Arcade Cabinet

by heath heathen

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Intro: Arcade Cabinet

Built custom aluminum frame welding base and then making cold fitted monitor rack and joystick control surfaces.

STEP 1: Computer

After striping the shell off a old Mac G4 tower it can be bolted to the frame. Same withte monitor however make sure not to touch the coil as it holds a chrage. In this photo you can see the control surface bolted to the frame as well as the monitor.

STEP 2: Wiring

Wire in Jpac controller http://www.ultimarc.com/jpac.html, LEDs, http://www.buy-leds-online.com, speakers craigslist.org, and control surfaces http://www.happ.com/

In this photo you can see the JPAC controller on the inter right side of the case, this unit has leads to all the control surfaces (Joysticks, button) once wired it is USB to the Computer then install the software to map the controls to the MacMame, http://www.macmame.org/ Rom Emulator

Note the Plexiglass Shell: This is 1/4 frosted Plexi that I bent by putting a piece of steel over and under the sheet then using two heat guns I slowly heated the plexi until it started to give then pushed down to get a good 45 degree angle.

STEP 3: Downloading Software

In this photo you can see the unit all put together. The lap top is there just to tranfer sounds, and games.

STEP 4: Finished Play Game

Ready to go! Game on.

9 Comments

Phyrosis 13 years ago

very nice work, lacking details but definatly gave me some inspiration and some ideas on how to tackle my "unbending F&%$ING PLEXIGLASS!"

gave me a great idea for how to do my bars touch games,

Patrik 16 years ago

You may want to show that last picture first, so people can see what you are building - it'll also be the picture that shows up on the front page, in searches, etc.

FrenchCrawler 16 years ago

Nice. But would probably better filed in the "Slideshow" category since you are lacking details.

GorillazMiko 16 years ago

Actually pretty cool, have to admit. Not that much information, so agreeing with FrenchCrawler, it would be better as a Slideshow.

CowGuy 16 years ago

I made a stand up arcade machine. This is a really fun hobby. Check out www.byoac.com for some more info and check out the forum.

LinuxH4x0r 16 years ago

Cool, but its lacking info. Looks awesome!

djbarista 16 years ago

get a shave you hippie!

djbarista 16 years ago

Details, please this is more of a "look what I can do" like try sharing of how you attached the comp to the Frame.