? EBAY Xgaming inc. - Arcade Coin Door w/Mechs ... $29.99 Xgaming inc. - USB/PS2 Trackball w/buttons ... $59.98 4partyfun - PCB Feet ... $8.95 4partyfun - 40Ft 3/4" Light Blue T-Molding ...$18.00 4partyfun - 2 Player USB Mame Arcade Kit ... $50.00 4partyfun - 2 X Chrome LED Buttons ... $3.60 cat023 - 5 3/4" Speaker Grille ... $7.59 premierearcade - 2 X Arcade Black Carriage Bolts ... $5.58 angelcitytrading - 1ft LED Knight Rider Blue Neon Light ... $7.17 mobilelife_inc - 2 X 1ft Acrylic Tube White LED Sticks ... $21.90 mynewfan - 2 X 12V 1A Cooling Fan Speed Control ... $11.98 Fusion USB Rotary Volume Control for Windows ... $34.99 Recycled Parts / Computer Components Acer 22" Monitor (needed a capacitor) ... $8.00 2010 MSI Motherboard, Intel G620, 4GB DDR3 ... $0.00 XFX ATI 6670 ... $39.99 Dell 2.1 Speaker System ... $0.00 OCZ 120GB SSD (Old main system drive) ... $0.00 Seagate 1TB HDD (Old main system data drive) ... $0.00 Coolermaster 500W PSU (Old Main System Power Supply) ... $0.00 Coin Bucket (Wife got from work [Pizza Shop]) ... $0.00 2 x Coolermaster 120mm Fans ... $18.99 USB / Headphone Jack from Case ... $0.00 Graphics Game on Grafix - Lightning Marquee (Default Mame) .. $26.99 Game on Grafix - Grid Kickplate (Bargain Bin) .. $16.16 TOTAL BEFORE SHIPPING ... $495.74 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tredog Posted January 20, 2015 Author Share Posted January 20, 2015 Here are the build images: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tredog Posted January 21, 2015 Author Share Posted January 21, 2015 Time to complete: 5 Weekends build + 5 Weekends programming Games: Originally (10200+) but after adult games and Systems I just did not want to deal with only 3200 Remain Still have to remove gun games or buy light guns... The width is 29.5" (28" without sides) Monitor wakes up when PC Starts All LED Lights powered by Computer Power Supply (Some 12v some 5v) Power Switch red led arcade button on control panel Things I would Change: Knight Rider Light does an annoying strobe, would not use it again. Access door on the rear (I may still make this). Black Latex Paint SUCKS... Took almost 5 weeks to completely dry. If I use it again, I will do very thin layers and paint only in the warmer months. OS: Windows 7 Home X64 (originally was XP, but XBMC was not supported) Hyperspin Frontend running the following Systems: Mame AAE Atari Jaquar Future Pinball 3DO DW Jukebox TurboGrafx 16 TurboGrafx CD Nintendo Super Nintendo Sega Gen. Sega CD Sega Saturn NeoGeo CD XBMC Zinc PC Games: Chicken Little Feeding Frenzy 2 Fix It Felix GH3 (One reason for the graphics card and USB's in Front) GH Aerosmith GH World Tour kung Fu Panda Outrun 2006 Peggle Peggle Nights Zuma Will post final pics this weekend when I open the cabinet up for a friend that would like to how i built the internals. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tredog Posted January 21, 2015 Author Share Posted January 21, 2015 Video before Control Panel was placed. Shows some of the internals near the end of vid. Origniall AMD Motherboard and XP still in these early videos. Much nicer now with Intel CPU and SSD. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HazzardActual Posted January 21, 2015 Share Posted January 21, 2015 sweet little cab dude, thanks for posting the plans too, I might just have ditch my bartop plans and make one of these. how did you set the buttons up for the trackball? I want to do this in a future build but I dont really know how you wire the mouse clicks. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tredog Posted January 21, 2015 Author Share Posted January 21, 2015 The trackball from Xarcade has up to four mouse buttons and 2 sets of wires per button (you can run 2 left, 2 right, etc) that are already wired to the trackball. It even comes with 4 black arcade buttons. I ran mouse buttons 1 and 2 to the top of the arcade between the Player 1 and 2 start buttons. Most games will use either player 1 Fire button (RED) or the left mouse click to operate. Xpadder is wonderful for mapping every emulator/game the way you want them. I also have the Free play buttons mounted under the control panel (Above the coin door) hidden from view, along with the USB/Headphone ports. Will post better pics/videos this weekend. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Silverback Posted January 21, 2015 Share Posted January 21, 2015 Great woodworking skills! Mighty fine cabinet you have there! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tredog Posted January 21, 2015 Author Share Posted January 21, 2015 Thanks, but I am just a novice. Last time I did any woodworking was in high school, and I am now 35, lol. Just took my time and lots of breaks to plot my next move. Using the router for the first time was the scariest. Did not want to ruin my perfectly cut/sanded sides and have to start over. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
the0remora Posted January 23, 2015 Share Posted January 23, 2015 How did you wire up the player 2 coin input? Did you just do it to the hidden free to play button? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tredog Posted January 23, 2015 Author Share Posted January 23, 2015 Yes, If you look at the 8th Build pic, you can see the two hidden button holes above the coin door. P1 coin is hooked to both button and the actual coin door, P2 coin is button only. Most games only require P1 coin for multiplayer anyway. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tredog Posted January 31, 2015 Author Share Posted January 31, 2015 Here is the tour of the mess on the inside of my cabinet (sorry for the poor lighting). Forgot to mention the glowing knob on the back is the volume control. Kids are loud too, sorry! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tredog Posted March 18, 2015 Author Share Posted March 18, 2015 Thinking about pulling out the control panel, Splitting it in two sections, adding a hinge to the front and latches to the rear, filling in the screw holes and adding graphics to it. Also, replacing the strobe-like blue led under the cab with a less distracting one. The paint only control panel seems to get dirty too easily, but does clean well. I want it hinged, but don't want the shinny hinge showing under my blue t-molding. Is there a way to maybe recess the piano hinge into the control panel itself? or do most people just let them show and PAINT them black? Anyone know of good pictures of the hinged area of any control panels to help me out? Thanks! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
josefino Posted January 20, 2016 Share Posted January 20, 2016 Wow, very nice. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
falco78 Posted September 9, 2018 Share Posted September 9, 2018 Do you remember the overall width of the cabinet? control panel? kick plate? marque? I am wanting to modify the width to accommodate a 32" LCD thanks Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tredog Posted October 18, 2018 Author Share Posted October 18, 2018 the board width was 28in, the cabinet width was 29.5in (28in + 3/4in + 3/4in for the sides). Hope that helps. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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