Cabinets and HTPC Setups Running GameEx

[emphatic]

I've sold my homebuilt cabinet recently. But now I have something that "suits my needs" a little better.

A Taito EGRET II!

(The left picture is taken with a flash and the right is without, it's just 1 cabinet )

29" dual sync monitor

Stereo sound

Easy monitor rotation mechanism (even though this will probably be in vertical mode all the time)

Plenty of room inside

Full JAMMA harness (so I can play my PCB's, this is a feature that made me sell my old cabinet since it was MAME only)

See more pictures of the EGRET II here: http://www.zax.com.au/egret2.html

I'm gonna put in new Seimitsu joysticks and buttons soon, this has been in a Japanese arcade, so the controls are pretty much worn out.

I'm waiting for another sitdown cabinet with a 29" trisync high res monitor to arrive from China that I'm gonna use for horizontal games.

Emph

[lingpanda]

I have a video on youtube of my cab. But is very old compared to this pic.

[ace3093]

Here is my Arcade running GameEx!

I still need to get a new computer to install inside and get new t-molding.

[blinkmacbeth182]

this is my temp cabinet

dell 2400 pc

wireless mouse and keyboard

wireless usb router

x-arcade joystick

x-arcade rollerball (not shown)

20-inch flat screen tv with ez tv converter (for pc to tv works great)

[ace3093]

Update to my Cabinet!

I just got my new lighted buttons and trackball! Here is an updated screen shot of the cabinet running Gameex in a room with very little light.

[Robert]

Not really a cabinet as such, but this is my setup:

GameEx with mame and lots on emulators utilizing EmuMovies on a 42" pioneer plasma:

[Jack Sparrow]

WORK IN PROGRESS....

First attempt at a cabinet, using the Asteroids style heavy cabinet plans.

An as yet unnamed Mame Cab, built using 3/4" MDF, Celeron 2.8, 1gig RAM, 160Gig HDD, 17" TFT and using Altec Lansing 5.1 remote speakers buried within.

Its taken about a month all up so far, on and off, its currently awaiting its side, bezel, control panel and marquee art and of course its joysticks, buttons and IPAC board.. Its functional though and runs as sweet as a nut

The control panel is modular and can be removed for wiring, everything is held together with turnbutton fasteners, so it could be stripped for transport in a matter of about 45 minutes

Its of course running Gameex as its front end, because it does everything you could possibly need

Ignore the current marquee, its only in there to test the lighting, its going to be replaced with a Tron Themed one soon

[ace3093]

Hey Iano,

I am running a Samsung Flat panel 24" lcd so I am not positive if that theme will run on an arcade monitor. The original monitor that came with the cabinet died about a week after I picked it up. I just finally got around to mounting the monitor in cabinet with and added the glass for the original arcade look. This was my first project and I am happy with the results. I just need to get some artwork for the sides. I was thinking about getting colored t-molding but canâ??t make up my mind.

Here is an updated pic with monitor mounted inside the cabinet.

[Tailslide]

Here's my cabinet just done.

I am new to woodworking but went slow and tried to be picky.. this is based on Knievel's 'arcade mania'.

Decided to go with a 32" LCD as the tube screens seem to have a high failure rate and will only get more expensive and harder to find.

My 4 year old loves playing anything with superheroes on it now.

[Dupre]

Far from done, but heres mine so far!

[Hunk_4TH]

Heres an updated picture of mine. It's a totally new cabinet had to tear the old one down due to it's huge size. Someone actually threw this cabinet away so I jumped all over it. It's in pretty decent shape too. Only thing that sucks is who ever threw it away stripped the Marquee/light, cut everything on the monitor and took the cp out. but other than that it's in good shape little bit of wood chips on the bottom but I'm happy with it. Sorry for the crappy picture I really need a new camera

[VIPER0904]

here's my cab

used to be a dedicated soul edge cab without the pcb, thought about getting a new pcb and bought 1 but went for gameex and mame after all, dont hate me for it plz

[deathknight]

Hi:

This is our first attempt at a MAME arcade cabinet and we would like some feedback, this took longer than I could have ever guessed, but it is finally complete. Here are some pictures: as you can see it is a Star Wars Empire Strike Back theme. We have a 27 inch Happ VGA monitor, a SlikStik classic controller, two ACT labs Heavy Duty PC USB light guns, and a working HAPP dual coin door with power to the coin door lights and credits register when inserting a quarter. We also installed two eight inch computer case fan on top of the cabinet to increase air flow with hole in the base. To access the computer are using a remote login also a wireless keyboard and mouse. We started using 3Darcade for the FE with all the 3D models of the cabinets and the videos. But now we have switch to GameEx for a FE it is more reliably and ease of use. The computer is an older Gateway 2.3Ghz Pentium with 2 GB of Rram and Nvidia GeForce4 graphics card and 1.5 TB of hard drives we were planning to use this as a media server to. Now for the games will have MAME & MAME32 running with the classical four and eight way joystick games also tracker ball games like Golden Tee, and light guns games. Also we have Pinball Mane running with several tables. We also have Daphne running Dragon Lair, Space Ace, and Dragon Lair 2 etc. We also have a virtual CD running also so we have the American Laser Game which were light gun laserdisc games example were Mad Dog McCree and Crime Patrol. Also using the virtual CD and the light guns were are running the House of the Dead 1, 2, 3 and Virtual COP 1, 2.. The next project is a cocktail table if anyone has any tips for the first time MAME cabinet builder or any other games we can add in please e-mail or post on the forum.

