Popular Post Sorensin Posted September 5, 2016 Popular Post Share Posted September 5, 2016 So I have lines of cars that require work but I hate cars so instead of working on them I'm doing this. I currently have this original mega bomberman world arcade in my man cave but I doesn't suit the look of the rest of the room and it only has one game in it. I thought of adding some games to this but the current setup is for four players with only 2 buttons each where lots of games are for only a couple players requiring up to six buttons. Thoughts of lots of options were considered but making a new machine was the winner. I will be running a Jamma setup just like the mega bomber man, some computer setups seemed pretty cool but I like the idea I can run original cartridges and games if I want to. I have purchased some toys for the project, the black box and blue cartridge both have hundreds of games on them, there is the wiring for a jamma setup with two players at six buttons each, the motherboard looking card is a jamma card selector, it can run up to 6 cartridges and you can select which one you want from the remote and there is two new joysticks, player 1 & 2 buttons and 6 blue and 6 red buttons. I will still need to buy a monitor which I think I will be just use a 32" tv, a amp and speakers,coin mechanism doors and some access doors. 10 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sorensin Posted September 5, 2016 Author Share Posted September 5, 2016 So the plan is the cabinet is going to a wooden exterior, I purchased some recycled wooden rimu flooring, the flooring has been milled down and is 12mm thick so I also got some 6mm mdf sheets I can glue the rimu to the mdf and make a cabinet. I spent some time making up a paper pattern of how I wanted this new cabinet to look, its similar to my original one but it isn't rounded anywhere all the edges are straight, the top is wider to accommodate for the 32" screen and the area where the controllers are is smaller. I then drew the patterns onto the 6mm mdf I then clamped tow pieces of mdf together and cut out the two sides of the bottom half of the cabinet Pieces of rimu were then glued together with some PVA 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GuyWithAviators Posted September 5, 2016 Share Posted September 5, 2016 Neat! Have you seen these? http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLice_sU_6Rfhw7LK-tl8A8u1XYQKeuFri Has some cool ideas. Following your thread with interest. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SiRge Posted September 5, 2016 Share Posted September 5, 2016 Very cool, brother used to have all this stuff, might even have some buttons left over. Should have a look see if there's anything. You could multi purpose and run a raspberrypi setup as well through the TV, get some PS3 controllers too and then you can play anything else that might tickle ya fancy 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sorensin Posted September 5, 2016 Author Share Posted September 5, 2016 Neat! Have you seen these? http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLice_sU_6Rfhw7LK-tl8A8u1XYQKeuFri Has some cool ideas. Following your thread with interest. Hey I have seen Pi before as I'm a Nintendo fan boy and follow a few Nintendo groups where these have popped up. I havn't looked into trying to run both Pi and Jamma but I know I want to run Jamma but I may look into how messy it would be to have the one cabinet run both. Thanks for the interest. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SiRge Posted September 5, 2016 Share Posted September 5, 2016 I got a Pi that you can borrow if you need to, already has retropi etc all on it 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sorensin Posted September 6, 2016 Author Share Posted September 6, 2016 Took the first side of the base and glued up some rimu sections(3-4boards already glued together) together and to the base, clamped them all down and put some weight on them. I have realized how slow and painful this build is going to be, clamping time with a lack of space and clamps is killing me. While waiting for this to dry I went out and purchased some more mdf 18x600x1800, this is going to be used for the pieces you won't see eg the base of the unit and the horizontal pieces between the top and bottom half of the cabinet, this mdf is near perfect as the bottom half I'm going to use the 600 as the width between the two side so it's already cut perfectly square for me. I also went shopping around for a good screw while I didn't find exactly what I was after I found these reasonably sweet torx head screws. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tele29 Posted September 7, 2016 Share Posted September 7, 2016 Cool project. I have been wanting to do a MAME cabinet for years. I have a couple of HDD's with thousands of ROM's on them. Allegedly. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stu Posted September 7, 2016 Share Posted September 7, 2016 Have built a few mame cabnets over the years, so so rad Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kicker Posted September 8, 2016 Share Posted September 8, 2016 Nice work Matt, keeping it simple game wise is a good idea. I setup a Mame cabinet briefly, ended up with 50GB worth of games but all I wanted play was SF2, Rampage, 1941 and Altered Beast. