BootHammer

Thanks Draco! It was a really fun process from imagining the design and features to finally seeing the completed product in working form. Blasting through all the classics from a custom arcade cab is hard to beat =)

Thanks for the kind words nullPointer, glad you liked it! I've always wanted one to play all the terrific old-school games on. It came out pretty fantastic IMO. I was lucky enough to have a friend who really know's his way around carpentry work =) We would like to build a racing based arcade cab next for Gran Turismo and Forza It was a lot of fun planning and designing it. Wish I had only started on it sooner ;b

Arcades were at one time always crowded and filled with gamers. It was a fun experience to shoot for the top score or go head to head in the latest arcade brawler. Things have changed though since the explosion of home consoles and gaming PC’s. Their emergence have all but slowly extinguished arcades from malls and outlets. While gaming consoles and PC’s offer incredible performance for the price, there is something missing. Part of the exciting arcade experience is lost when you throw a standard controller in the mix and game from the comfort of the couch. While I love modern gaming I still heavily enjoy the retro titles from the past. To recapture this lost era and overall experience I began researching in great detail about arcade cabinets. This included the different types and styles available and their varying price range and overall offerings. Multiple vendors offer prebuilt units but usually this meant they only played one certain game from a particular genre. While those machines are still nostalgic and enjoyable in their own right I still wanted more. It was at this point that I realized that a custom build would be ideal. This would cut cost and open the door for endless options in regards to the cabinet’s design and its configuration. Luckily, I am good friends with an excellent carpenter that was even more excited than myself to get started on the project. Once the design, features and specs were mapped out we set off to buy and order the needed supplies. After all the parts and materials were in place the actual build took roughly 5 full days. If you wish to have your own personal arcade cabinet, contact Chris at [email protected]. He will be happy to discuss the different plans available, prices and options. Each unit can be completely customized to your liking making it truly one of a kind. Below is a video of the finished work, materials, tools and a short preview of playable games. Materials/parts: Viewsonic VA2703 27″ 1920×1080 3ms DVI LCD Monitor X-Arcade Tankstick + Trackball Arcade Coin Door With Coin Mech Custom Built Gaming PC with GameEx Front-end Altec Lansing 5.1 Surround Speaker System 3- 3/4 4×8 sheets of hardwood plywood 4- 1x2x8 5lbs box of wood screws 1 5/8 long Wood glue 1/4 x 2 x 8 pine Gallon of gloss black paint Wood filler 2x6x8 12 volt fan for cooling 12″ light Plexiglass 1/4 thick 25 foot roll of 14/2 wire 2 electrical boxes 1 light switch 1 outlet and a GFCI outlet adapter to 6 plugs Appliance cord Wire nuts 120 to 12 volt converter 8 – 12 volt red LED lights Reflective tape Furniture gliders for bottom Tools: Cordless drill Countersink bit Table saw Compound miter saw Palm sander Hole saw Jig saw Air nailer [media=] Please visit my site BootHammer.com for the full article and many more pictures of the build! http://boothammer.co...arcade-cabinet/

I"ll definitely post pics up of the arcade cab and thanks again for all the help fellows ;7 Is there a specific thread/section for arcade cab builds?

Thanks guys! Can't believe how helpful everyone was...awesome forum =) Got it up and running now. I'm sure I"ll be back with more questions as the process gets closer to completion for the arcade cabinet. Really appreciate everyone's advice and direction!

What do you mean exactly by system? I using a PC running XP SP3, 1024MB Ram, Nvidia 6800GT (with rolled back driver for better compatibility) and using GameEx as the frontend. Someone is presently building an Arcade cab for me and I'm trying to get this PC to run in the background as seamlessly as possible through GameEx. Will also be using the X-arcade Tankstick for controls. Let me know if there is any other info that might help. Appreciate the advice and help man! Other emulators other than fusion include: Snes9x, Jnes, FCE Ultra and ZSNES...these all work perfectly.

Can't win tonight, lol. Copying all that info into a post is throwing an error on here. Geez, here is the info attached as a notepad document...not sure if that helps any or not. Also attached pics of the process. GameEx ini.txt

Thanks for info! The emulator title: Kega Fusion v3.64 (NOMAPLE) (Windows) © Steve Snake 2010. Once in GameEx I select emulated games, the fusion emulator and it sees the roms I have but upon loading it throws that error and brings up the blank screen with the FPS counter. Emulator config attached Fusion.ini GameEx.ini

I have the Fusion emulator (tried others through gamex as well) and I'm just trying to open it through the Gamex frontend software. It sees the emulator and sees the roms but I always get that error. Total noob at this obviously How and where do you run command lines? I thought the nice thing about Gamex was it was all basically automated once setup. It runs the NES and SNES emulators with ease so I'm not sure what is going on with the Sega stuff.

I've got all emulators working (NES, SNES) but can't get any Sega roms to load. It says "no sms or gg files. When I click ok on the error it loads a black screen with simply a FPS counter and nothing else. I can get the Fusion emulator to load the games manually (outside of Gamex) but it won't work within the frontend. I've tried using zip from files, unzipped rom files, renaming them with sms on the end with no success. Any ideas guys? Appreciate any help or direction here =)