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ExaDrive 2 Case: Apex MI-008 (Mini ITX) MB: ASUS P8H61-I Rev 2.0 CPU: Core i3 2120 @ 3.3GHz RAM: 8GB Dual Channel DDR3-1333MHz GPU: GeForce GT 1030 HDD: WD Blue 2TB 5400RPM/64MB Cache SSD: WD Blue 500GB SATA III Optical: Samsung 48X DVD+RW Slimline 802.3: Realtek Gb NIC 802.11: Rosewill 150-N USB WiFi Bluetooth: Targus BT 4.1 USB PSU: 230W ITX OS: Windows 7 Ultimate x64 (Custom) Interface: GameEX v13.10 Inputs: (2x) Sony Dualshock 3 This is the continuation of a Linux based HTPC system I started last year (ExaDrive) and originally used Kodi and Mah!Cade for interfacing with games and media, even when switching to Windows 7 x64 as the primary OS. Recently I replaced that with GameEX. It emulates 33 systems in addition to running 80 DOS and Windows games currently. Games as recent as Skyrim, Bioshock Infinite, Doom 2016 and Wolfenstein - The New Order are all very playable at 720p on the budget level GeForce card it has. Also, despite the CPU being a budget level model that's over six years old as of this writing no MAME game I've tried runs less than 100% and PSP, PS2, Dreamcast and Saturn emulation is just as good. The OS is extremely ripped down and customized for speed. Using NTLite and dozens of manual tricks and optimizations I was able to patch the OS to current levels then rip its install size down to 6GB. It has no support for printing, international languages, entire classes of hardware the machine will never have, tons of core Windows features/components and many other things a typical PC would need. It also runs BBLean as its shell and has dozens of services disabled. POST to usability takes about 40 seconds. Used RAM on a cold boot is around 700MB. The Dualshock 3s are driven by SCP Toolkit, which presents them as XBox controllers to the OS. Rumble is fully supported, even for DirectInput games by using a passthrough driver for XInput rumble. Most things are controlled by them via a program called AntiMicro, which allows them to send keyboard and mouse inputs to the machine. Arcade, 8bit, 16bit, 32X, GBA and N64 games are 7zipped. ISOs and Nintendo DS games are NTFS compressed and Sega CD + Turbo CD games are in ISO+MP3 and ISO+OGG format, respectively, to further save space. Handling of decompression and running games is handled by a huge batch script I wrote that GameEX points to (It also supports Zip, RAR and NanoZip archives for ROMs). Web browsing and WiFi management are possible using gamepads in spite of the lack of both functions in GameEX via Antimicro and a few AutoIT scripts I wrote. It's kind of clunky, but it works! Emulated Systems PC Games

It has the following goodies: 21.5" LED 2 TB Hard Drive FX 4130 Quad Core CPU 8 GB Ram GTX 650 Ti Video Card Windows 7 64 700 Watt PSU The arcade goodies are the following: Zippyy Arcade Joysticks I-Pac encoder LED Buttons LED-Wiz Control Board Spin-Trak Spinner Dial w/ Blue&Sliver Knob & Energy Cylinder 2X Xbox 360 Wireless controllers Buliding the following machine as we speak should have it ready in a few days (Justice League) Quad Wide Body with a 42" LED

Hey guys this is my Arcade Cab I made about a month ago. Using GameEx for the front end interface. Here is a progress video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=amc7OnGl2EU

So I felt that I should show off the Arcade that I have been building for years. All of our cabinets use the GameEx front end software. So here are our 3 machines. The ? Box is called "Game Random" and it contains about 200 of the best, worst, and joke games around. There is only 1 way to select a game and that's through the "Play Random Game" The purple cabinet is called the "King-Kade" This one was built by Scoobie Snack but it lives at my house and is a part of the Artcade. It specializes in 3 and 4 player games, plus those games that utilize light guns. Now the bizzare Domo looking cabnet is "Guitar Fighter" It's set up face to face, and you play fighting games like Mortal Kombat and Street Fighter on it using Dance Dance Revolution pads for movement, and Guitar Hero guitars for attacks.

Here is a Super Smash Bros themed 2 player bartop I just finished.

EDIT: Tspeirs: Most of the posted images are in the gallery now. Click Gallery link. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Share pictures of your cabinet running GameEx by Replying to this topic. This topic should be for info about your cabinet project only. If you wish to comment on a cabinet, please post a new topic. Thanks.

Here is a build using a Marvel collage theme. It was a blast to build.

