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The PC in the cab is running Windows XP trimmed down using nlite. It boots straight into the mame frontend Mala. Mala is a great frontend for Mame. It works really well with the sticks. To select a rom I can go through the alphabet by going left/right and up and down the letter using up/down. Hitting 1up or 2up starts a game, hit em both and it will exit. Hit again it will shutdown the PC. The skin is a modified one available here called retroGUI. I made the skin red and added a title. I also added the video preview window in the lower right. |
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The PC running the cab is an old Fujitsu Siemens Scenic E600, a PC that has served me very well now recycled again! It seems to crash out on 3D games, I probably haven't configured Mame properly. It plays all the CPS & Neo Geo stuff no probs so I am happy. The speakers are an old set of Creative SBS 350's I had kicking around. They are shit but they make the cab boom in a way that reminds me of the real cabs. The monitor is an Acer X201, not a bad monitor does the trick. In the pic you can see the monitor clumped to the bezel. Thanks to Chaz for helping me with both! |
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The actual cab was made by a couple of mates who put together custom wardrobes. The Sketchup designs for the cab hung around on my hard drive for at least a year before I mentioned it to them. Within a few weeks after getting the files they had made the cab! Well Done lads! If I had tried to build myself I would have definately lost a limb! They built the cab exactly to the the drawings, maybe a little too close! I would have loved to have rounded some of the corners. I would have also made it a wee bit smaller in height and depth, but I am well chuffed with it. |
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All of the buttons, sticks, pre-made wiring loom and keyboard controller (I-PACve I think) came from Ultimarc. The stick was an E-Stik which was a piece of piss to fit. It fits in a standard button hole. The buttons are in a normal Streetfighter layout, I got a template for the buttons off some (now dead) polish site. As you can see I have buttons on the side. I originally wanted to run PinMame in the cab as well with the side buttons as flipper buttons, but I haven't got round to it. The box part that is fitted with the buttons is covered with a vinyl sticker that I got made special from Folkstone Printing. It cost about £25. I was initially disappointed, the print was a little red and slightly bubbled but once I got it stuck on it looked totally different. It looks great, hard waring and easy to clean! The marquee at the top and the bezel were printed on a HP DesignJet 800. I intend to put a glass/plastic cover over the bezel eventually. I just remembered! I also bought a book that was very handy and had tons of ideas, Project Arcade. My copy doesn't seem to be around now, I wonder who has it?
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