New cabinet / kit

[MaNiX]

Hey guys,

Fairly new here so my apologies if this is a frowned upon question. I am looking to build a mame cabinet with my daughter as a little project for fun. To save time I was hoping to buy a flat pack/ready cut one instead of butchering a classic cabinet. Does anyone have experience in this area and have any recommendations? I have found a few just doing a google search but I’m not sure about quality and so on.

I am also purchasing a couple of classic cabinets from a forum member here to start my collection proper, this is very much a fun side project

Thanks in advice guys.

 

[Venom]

Hello and welcome.

Although there is some snobbery about mame vs orginal I have both and they can sit side by side

Depends on your budget , but you could buy say an arcade 1 up and spend the time and money replacing the buttons and building your own PC or raspberry pi solution for it.

Whenever I look at flat packs the pespsex and mounting of monitor and glue and triim just puts me right of it !

If you use a Dell SFF or something like that the only pain is a lot of them only accept a 1 slot card. I used to have a 1030 in mine but just replaced it and that is sitting in a drawer doing sod all. if you decide on cabinet and in future need a build just give me a shout. I personally would go for coinops collections. Enjoy the googling !

 

[Venom]

Loads of alternatives but I dud this in one cabinet

And I also have a sff behind my Tv

Windows 10 with Coinops Easy Build

For those who want to have a play about with Coinops in an arcade Cabinet and want an easy build, thought would share this. There are a lot better ways I am sure of doing this but this is a lazy don't need a brain build, as will include all parts ! The Lazy PC Buy a PC already with the...

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[Ste72]

Groovymame with correct resolutions on 15khz monitor is awesome 👌

 

[MaNiX]

Hello and welcome.

Although there is some snobbery about mame vs orginal I have both and they can sit side by side

Depends on your budget , but you could buy say an arcade 1 up and spend the time and money replacing the buttons and building your own PC or raspberry pi solution for it.

Whenever I look at flat packs the pespsex and mounting of monitor and glue and triim just puts me right of it !

If you use a Dell SFF or something like that the only pain is a lot of them only accept a 1 slot card. I used to have a 1030 in mine but just replaced it and that is sitting in a drawer doing sod all. if you decide on cabinet and in future need a build just give me a shout. I personally would go for coinops collections. Enjoy the googling !

Thanks for your feedback pal that’s great. I know that some of the model 2 and model 3 emulators use. a GPU for upscaling and stuff; but it’s my understanding that mane relies upon just CPU and memory, is that right? If you have a spare 1030 I could for certain use it with an SFF pc. I’m also looking at the coin ops stuff you shared, that will save a whole pile of work thanks mate!

 

[Venom]

Once school holidays settle down will give you a shout and can literally send you my setup should be a copy and paste and you can send the drive back. My 1030 was this one

Gigabyte GeForce GT 1030 Silent Low Profile 2G, Black with the ddr5.​

Its had very little use was only really replaces as woud not run mario kart with Teknparrot that well.

 

[Akira99]

Welcome to the community

 

[MaNiX]

Once school holidays settle down will give you a shout and can literally send you my setup should be a copy and paste and you can send the drive back. My 1030 was this one

Gigabyte GeForce GT 1030 Silent Low Profile 2G, Black with the ddr5.​

Its had very little use was only really replaces as woud not run mario kart with Teknparrot that well.

Mate that would be wonderful thanks so much yes that card isn’t the most powerful but it’s great for lots of the older stuff I think, and also small form factor. I would probably look at a dedicated setup for telnoparrot anyway with a more powerful card. I could definitely make use of that pal

 

[MaNiX]

Welcome to the community

Thanks mate it’s great to be here, everyone has been SO helpful too!

 

[penrhos]

I picked up a dead Arcade-1up Streetfighter cab for £75. Swapped the screen for a Dell lcd i had lying around. Fitted a cheap jamma loom and psu into it and its currently running one of those Pandora pcbs (i also had lying around).

If i get time and can be bothered I might try a jamma-jvs adapter and put a spare taito-x2 or Naomi inside it.

Grandkids love it as its small and easy to use.