Mame Cabinet
04 December 2005, 05:44 PM
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Mame Cabinet
Quite fancy doing a lads and dads project, I have three boys aged 6 8 and 10, during the winter months I thought there may be a project we could do, you know teach them a few skills and hopefully not cost a load of money,
So I was mooching the net and saw some home brew arcade cabinets, it just so happens in my garage I have several old pc's and other bits and a 21 inch tv doing nothing, so I thought I could build a scaled down arcade cabinet for the kids.
Anyone done this ?
Just in the process of getting the hardware together, need a lead to go from the connector on the video card to a scart socket, s-video I beleive, the one lead I dont have, not sure whether the telly will understand the signal though, any idea what I need in this area, basically I am just using the TV out of the card, its an Nvidia MX something, the cheapo one but perfectly adequate for MAME.
So I was mooching the net and saw some home brew arcade cabinets, it just so happens in my garage I have several old pc's and other bits and a 21 inch tv doing nothing, so I thought I could build a scaled down arcade cabinet for the kids.
Anyone done this ?
Just in the process of getting the hardware together, need a lead to go from the connector on the video card to a scart socket, s-video I beleive, the one lead I dont have, not sure whether the telly will understand the signal though, any idea what I need in this area, basically I am just using the TV out of the card, its an Nvidia MX something, the cheapo one but perfectly adequate for MAME.
04 December 2005, 05:49 PM
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05 December 2005, 12:21 PM
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You could speak to Boyo on this forum, he's had a lot of experience with this type of thing.
http://www.retrofusion.co.uk/forum/index.php
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05 December 2005, 04:30 PM
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i bought a 2 player x-arcade controller when they first came out for a mame cabinet and never got around to building the thing 
had the old pc ready to go, needed a cabinet and a monitor and got bored
had the old pc ready to go, needed a cabinet and a monitor and got bored
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