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shinobivsme

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Hi all,
I'm a noob to all this so please don't set me on fire and dispose of my body in a landfill!

basically we are thinking of building a MAME cab for our office so im just looking for advice, here's what I'm looking at bit wise at the moment:

Empty Max force 2 Cabinet

25/26" Wells Gardner screen (same as what was in the cab before it was stripped)

2x Aimtrack guns

controller - http://www.arcadeworlduk.com/products/Arcade-Joysticks-Buttons-And-Wiring-Kit-No-2.html

maybe a coin sorter not sure whats fitted to the cab

maybe flight stick

a p4 or core 2 desktop

can you think of anything obvios i will also need?

then there's decoration like lights etc but ill look at that later after the guts are done.

thanks guys
 
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thats a gun cab mate and it is a Maximum Force

I have an Area 51 cab which is more or less the same bar different gameboard and artwork

Might not be the best choice if you want to add joysticks etc as the control panel is sloped and the speaker is slap bang in the middle of it !

If you want to get it up and running then you'll need a gameboard (PCB) with it

The cab you're looking at originally had a PCB and hard drive fitted (same as Area 51)

They look like Happ Arcade Guns too, they'll not work with a PC, you could use an Aim Trak with a PC but personally I could never get them to work right so I bought a proper gun cab !

I've an Area 51 cab up in the valuations section atm, if it's a gun cab you're after then it might be of interest to you !
 
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Gun wise the aimtrak are supposed to be the best, however you need to stand further back than the average arcade gun I think.

The slope on these cabs isn't as bad as you would think for joysticks/buttons, the speaker would get moved when you make a new panel for the controls and plus you would be sticking some amped PC speakers in there anyway.

As for the PC a P4 (3ghz) is good enuf for 90 odd percent of games, just the 3D stuff
that normally trips it over, go with XP and a decent frontend (Mala is
well liked) and you can shell it nicely too. You are going to need one of three things though, a videocard that supports soft15k, an ArcadeVGA or the new video conversion board from Jeff http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Video-Converter-PCB-VGA-to-CGA-CVBS-S-Video-TV-/170418508880?pt=UK_Video_Games_Coin_Operated_MJ&hash=item27adbc1450 to connect to the arcade monitor.
 
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Yea I'm in Leeds he's out of pointblank but has a few cabs in so going to look. The reason I thought of that cab is mainly because it's slightly larger and cheaper than a more standard cab. Do you think it would be a huge pain to replace the control board piece with a flat piece
 
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shinobivsme said:
Yea I'm in Leeds he's out of pointblank but has a few cabs in so going to look. The reason I thought of that cab is mainly because it's slightly larger and cheaper than a more standard cab. Do you think it would be a huge pain to replace the control board piece with a flat piece
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A piece of MDF will do the job, you will need to remove a few screws inside though then prize it off as they used glue too (I took an area 51 cab apart myself
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Right I've nipped out to see Mo and the cabs:

Maximum force 1 (one on his site)

https://www.dropbox.com/sh/b3uk2xcxy5s4nz5/6256wqxNx-/IMG_20130926_125404.jpg

https://www.dropbox.com/sh/b3uk2xcxy5s4nz5/Q3brEDhTXZ/IMG_20130926_125409.jpg

https://www.dropbox.com/sh/b3uk2xcxy5s4nz5/nK20ajYdvp/IMG_20130926_125417.jpg

https://www.dropbox.com/sh/b3uk2xcxy5s4nz5/8kvzEni3jT/IMG_20130926_125522.jpg

https://www.dropbox.com/sh/b3uk2xcxy5s4nz5/7zMw75VnYp/IMG_20130926_125528.jpg

Maximum Force/Area 51

https://www.dropbox.com/sh/b3uk2xcxy5s4nz5/N5X_amxhj0/IMG_20130926_125344.jpg

https://www.dropbox.com/sh/b3uk2xcxy5s4nz5/gMHXKO-dld/IMG_20130926_125539.jpg

https://www.dropbox.com/sh/b3uk2xcxy5s4nz5/b9RK0JE9cD/IMG_20130926_125547.jpg

I'm tempted with the 2nd one as its got a flatter Control panel!

thoughts?
 
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