Full sized MAME machines take up too much space...
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Project Arcade
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So I've built two full sized machines, and I've sold both of them...they just take up a lot of space that the significant other isn't always crazy about (even if it's in the garage). The solution is to build just the control panel, and put all the guts inside. Here are a couple of pics...the trackball is all wired in, the right and left mouse buttons work, there's an expansion port (and 4x USB hub for controllers) on the side (hookup a second one for 4 player games;), RCA, S-Video, ethernet, wifi, etc. It's the only way to go...hehe, too bad I'm never satisfied, now I'm planning to sell this one and build an even smaller one, probably half-inch stock to cut down the weight and so forth. Good times.
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So I've built two full sized machines, and I've sold both of them...they just take up a lot of space that the significant other isn't always crazy about (even if it's in the garage). The solution is to build just the control panel, and put all the guts inside. Here are a couple of pics...the trackball is all wired in, the right and left mouse buttons work, there's an expansion port (and 4x USB hub for controllers) on the side (hookup a second one for 4 player games ;), RCA, S-Video, ethernet, wifi, etc. It's the only way to go...hehe, too bad I'm never satisfied, now I'm planning to sell this one and build an even smaller one, probably half-inch stock to cut down the weight and so forth. Good times.
http://storyid.freeshell.org/arcade
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