ARCADEGATE AG-1 This is a bar top arcade that I started years ago, but took a long break from building because I was wanting to integrate a Traxsys 38mm trackball into the control panel. I never could design a track ball plate that was good enough to hold it. Also, the design was not as portable as I had hoped. It was heavy and difficult to throw into the back seat of a car. In my frustration, I let it sit. About a year later, my wife asked if I could finish it for her child care. So, I did but this time without the trackball. I am a huge fan of Stargate <Anything> and thought it would be fun to make an arcade build based off of that theme, just arcade sprites versus "chevrons". I found a wonderful 3D model of a Stargate on the internet and went to work replacing the chevrons with 31 arcade sprites as the new symbols on the gate. I rendered the gate from a couple of angles and that made up the majority of the artwork pieces for the cab. For the background of the cab, I downloaded different high resolution space images from NASA, thanks to the Hubble telescope. I blended a few of those pictures together as well as alter the hue slightly to somewhat match the colors I was shooting for. The theme I am using is a modified version Blue Neon LCD. I found a great picture of a Atlantis Stargate room with some HUD type overlays on it. I update the image to include the ArcadeGate I rendered and started moving pieces of the theme around to fit within the HUD locations. Lastly, I hue shift many images of the theme from the blue neon to more of the bluish-green that the ArcadeGate room had. This project took me years to complete, but in actually about 6 weeks worth of total time. The majority of that time was spent on the artwork and configuring the software. Hardware Asrock A330ION Atom processor/motherboard combo 4GB RAM 500GB Hard drive picoPSU-120 power supply Smart Strip 3.5" speakers off E-bay. Mini audio amplifier pcb off E-bay Paradise Arcade IL Pushbuttons Paradise Arcade Sanwa JLW-TM-8 joysticks with Octagonal restrictor. GroovyGameGear 4NovaGemCDR Coin Drop Replacement Pushbuttons Ultimarc i-Pac 4 Software Windows XP 32-bit Home Premium GameEx front end with a new ARCADEGATE AG-1 theme, modified from Blue Neon LCD's theme MAME 0.124 custom compiled for optimization for Atom processor Future Pinball

Back in December I got the urge to put together my own custom cabinet. No wife to stifle the manic desire to relive the golden age of wasteful spending at the local "wonderland" (they took Nickels). As a result this was born: $500 - Custom built PC (AMD phenom x2 unlocked to x4, 120GB SSD OS drive/640GB Data HDD) $250 - Building materials & marquee printout. $250 - Vertically mounted Visio 32" TV hooked in via RGB $200 - X-Arcade tanksticks w/ trackball (works great as the mouse!) $50 - Coin door (accept quarters) $25 - Smartswitch power strip switches on marquee light, coin led, and exhaust fan when computer on. $1275 - Approxamate total cost. I already had the TV and replaced it earlier with a better one. I also had many of the computer parts laying around from previous custom PC builds and was planning a mini ITX built anyway. So the real cost was more like $525 over a few months time. So it was not too bad. The real issue has been integrating the software for a screen in portrait.

Here's a write-up on my GameEx based cab called the Project X Arcade that I built last year. I just finished a fairly major overhaul that you can read about in Part IV. Project X Arcade

This project was inspired by a Sam Seide's mini cocktail project. I always wanted to build one of these but thought you'd be limited to vertical cocktail games. When I found out, through Sam's video, that MAME can do Cocktail mode for horizontals I was ready to start work. This project took me 4 weeks to complete. The majority of that time was spent on the artwork and configuring the software. Hardware Asus EEE PC 1201N Dual 1.6Ghz Atom, 4GB RAM, 128GB SSD iHome iHM78 Speakers Ultimarc ServoStiks modded with [urlhttp://groovygamegear.com]GroovyGameGear Versa-Micro User-Adjustable Arcade Switches GroovyGameGear 4NovaGemCDR Coin Drop Replacement Pushbuttons Paradise Arcade IL Pushbuttons with Rollie Leaf Switches. Ultimarc U-HID Traxsys 38mm trackball (for system administration) Software Windows 7 64-bit Home Premium GameEx front end with a Vertical Galaga theme MAME 0.147u4 custom compiled for optimization for Atom processor MESS 0.147 for console emulators Future Pinball HeadKaze CPWizard XBMC

Heres Mine. I Still havent Got The Marquee Or Bezel Done Bcuz I Dont Know Where To Get Any Custom From

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/

(inside) (stainless steel) SPECIFICATIONS: CPU AMD Athlon 64 3200+ RAM GeIL 512MB DDR PC3200 HDD Seagate 80Gb, 8Mb cache, NCQ, SATA Motherboard ASUS A8N-VM CSM - GeForce 6150 onboard - Dual VGA out (DVI-D & RGB) - HD audio onboard Monitors 2 x Samsung 172X - 8ms (1280x1024) Network Netgear WPN111 Wireless USB Adapter 802.11G (108Mbps MIMO Tech) Sound Sony Xplod amp - 50W RMS per channel 4 x 4" Sony Xplod 30W RMS speakers Volume - 100k Log dual gang pot Cooling 2 x Antec 120mm Red Fans Zalman ZM-NB47J Northbridge Heatsink Anodised aluminium air vents Input 16 x 30mm Pushbutons Sanwa Joysticks Electronic coin mechanism Ultimart I-PAC 2 Stand 1.6mm 304 grade stainless steel 50mm square tubing Brushed finish Top 19mm solid pine - dark oak finish 16mm MDF base Glass 6mm toughened safety glass