Building A Mame Cabinet

Using mame building a mame cabinet.

Building a mame cabinet.

I had known about mame for some time but never considered actually building one. If your running windows you ll want to use mame32 which gives a nice gui around the mame engine. 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 have basically always wanted to do one even before mame was around.

I could have saved myself a lot of time and effort there instead of attempting to build one myself. Hey guys this is a basic little step by step for building your own home arcade. All the fun of playing arcade games on a full size standing cabinet all the usefulness of six pull out drawers worth of extra storage space. While browsing the web one day i found some examples.

Build one or buy one. How to build an arcade cabinet for gaming and storage. The construction pictures made everything look straightforward and easy. There are two ways to own your own mame arcade cabinet.

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. Well after a few months of thinking of building a mame cabinet i m on my way. Hey chris i min the process of building my own cabinet similar to what todd did. When i was a kid i had the great idea of putting an nes in a cabinet and using the nes advantage a.

I saw a mame cabinet on ebay a few months and i very nearly bought it. This is a semi full tutorial that will break down each piece of building a cabinet. 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. Also below is a pdf file that will help y.

Doc s cabinet how to build a cabinet. I thought i would post my progress and such. Building the cabinet was a bit of an impulse.