MameGear - The Theory of arcade Chaos - Custom Arcade...

[EricCamper]

Well... I finally did it... I built my M.A.M.E. arcade cabinet. The theme is Splinter Cell and Metal Gear.... Two of my favorite games ever... which are not ARCADE games... but who cares... LOL...

I built the cabinet near the end of last summer and then it took me the rest of the time to save the money and configure the software... The cabinet emulates the following systems with ALL of the games for each...

Mame
Nintendo
Super Nintendo
Sega Dreamcast... this one is sketchy and some of the games dont work
Future Pinball
Atari 2600
Colecovision
PC Games

I installed a Vizio 26" LCD for the screen
the Pc Specs are
AMD Athlon™ II 630 quad-core processor
6GB DDR3 SDRAM
2 - 1TB hard drives
Windows 7 Home Premium 64-bit
Nvidia GTS 250

The lightguns are the old PS2 Guncon 2's modded with Ultimarcs Aimtrak IR camera which basically emulates a mouse...

The control panel has 4 players with GPWiz keyboard controllers, ICE LED trackball and LED buttons all around...
I added a 4 player coin door, fully operational, but I dont have the pics of that one...

Did all the grafx myself... Sides, Control panel, Marquee, and Bezel and mounted them on gator board...worked really well.. Enjoy the pics and if you havent gotten into this hobby... DONT... LOL just kidding... my kids love it...

Comments welcome

[percydaman]

holy crap thats full of win.

[EricCamper]

hehe... Is that good?

I have some vids too of the thing in action.. I am using Hyperspin for the Front End which runs the cabinet...

[pskdude]

This is funny as hell i would have never thought this was a hobby...nice job on it, looks GREAT! Prob better than the ones i see at the arcade...lol

[Olli96]

A W E S O M E ! Love it. If i would have the space i would love to build myself something similar.

[judderman]

Great job! Except I'd need a stool to play it, I hate standing up for long periods

[pskdude]

LMAO !!! Great idea maybe you can Build a matching BENCH TO GO ALONG WITH IT ! with some Beer Holders and backs, something like built in lazyboys =P

Great job! Except I'd need a stool to play it, I hate standing up for long periods

[EricCamper]

Yup... I have the stools AND the bar will be built this summer...

[EricCamper]

a little update... added the coin door a while ago...



and the drawer KNOB...