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sorensin Posted September 11, 2016 Author Share Posted September 11, 2016 So spent some time this weekend working on the cabinet. Have pretty much completed the two bottom side pieces (need a couple little cuts and some sanding). Glued plenty of panel together and glued them to a side of a top piece Because the cabinet is made from recycled flooring glued to thin mdf I can't really just screw or nail the outer pieces together to make the cabinet so I started making a frame for the bottom half of the cabinet aswell. This cabinet is going to way a ton when its finished the frame isn't light and neither are the side pieces . Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sorensin Posted September 15, 2016 Author Share Posted September 15, 2016 So you might be thinking, wow that's weird shouldn't one of those pieces he's made up be a mirror image of the other and not facing the same way... well I to was thinking the same thing when i put them next to each other... I really balls'd this one up. This evening is a little depressing, I cut out the sides to the top piece to discover I had glued one onto the mdf backwards, this was past just a little annoying as there was a few afternoons of gluing and clamping there and i don't have a huge amount of the rimu flooring spare and it's a real effort and expense for me to try get more. Just incase that wasn't enough I came on here to put my my almost non existent progress to see that I had forgotten tonights monthly meet. update pic of the bottom half of the cabinets frame complete. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Seedy Al Posted September 15, 2016 Share Posted September 15, 2016 Dude I feel for you! Im just going to say tho, the workmanship looks rad! This is going to be pretty cool indeed. I own an old school street fighter cabinet somewhere. I often forget about that lol. Keen to see final product. Once again, sorry to read about your miss hap. Wouldn't be the first person for sure! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SiRge Posted September 15, 2016 Share Posted September 15, 2016 Bugger, feels, I found the prices at ironman (?) recyclers on whakatiki Street upper hutt pretty reasonable. Way cheaper than new, but still probably a bit more than you want to spend lol. Booted up that raspberry Pi yet? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tortron Posted September 15, 2016 Share Posted September 15, 2016 looks like you are just going to have to make 2 4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bling Posted September 16, 2016 Share Posted September 16, 2016 Could you trim both to be symmetrical? Frame will need adjusting obviously, but that is easier / cheaper than remaking one side perhaps? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Steelies Posted September 16, 2016 Share Posted September 16, 2016 can you do this? edit, nah that bit will need to face MDF outwards. lame. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jakesae101 Posted September 16, 2016 Share Posted September 16, 2016 can you do this? edit, nah that bit will need to face MDF outwards. lame. would work it you turned up upside down wouldn't it? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
8ball Posted September 16, 2016 Share Posted September 16, 2016 Remove the wood from the mdf as careful as possible then light sand where it was glued and flip the wood and glue to a new piece of mdf. (Opposite to original glued side) Will give you a mirror image of what you got now. Messy- yes Time consuming -yes. But may save ya buying more wood panels Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sorensin Posted September 16, 2016 Author Share Posted September 16, 2016 would work it you turned up upside down wouldn't it? This wouldn't work at all even if I made a new top piece, the angle of the front face is steeper than the angle on the back piece, I considered seeing if I could cut it all down a little to get two pieces that would work but they end up a little small for what I'd like. I just have to remake a piece, it's not that bad was just very frustrated at the time. Remove the wood from the mdf as careful as possible then light sand where it was glued and flip the wood and glue to a new piece of mdf. (Opposite to original glued side) Will give you a mirror image of what you got now. Messy- yes Time consuming -yes. But may save ya buying more wood panels I could try this but I don't like my chances the PVA is amazing and the wood breaks before the glue lets go on the joins, the only hope would be that the MDF breaks off just a little bit leaving some on the wood. That's the best case scenario and even if that happens I have to hope the glue that will be on the wood paneling won't effect the stain that's going to go on it. Could you trim both to be symmetrical? Frame will need adjusting obviously, but that is easier / cheaper than remaking one side perhaps? I looked at that, it ends up a little small for what I'd like it to be, I was considering running a 27" screen for a while and if I did that I'd be fine but I'd prefer to be running a 32" Thanks for all the ideas, I think the best answer is to just grow a pair stop winging and make another piece, I don't want to compromise the desired end result over it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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