Seeing as I haven't had my own "____ is in da house" thread since joining maaca some time ago, I am totally stoked to say my MAME cabinet I've been labouring on since summer is IN DA HOUSE!  

I was thinking, what would be more original than "Player 1", "Player 2"? Then it came to me when my friends were always joking about King of Kong/Chasing Ghosts and thought Billy vs. Steve...of course.  Whoever is on Billy's side may be forced to wear a USA flag tie, we're not sure yet.  

So my buddy Matt and I built it from the ground up.  He had already built one for himself and I'm a graphic designer so I did the design work after we were done.



Wanted the sides to be retro, knicked the idea for the stripes from Pole Position.



LED buttons light up whichever buttons the game you are playing needs (ie Donkey Kong gets 1 jump button lit, Street Fighter has all 6 buttons lit.  I love this!)











Modified a MALA skin to match the art on the marquee etc...I think it adds a cool touch to make it all come together.





Vynil coindoor sticker!



Our own scoreboard with room for 11 players to keep tabs on their scores.

I realize some people probably wouldn't want Billy Mitchell and Walter Day on their MAME cab, but I think it's hilariously awesome.  

WOW  !!! Great MAME !!!!!  

Very nice work.......its always nice to stand back and admire your work , and allow others to do so aswell.....
Oh and I LOOOOVE the "coin door"

Wow,  N*I*C*E !

You should submit these pics and text to Gameroom magazine !

Cheers,
- Sylvain.

Very nicely done! That's one of the cleanest mame cabs I've seen in a long time!

sweeeeet!

Now we need some action shots.
I love the scoreboard too.  I gotta do something like this for my pins.

When do you start the next one? and what's it gonna be?  cocktail? vpinball?

Quoted from ninjedi

sweeeeet!

Now we need some action shots.
I love the scoreboard too.  I gotta do something like this for my pins.

When do you start the next one? and what's it gonna be?  cocktail? vpinball?

Well, I'm planning on not doing anything for a good long while except enjoying it.  I'm guessing if I do another project I'll make a spinner MAME cab out of a plastic Japanese candy cabinet I've got laying around.  Pretty much would just have to install a monitor, couple of buttons a spinner and a PC and that'd be it.

Quoted from dancadera

Well, I'm planning on not doing anything for a good long while except enjoying it.  I'm guessing if I do another project I'll make a spinner MAME cab out of a plastic Japanese candy cabinet I've got laying around.  Pretty much would just have to install a monitor, couple of buttons a spinner and a PC and that'd be it.

Wouldn't it be simpler to just add a spinner to your current cab??  They don't take a lot of space...

I really like your cab BTW

Mike

excellent work.  when is it for sale or trade?  just kidding.  
   but would really like to have that in my collection.  

Wow, that's a brilliant theme for a cab and yeah, I love that scoreboard idea.  Would kind of motivate more people to join in on playing some classics.

WOW.......Great job. I really like that set up. Inspiring indeed.... The score board is a nice touch and gives me a great idea.

Thanks
TFC

What did you have to do to have the buttons light up like that?  Is that something the software handles or did you have to do something special to get it to recognize which buttons to light up?

Quoted from Vengeance

What did you have to do to have the buttons light up like that?  Is that something the software handles or did you have to do something special to get it to recognize which buttons to light up?

Mala frontend for mame handles it if you've got the LEDs plugged into this bad boy:

http://www.ultimarc.com/pacdrive.html

The pacdrive plugs into a USB port, then you wire each light to the pac drive and tell mala "this is button 1,"  "this is the credit button" etc... and it lights up whichever buttons you need automatically.  I'm guessing either mame or mala auto-detects which buttons are used per game and just lights those.  

Can't recommend the LED buttons enough.   Aside from looks they actually serve a useful purpose to tell players which buttons they need.  

Another cool thing is Ultimarc also has joysticks you can switch from 4-way to 8-way without digging under the control panel.  This is another super useful thing! You just pull the stick upwards and turn to the left or right and it switches.  

http://www.ultimarc.com/controls.html  (Mag-stick plus)

Dan

Sweet looking MAME

Quoted from dancadera

Another cool thing is Ultimarc also has joysticks you can switch from 4-way to 8-way without digging under the control panel.  This is another super useful thing! You just pull the stick upwards and turn to the left or right and it switches.  

http://www.ultimarc.com/controls.html  (Mag-stick plus)

Yea I plan on picking up those soon, I've got 4 x 8 way joysticks and 2 x 4 way joysticks on my CP.  I plan to replace the 2 of the 8 ways with the 4/8 way joystick, remove my 2 8 way joysticks and put in a tron handle and spinner.  

Maybe I'll grab the lighted buttons at the same time, but I like Hyperspin as my front end, I wonder if it supports the lighted buttons.  

I think there's an LED plugin for hyperspin.  (LEDWiz)

Nice mamecab !!!  

Very Slick. I agree with Grauwolf, a very "clean" cabinet. Slick with nice lines.