My Arcade Cabinet

fergie666

fergie666

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Hey guys,

Well I thought it was about time I showed off my new arcade cabinet !

I purchased it about a month ago as a non working original Paperboy cabinet from 1985

I put about 150 - 200 hours of work into it and about £350 in total but what I have now is worth twice that at least but it is priceless to me :)

I forgot to take pictures of the cabinet when I first got it lol, I was just to keen to pull it apart and start converting it.

I done regular video logs for each step of the process and you can check them out on my youtube channel

YouTube - xTHExSTIGx

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Hope you like it, let me know what you think ;)
 
rp2000 said:
Awesome!!

I only had time to watch part of the video, but will watch the rest when I get time.

Would you mind saying what is in the machine, Hardware wise?
All I know from your above reply is that it has 2 rewired joysticks or joypads, but a full list would be great!!


rp2000
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Thanks mate, yes no probs. The PC inside is a Abit AV8 mobo, AMD 3700+ CPU, 2 gig Corsair XMS Platinum RAM, Nvidia 7800GS gfx card, 120gb IDE hard drive, windows XP

The controls were built from scratch using a proper I-pac interface which emulates a USB keyboard. I was originally going to rewire some joypads but eventually went the i-pac route

The monitor is a 22" Sony Trinitron CRT
 
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pmbuzz said:
I just spent the last hour watching your vids, you really are a games nutter....lol

Congrats on getting your cab finished, it looks absolutely fantastic, you did a great job amd i know you put a lot of hard work into it, i bet it brings a smile to your face every time you see/use it :D
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LOL Thanks mate ! Yeah I do like a game or two hehe. Thanks for checking out my vids. Yeah the cab makes me very happy : )

Thanks to the rest of you guys kind comments also :)
 
Mr Latte said:
Forgot to say Fergie, it would be great to continue this and show us more on the front end when you get it all sorted. For me Id maybe be interested in a steering wheel arcade unit, or Daytona and other classics yet know very little about much of this.
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The guy I got the Paperboy cabinet off, had an upright Super Monaco GP cabinet also, it wasn't working but it was complete. Great base for a conversion : )

Will continue the vids on the front end once I have the latest version of Maximus Arcade installed : )

Cheers
 
SiHH said:
Fergie666

Just looking on your website at the ColecoVision you have and I can't believe you never had "Turbo" !!

I had that game with the steering wheel and foot pedal.... ahhh memories :D

Can't view Youtube from work but looking forward to having a nosey when I get home, great job :)
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Thanks mate. Yeah I have never owned Turbo : ( I want a steering wheel controller at some stage but it needs to be boxed and minty, to fit in with my console : )

Will get one some day, they fetch a fair old price when boxed
 
thedoc46 said:
Very cool indeed. Hey did you opt for an Octaganal gate or a square one on the sticks? some of the great classics much prefering a 4 way only, I've always found the oct a decent compromise?

Also what about launching the games, what way do you do that. I've often toyed with idea of a similar thing, but the idea of maybe hving to use a mouse to launch titles put me off. Is there some kind of interface that auto launches and you can just use the sticks to launch?
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Thanks mate. Yeah I went with an octagonal gate. The front end (maximus arcade) is launched with windows, from there all navigation and game launching is done with the sticks and buttons. Watch the video I attached in the first post as I show how I do it in that.

Cheers
 
@thedoc46

Isn't that crappy pacman machine the one that Billy Mitchel practiced on to set his world record ? I would love to see it in person. So much history in the cabinet !

Good luck getting your own cab mate, don't be getting yourself in trouble with the missus though !

Finding a cheap cabinet can be hard. Don't expect to find one cheap on ebay, they are well overpriced on there.

I found my Paperboy cab locally through Gumtree, it was broken but complete and I paid £100 for it. Luckily I was able to get it home without having to pay any shipping cost
 
thedoc46 said:
I don't think it's the same machine. Surely the machine that holds the world record would be worth something? This was just for public use.. Though I could be wrong.. One thing I will say his resturant was in the hood. I mean I wanted to eat up fast and get back outside before i came out to a car on bricks. Lots of bums walking up and down with shopping carts.. My missus was WTF did you bring me here for.. I was ummm but it's the guy who holds the world record blah blah blah..

As for getting the cab at 100quid.. nice one, but i'm sure it was in a state. I'm not so handy on woodwork unfortunately, so i'd probably want a new cab.. One again you probably already know but Archer Maclean (old programmer on the C64 & Atari dropzone and Internatial Karate .....LIKE I REALLY NEED TO TELL YOU !!! Anyway he's into restoring cabs and has a decent collection.
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He owns a chain of restaurants, "Ricky's" so it's may not be the same machine, but in his main restaurant he has the machine he used to PRACTICE on. The one he set the world record on is in funspot I believe which is where they go to set the records on the old arcades.

I know of Archer Maclean, I have a few of his games but I never knew he was into restoring old cabinet, that cool to know, thanks !

My cab was pretty rough but the woodwork was solid, I just needed to repair a couple of corners in the woodwork. It would have cost me as much, probably more to build the cabinet.
 
thedoc46 said:
Here you go..

http://www.rickeysrestaurant.net/aboutus.html

The Hollywood one was the one I went too. To taste his 'World Famous' hot sauce.. FunSpot is somewhere i'd love to check out, but being in New Hampshire, you are probably closer to it than me :D They did however go into an Arcade in Hollywood FL, in King of Kong, maybe I'll check that place out next time i'm in that neck of the woods.

As for Archer Maclean, oh yeah he's bang into it.. Has a huge collection now, i can't remember how i know, probably through an old copy of Game magazine. Or maybe RetroGamer magazine.. It was impressive though the amount of time he spent per cab restoring.
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LOL Rickey's does look like a right dive, Not even any windows in the place lol

I was just reading some stuff about archer maclean there on the net

http://www.ionpool.net/arcade/archuk/edge_interview.html

http://www.ionpool.net/arcade/archuk/archer_restoration.html
 
Wicksta said:
Here's my one:

The cabinet cost me 12 Euros when I lived in Germany (yes TWELVE euros!!). Arcade machines weren't very popular over there at the time. It's a generic JAMMA cabinet and I wanted it to be as authentic as possible so I'm using the proper 15khz arcade moniter and a J-PAC connected to an old PC running advancemame. It cost me about 50 Euros in total to build. ;)
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Beautiful mate ! Really cool. I can't believe it cost 12 euro ! I am jealous lol. Being really into the whole gaming community on youtube, I see americans picking these things up for nothing all the time and it ****es me off ! They are ten a penny over there.

Did you bring yours home with you from Germany ?

Thanks for sharing ;)
 
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