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MAME cabinet help?

maxhallmaxhall
edited August 2007 in Chit chat
Hey there,
Need a little help,
Im wanting to create a MAME cabinet (stand up) for my front room, I have a computer to run it, Monitor, Massive Sound System and a X-arcade 2 player joystick ready to rock N roll.

Does anyone know of any companys who fabricate the cabinets? I.e cut all the bits flat pack em and send them to me, so I can fabricate the beast here.
My DIY skills are crap so no point in attempting to make one from MDF and plans..will end in tears.
Ive approached a company in the states but they dont seem interested saying the shipping costs would be to much...

Anyone in the U.K who does this for a living????? I need one that will fit with the x-arcade controller....

Any Help appreciated....
Max Hall
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  • milemile
    edited August 2007
    any joiner worth his salt would be able to knock a decent one up for you at a price.

    i bet you could find some plans on the net on how to make one, and then just give him them and ask for a quote.

    it'd prolly work out cheaper than a proffesional company, cos it'd be a cash in hand thing, and you would be having to ship it anywhere.

    just a though.
  • maxhallmaxhall
    edited August 2007
    good idea batman.... . ..

    Cheers for the reply, have the plans here, will approach a joiner locally.

    Thnakx

    Max
  • beanzbeanz
    edited August 2007
    Max,

    Checkout http://www.mamemarquees.com/ for your marquees, in the US but that should be better for you with the current exchange rate.
  • DarenDaren
    edited August 2007
    MikeW who posts on here made a brilliant MAME cabinet a few years back.
  • milemile
    edited August 2007
    maxhall wrote: »
    good idea batman.... . ..

    Cheers for the reply, have the plans here, will approach a joiner locally.

    Thnakx

    Max

    once the guy has made it, paint it with some glossy black paint and spray some stencils on it. job done :)

    dont forget to make him add a small ashtray for that true retro feel.


    and post some pics when its done :)
  • BruceNortonBruceNorton
    edited August 2007
    There was an article in Retro Gamer on how to make one of these from scratch.

    Alternatively and probably cheaper for you, have a look in the yellow pages for people who do amusement machines. Sometimes they have stripped out cabs for sale then all you have to do is modify it. One place near me used to have 40 odd cabs just sat outside under a tarpaulin and he was flogging them for ?20
  • psj3809psj3809
    edited August 2007
    'Boyo' who posts occasionally at the Retro Gamer forum has built a fair few cabinets himself. He made me a bartop

    You could talk to him about materials or he could build you just a shell.

    I noticed an advert in RG last month for www.quasimoto.com

    299 quid plus shipping from the US isnt a bad price at all. I'm crap making anything like this but i must admit i would get one of these if i didnt have my bartop

    If not a search on the net should find you a few, i'm sure there was a really cheap company offering flatpacks of MAME machines which you had to then paint yourself.
  • maxhallmaxhall
    edited August 2007
    psj3809 wrote: »
    'Boyo' who posts occasionally at the Retro Gamer forum has built a fair few cabinets himself. He made me a bartop

    You could talk to him about materials or he could build you just a shell.

    I noticed an advert in RG last month for www.quasimoto.com

    299 quid plus shipping from the US isnt a bad price at all. I'm crap making anything like this but i must admit i would get one of these if i didnt have my bartop

    If not a search on the net should find you a few, i'm sure there was a really cheap company offering flatpacks of MAME machines which you had to then paint yourself.

    Hiya, "quasimoto" was the 1st place i tried, there exact words..."sorry try someone else shipping to the U.K would be to much!" - so their advert is a load of B**ocks then.........

    HEHEH
    thankx for the replys,

    Max Hall
  • psj3809psj3809
    edited August 2007
    Thought it sounded too good to be true ! Stupid they have that advert then when 95% or so are people from UK/Europe.
  • KiwiKiwi
    edited August 2007
    BruceNorton wrote: »
    There was an article in Retro Gamer on how to make one of these from scratch.

    I used that article to make my mame cabinet.
    It doesn't show or use any plans, so you are left up to your own devices.
    It took me about a week to measure, cut and build the cabinet and another 2 weeks to paint it. (Working only nights and the a bit on the weekends)
    I based all my measurements on where I wanted my X-Arcade dual stick to be placed and then positioned everything around that.
    I used an old 56cm TV and a tv out card for my old PC (a donation) and the whole thing cost less than $200 AU to build - less the x-arcade stick.

    I really enjoyed building it and it turned out really well.
    Even my missus won't let me sell it even though it takes up so much room, only because it took me so long to build and it means a lot to me.

    I reckon you should give it a go and build it yourself if you can.
  • chop983chop983
    edited August 2007
    This is probably the greatest Mame cabinet idea I've ever seen, the wife need never know
  • maxhallmaxhall
    edited August 2007
    chop983 wrote: »
    This is probably the greatest Mame cabinet idea I've ever seen, the wife need never know

    Thats a really good idea, lol
    Nice one.
    Max
  • psj3809psj3809
    edited August 2007
    Saw your thread at Retro Gamer.

    Yep thats the company i was thinking of...

    http://www.redrocketretro.co.uk

    The flatpack bartop from 185 quid looks to be excellent
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