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| Dec 30 2002 - Since July I have added a Cambridge Soundworks 8" self powered sub to the bottom of the cabinet. I used a 3" hole saw to cut a round hole to vent the sub. The left joystick kept falling out because the screws werent holding well in the particle board, and were stripping. I finally got fed up with that so I drilled 4 holes around each joystick, completely through the lexan and the particle board, and used 4 carriage bolts to bolt each joystick in. It's not as clean a look as it was, as you can now see the countersunk bolt heads from the top, but they sure won't be falling out again! If I were to do the project over again, I would use some good quality plywood for the control panel instead of particle board. |
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| July 30 2002 - Updated the main page with a finished picture of the cabinet. The game now has cupholders on both sides and it is fully wired up so all you need to do is push any button and the entire cabinet turns itself on. The windows 98 bootup screen has been replaced with an Xmen vs Street Fighter graphic. |
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| July 19 2002 - updated Electronics and Control Panel pages with more new images. Got the new control panel finished and mounted last night. All that is really left is to wire up the coin door lights, wire a new system on/off switch, secure the wiring inside and attach the cupholders. |
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| July 12 2002 - updated Electronics and Control Panel pages with new images. I will have new stuff posted next week detailing all the work I get done this weekend. |
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| Hello, this website will detail the creation of my MAME arcade cabinet. What is MAME you ask? MAME stands for Multi Arcade Machine Emulator. It is a program that will fool your PC into thinking it is an original arcade game. Yes, you can play all your old arcade favorites and even some new games too. Mame is available for free, and it, along with some ROM files copied from the original arcade boards allows you to play over 3000 arcade games all on one machine. |
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| I first discovered MAME in 1997, at that time it 'only' emulated about one hundred games, mostly old arcade classics like Donkey Kong and Galaga.
I played around with it for a while then, but controlling these arcade games with your keyboard just doesn't cut it. My friend Jim and I went to some nearby Arcade auctions in 1997 and 1998 and I picked up a vertical JAMMA cabinet. I was able to pick up a few boards for it and I had 4 different games I could play on it. Switching boards was a hassle, and 4 games just wasn't enough. Moving forward to the present, I rediscovered MAME and found that they now accurately emulate thousands of games! The time was right to create a cabinet to house a MAME computer.
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| These are the latest pictures. The machine is structurally finished, however with projects like these there is always something else that can be done. Click the links on the left nav to follow along and see what has been completed so far. |
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| Eventually I would like to buy a decent subwoofer and integrate it into the cabinet. |
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