MAME Build -- Day 1

The first build day on the project which is really an unbuild day (lol). I havn't totally decided on what I want the theme to be but I think I am going to go with a Nebraska Huskers theme as I think a red cabinet is going to look really nice. So in preparation for repainting all the pieces I started by disassembling the cabinet and here are all the various pieces


The Control Panel


The Marquee box and control panel box


The Sides


Bezel and front door


So luckily it broke down pretty easy, I did discover that the monitor may in fact still work I havn't plugged it into something to test it but when I removed it there was a power button hidden by the monitor bezel and I plugged in the power cord and pushed the button just see if anything would happen and wouldn't you know the power light started blinking as a monitor does when it doesn't detect an input so that may be a bonus though I dont know if I want to use it or put something bigger in the cab and redo the bezel, but nice to know I have an easy fall back if I decide to go that route. So the next project is locking down the theme i want and then removing the decals that are plasterd on every piece of this thing, I got a tip to try heating them with a hair dryer to loosen the adheisive and I have a bottle of Goo Gone at the ready so that will be the next days project.


I found some templates of an actaul Street Fighter II button layout (Thanks BYOAC) so I printed out a couple to test out on the control panel, as you can see from the pic. the two layouts take up almost the whole width of the panel so I think I may extend the width a little bit wich shouldn't be too hard the other option would be to mount the trackball slightly higher up on the panel but I am not sure how comfy that will be for actual playing will have to do some mock ups and see




Also in looking closer at the PCB board it appears all the inputs are held on by some sort of aheiseve so when I do the vinyl i will also try to heat this up as well and see what happens, hopefully its not to tough to remove as I would like to keep the PCB intact

The MAME Cabinet Project--The Begining

So if you watched the "epic pick up" video you see I finally have a cab to turn into my MAME Machine, This is something I have been wanting to do for quite sometime now and looks like I am finally getting the chance, The first thing I did once bringing it home was open up the back panel and the control panel to see what we are dealing with

Underneath the control panel


The back panel removed

So as you can see the back panel is pretty much just the monitor and what appears to be a power strip that everything plugs into, and under the control panel is the actual board running the Golden Tee software and that has everything wired into it, Luckily it appears that the trackball will be useable with the arcade controls wich will save me about 100 bucks right off the bat. I will probably use a new piece of wood and cut it to the same size for my control panel as I dont really see a way of salvaging the piece currently there. Now I just need to decide what kind of theme I want the maching to have I am kicking around a few different ideas just need to figure out what will make the best looking machine. I went ahead and frankenstiened another monitor into the cab tonight just to see if it actually was working and it is so Now I may keep the Golden Tee card in there or maybe sell it to recoup some expenses since MAME will be able to run Golden Tee anyway. Next project is getting the garage organized so I have somewhere to work on the thing....LOL

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