Little backstory. One of my friends gave me one of these since he happened to have three of them. Little note to anyone who has never had one, they are heavy as hell. I decided to put a J-PAC board in there so that I can hook up a MAME PC with a modded video card so that it be displayed on the 320 x 240 CRT. The setup was pretty ghetto. I had a tower sitting on the right side and PC speakers bolted to the outside. Well one day lighting struck and fried the PC and CRT. As mentioned before, that damn thing was too heavy to haul anywhere and throw away so I decided to fix it. Well when I took the CRT out, I noticed that there was a LOT of room where it used to sit. Then I pondered to myself, "Hey, I can fit a PC and LCD with all this room!" So I researched some LCD's that fit the dimensions that were now offered to me and now I bring to you CF, my ghetto HD Mame cabinet! First thing's first, I need to spec out a PC that would be fast enough for SF4AE. I opted for an Intel i3-3225, 4GB of RAM, ASRock Mini ATX B75M-DGS (comes with SATA 6.0Gbps for the SSD), 500W Antec, Transcend 128GB SSD, Geforce GTX 460SE and Windows 7 Pro x64. Here it is mounted on a piece of wood And here it is mounted inside! Here is a picture of the power button and speaker control along with the USB ports rigged to the side of the cabinet. (another USB has been added since then) I added two fans. One on the right next to the video card And one on the back I gutted the power supply of the JAMMA cabinet and it was responsible for the light of the marquee. So I had to buy a new light shown here What's cool about this light was that it was mounted on that white of wood that came off fairly easy. When I took it off, I noticed there was only ONE speaker behind there. So I ripped it off and zip tied some Logitech speakers shown here Here is the subwoofer bolted down into the cabinet Now with that done, I wanted to get a new marquee so I found a pic on the internet and had one custom made I also gutted the mechanics behind the coin slot, ghetto zip tied some buttons on there and configured MAME to "insert coin" when pressed Now with everything set, I need to mount the LCD somehow. I went to Home Depot and bought a silver metal thingy to sit the LCD on and some shelf thingies After putting velcro on the mount and shelf thingies, I placed the LCD in and it was sturdy and stable! To hide the unsightly surroundings of the LCD, I made the cover out of thick styrofoam paper And here is the finished product!! I also put in LED buttons for bling factor. The buttons look brighter than they should be since I took the video in the dark http://www.youtube.com/embed/5tBE0dZBFqQ Other pics Handcuffs
Awesome. Seems like it would take ME years to accomplish the same. Why do you need 128Gb on an SSD? Isn't that a bit excessive on both the type of hard drive and the capacity? Why not a "ghetto'er" solution and just do a cheaper hard drive, lower capacity, etc.? Just wondering. Sounds like you'd save a bit more moolah. I'd also think about exposing the loading mechanism for later installing other games that can use the six-button arcade-type buttons. OVERALL, a good job, though! It looks like it works fine!
Pretty sweet. Was there a big advantage in using a PC rather than just sticking a PS3 or XBOX 360 in there?
The SSD was to make the unit boot up faster I had a mechanical drive before but that took too long to boot up.
Dude, that is so badass. Mad props. So do you have Mame on there with other games or is it only SF emulation?
That is just plain awesome. Love me some Street Fighter, but if I had one to do myself I'd make an NBA Showtime cabinet!
Yes Mame is on there! If you watch the youtube video, you can see the list of most played. So this sucker plays KoF, Samurai Shodown, MK and even Killer Instinct!
Mame is the big reason. Plus I would have no idea on how to rewire the sticks and buttons on this cabinet to work with 360/PS3
This is my next project for the house: 4 player Mame cabinet and system. I may have to come back to this thread for some tips and advice but your system looks great! You're lucky you got a (heavy) cabinet for free!
I would honestly purchase something like this from somebody. I dont have the time to make something like this but i WANT WANT
