Plans For Building A Mame Cabinet

Any time i start a new project i always love going out and doing research.

Plans for building a mame cabinet.

Using mame building a mame cabinet. In the cabinet plans section i detail the construction of my first mame arcade cabinet built specifically around the x arcade controller. But it was still quite expensive and i wouldn t have had the same satisfaction that i know i m going to get after building my own cabinet. This is a semi full tutorial that will break down each piece of building a cabinet.

Although exactly what your. A huge win was discovering the build your own arcade controls website dedicated to people who had already built mame cabinets and resources with how to find anything you need to make your own cabinet. The plan for an lcd mame cabinet finished mame cabinet when i finally committed to building my own mame cabinet so i could play classic arcade games i decided i wanted to use an lcd monitor instead of a crt arcade monitor. I decided on a 25 1 2 width based loosely on the measurements from build a mame cabinet in 24 hours.

I saw a mame cabinet on ebay a few months and i very nearly bought it. I include a great many photos of the construction process to assist even a complete novice builder. Needless to say i m pretty happy with the way it turned out. The cabinet was completed in the garage using only a circular saw a 15 jigsaw from kmart a 15 hand sander and a drill.

The plans for the cabinet were loosely based upon lusid s work but with modifications to the dimensions and control panel. I spent hundreds of hours looking at all of the websites absorbing all the information i could and considering a. A small hand miter saw was needed to do the molding. I could have saved myself a lot of time and effort there instead of attempting to build one myself.

With that in mind picking what style of cabinet you want to build for your mame machine is one of the toughest and most important decisions you ll have to make. As we weren t using the same wood thickness as was mentioned in the plan it really just served as a guide to ensure that the machine looked correct once assembled. Also below is a pdf file that will help y. Build one or buy one.

There are two ways to own your own mame arcade cabinet. For the lazy in all of us the easiest way is to just go to ebay and buy a pre assembled mame machine for around 2 300. I hope this helps you with your goal of building your own mame cabinet.