Thanks

[Stu1983]

Finally decided to take some photo's of my cab so I thought I upload a few of them, I still want to get some side and pannel art though

By request I've uploaded my monitor bezel to File Front

It's a 200MB PhotoShop PSD file with all the different sections stored as individual components which should allow for easy editing of the text and what not, I've attached a low res preview of it

Stu

[galaxypenguin]

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Cabinet conversion from a Spiderman: The Arcade Game. Bought on CL for 50 bucks.

Core is a Compaq laptop.

Games:

Mame32

Daphne

UrQuan Masters (look it up if you dont know - its worth your time)

GTAII

Super Mario War. Probably a must have for a cabinet.

Extras:

Karafun Karaoke

Webcam - snapshots and video (not shown). Wecam records 20 seconds of video upon launch of Mame. Screen saver set to cycle though the videos. Also custom plugin to leave a video message that also gets cycled.

Coming soon:

Scorched Earth - have to figure out how to do this without a mouse.

Full sound system redesign w/ receiver & Bose speakers.

Built in Ipod dock & Itunes launcher in GameEx. Wish there was a way to have GameEx read and play from an Ipod or somehow use command line control of Itunes.

[daweinst]

I built a mini-IPX based computer in an original NES case. It emulates MAME, NES, SNES, Genesis, N64, and WinDVD. I use the GameEx shell and GameEx to control it all.

Thanks for everyone's help getting GameEx configured. GameEx rules!!

Click here for full details of how I built it:

booteeee.blogspot.com

[Strechman]

I actually completed this in November ’07. The design borrows from many I have seen on this site and others.

The Cabinet is a modified design from Sasquatch’s Arcade Paradise 3. You can see the influence on the cabinet artwork from Knievel’s Neon MAME. Why mess with perfection?

Some Highlights:

Goodies:

Wells Gardner D9400

Happ 3 in. Trackball

Oscar Vortex Spinner

2 - UltraStik 360’s

J-Stik Ball-Top

Matrix Orbital LCD Display

Guts:

Dell Optiplex

ArcadeVGA

MiniPac

Front End:

GameEx (Thanks Tom!)

Other than that, it’s my first cabinet. I’m thinking that a nice cocktail table might be my next project.

Sorry! I meant to post it in the new announcements section

[Jamie]

My cabinet running GameEX.

27" CRT - 4000+ Dual Core - 3 Gig Ram - Creative 2.1 (With Car Speakers) 7600GT GPU.

It took 5 months to complete,but i guess it was worth it.

The main idea was to put the trackball elsewhere,And the idea has paid off to me.

Other than that its the same as others ;-)

Thanks for all the help,And to the makers of the software i use. i.e. GameEX,CPWizard,All the EMU Makers ETC.

[MrScary]

Here is my latest....bartop style...all-in-one unit. (built for someone with the last name Craven)

I am starting a store front to sell these soon...

CCArcades

[macrofeet]

Heres my cab design based on Centipede cab need to change tron logo to mk or double dragon

Spec:

AMD 1900 runing at 2ghz, 2gb ram, X1650 radeon, sblive 5.1, 4 x 15w speakers, wifi, OS:windows xp(nlite) and Game EX - I-PAC PCB

22 inch crt monitor

[Hunk_4TH]

Nice cab Macrofeet! Here's some progress on my cabinet. Me and my dad have been working hard on it off and on. So it's not the best but I'm proud of it Still a lot of work needs to be done to it. I'm upgrading to an Ipac soon so right now I'm using the guys out of my X-arcade then I'll rebuild it.

[Looter619]

Here is one of my CAB Running GameEx

20" CRT - Pentium Board & P4 - 1 Gig Ram - Creative 2.1 Speakers with Sub - 300 Gig's.

Here are two of my other projects I will post them once they are done.

[TalkingBull]

Here are some pics of my touchscreen system running GameEx. I built the bartop for myself and the mini-cab for a buddy who wanted a jukebox as well.

Here are the construction pics of this cab

http://www.flickr.com/photos/25451458@N02/...57606678254094/

[guilty]

I'm kind of new to these forums, but have been lurking for quite some time.

About a 3 months ago I bought an old Neo-Geo cab with Bust-A-Move.

It was in bad shape, I cleaned it up, gutted it, and mamed it out. It took me about 3 weeks, but a lot of hours.

I did cheat and used a x-arcade panel. Only because the equation of time + money > buying x-arcade.

And I acutally got more buttons and functionality for less money.

I have a before pic and after. Let me know what you guys think.

edit- there's some kind of strangeness going on in the after pic. the paint on the cab is not smeared like that.

guilty1

[wubble]

Just registered this wonderful program, and it works so well that I'm inspired to build a cabinet, probably starting with an x-arcade controller and a few sheets of MDF?* In the meantime here is my very humble setup. The controller is a plasticy playstation arcade stick made by thrustmaster, and the game is batman the movie on the zx spectrum (roots!).

edit: just ordered a dual x-arcade from the states woohoo

edit2: So here is a picture *slightly* more worthy of this thread

edit3: Added a cheapo old-fashioned sony trinitron

*I've built a racing simulation cockpit for Grand Prix Legends so I know that it's a big project