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kanageddaamen on 01 May 2013

She loves it actually. We have an ongoing competition for the Galaga high score (I just beat her score today)



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kanageddaamen on 01 May 2013
BloodyRain said:

damn that looks awesome! How long did it take you to build?


about 2 and a half weeks



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superchunk on 01 May 2013

great job, should be able to do a pc and emulate all kinds of stuff going forward.



darkknightkryta on 01 May 2013

I've always wanted to build one. Did you get plans off the net for the peices?



kanageddaamen on 01 May 2013

@Superchunk, yeah its all set up. We are having a "launch party" Friday. Tournaments, etc

@darkknightkryta: I did. This project is about 7 years in the making and the site from which I got the plans is now down, but fortunately I had the foresight to save all of the relevant pages in mhtml in case such a thing happened

I still have some mods I need to make. I made it so the control panel is removable, so I want to build a driving set of controls, and I would like to add 2 light guns as well. But those things can wait.



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darkknightkryta on 01 May 2013
kanageddaamen said:
@Superchunk, yeah its all set up. We are having a "launch party" Friday. Tournaments, etc

@darkknightkryta: I did. This project is about 7 years in the making and the site from which I got the plans is now down, but fortunately I had the foresight to save all of the relevant pages in mhtml in case such a thing happened

I still have some mods I need to make. I made it so the control panel is removable, so I want to build a driving set of controls, and I would like to add 2 light guns as well. But those things can wait.

So where would you go to get the plans printed?



echoesfromthepast on 01 May 2013

Looks awesome!! Good job!



     
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Bladeforce on 01 May 2013

Throw mame in it, followed by zsnes or snes9x then a few othe emulators and you got the best game cabinet ever. Already done it myself ;) And made over 2000 customs game icons for my menu :D



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kanageddaamen on 01 May 2013
darkknightkryta said:
kanageddaamen said:
@Superchunk, yeah its all set up. We are having a "launch party" Friday. Tournaments, etc

@darkknightkryta: I did. This project is about 7 years in the making and the site from which I got the plans is now down, but fortunately I had the foresight to save all of the relevant pages in mhtml in case such a thing happened

I still have some mods I need to make. I made it so the control panel is removable, so I want to build a driving set of controls, and I would like to add 2 light guns as well. But those things can wait.

So where would you go to get the plans printed?

This site has the same plans that I used, except I used a modification that cut the bottom in for leg room and I had to change the control panel cuts to work the way I wanted

http://mame.velociworks.com/



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thranx on 01 May 2013

looking bad ass. I like arcade games like that, hope to have some of my own when i move out