Reg

Here are a few more pics... The coin mech and hopper. The PC... The device stripped down for a move upstairs to be converted... Ready to join it's brother in an MFME only cabinet...

Yeah indeed - however in fairness - this may not be such a big job IF I can find the equal parts. I am not too worried about the note acceptor on this, it seems bust. Although powers up it does not take anything and I do have a couple of old £5 notes I kept as well. I do worry tho - I don't think they didn't the Compact Hopper MkII in a parallel version.

Tonight I mad a choice about the marquee which has now cost £30 to do. The one risk I have with this is I might change buttons and it's a lot of work to get the marquee changed time and time again so I need flexibility where I am looking to show navigation buttons and this is where I thought of menu holders. The measurements for the top panel are 41cm x 24cm. I am not going to go with a curved top it will be rectangle. Below is a typical menu holder. If I get two sheets of custom cut acrylic and seal the left, right and bottom sides, I can make it so that the marquee can drop in the top like below. The final touch will be the rounding of the corners of the acrylic so it looks nice. For this work I have used https://www.sheetplastics.co.uk and when the sheets arrive I have to do the following. Put a small spacer on the left, right and bottom of it. Think clear piece of plastic giving just enough height to slide in a marquee. Glue it all together - superglue will be fine. This will be so light it can safely be mounted over the "Bank Job" area on the cabinet and be fit for any marquee to go in there and also allowing change. For the design I have used @A:E to help here. Those costs will not be shown as that is external from the "cabinet build" and part of the nice bits and it's unfair to quote the work here as if somebody else does this, their needs would be different and personal to them that is again - a different amount of time and effort. ETA for the acrylic is 9 days. Good to get rolling with this now...

Today it arrived... ...will power it on tomorrow - but first thoughts are wow, this was a lot heavier then it looked and what a well built cabinet. I have a feeling this is going to work out just fine...

Saw this on eBay and thought WTF, a quick google came up nothing else like it - but memories of other bikes - how the world has changed... ...the choppers and other bikes like them !

Costs This post will be a live post in this thread - I'll edit it as I go so we can see the real cost of what this costs to build. £360 for the cabinet, the offer was accepted for that. £ 50 delivery charge. £ 30 marquee holder. £ 50 marquee holder V2. £ 25 hopper anc coin mech - second hand from kind member on here. £20 LED kit from Amazon. £10 Misc bolts and brackets. £40 maequee holder V3. £40 IPAC Controller. £30 Misc Amazon items such as USB cables and audio leads. Total £ 655

Yes it really is incredible what @Wizard has done here.

Yeah - the buttons I am thinking of based on what you say about the start button. From left to right in terms of function not key strokes as you can shift the buttons to have duel functions as I did on my original cabinet. 1. Shift 2. Exit Layout Shutdown Machine 3. Full Screen Full Screen Max 4. Mute Insert £1 ( if the coin mech and note acceptors are not wired up ) 5. Up Volume Up 6. Down Volume Down 7. Start Enter These cabinets are also likely to appear on eBay again and not be too hard to get so I think this time around as others may want to do it, like this... ...I will 100% docuement the build from end to end.

Over two years ago I started a journey building a cabinet, this is the thread - this is the journey and pretty much how it ended... ...there was never going to be another cabinet - this was it - done and finished. Today I was looking at eBay, you know the site like Hot UK Deals where you don't want anything and then you end up buying stuff that you never knew you needed. I then saw this... Sweet mother of god, this would be ideal to turn into an MFME cabinet - shit - it almost was one already. I had some experience of this kit following a touch screen conversion I did of something else they made... ...so being the insane, mad person I am - I made an offer for it and they accepted. The plan this time around for the cabinet is much easier - firstly I will get MFME up and running on a PC inside of it. The touchscreen will be used soley for the games - hell - at the end of the day we have so may great DX's now and they've all got to buttons on the screen you are simply enhancing the games within the cabinet. The buttons will be replaced from left to right at present with navigation and control buttons for the cabinet not sure what or how yet but easy operation for selecting games and volume control as well as shuting down system. One will be a shift button to give the rest of the buttons dual functions. When that is all done and fully working I will then see if it's possible to use the coin mech that is already present and the hopper - at the end of the day this setup is pretty much fit for swapping the PC and doing a few connections and done. For the top bezzle I'll get some custom artwork done saying MFME and then a guide to the extended buttons on the cabinet. It'll look something like this. The most expensive part is going to likely be the bezel work that needs to be done and then getting that professionally printed and enscased in a custom size acrylic. That will then be fixed in the area below marked in red. This is how I would hope a bezel would end up - imagine the rectangle dimensions with the break out area for the keys and legneds - you get the idea ! Going to be a couple of weeks before the cabinet arrives but this is going to work well ( I hope )...

Just keep the images TBH and as the years roll they can be added. The new stuff will always be easier to find and people will always be storing.

Before anyone kicks off at me for this - remember - we are in a different world now. We know about FME so resources and roms that we collect will still be collected further done the line. I don't mind pictures in the Gallery of newer stuff, that is just general fruit machine - but public resourse gathering and pushing it on this site when I have already asked for nothing later then (C) 2016 is just really taking the piss and I want to respect vendors and not take the piss out of them here.

Again another note after what has happened today - please be sensitive to vendors. I do not like taking action as per what I had to do on one thread - but this site comes first and I expect everybody to follow the three year rule here that I have asked. It makes sense and it is the right thing to do. Thank you for your support.

Just checked my stuff - have nothing that I can help you woth on this one - sorry.

READ THE EDITED TOP POST AND STOP THIS CONTANT SPAM WITH PICTURES IN THIS AND THAT IN EVERY SINGLE THREAD.

Ah no - sorry - I thought you wanted a Hi De Hi layout that was all !

I have this, it's very old and not very good in terms of my work here - but I can upload it when I get back after tea if you want ?

So obviously I use Reg, this came from a pseudonym that I used in years gone by. However after sitting here dying in an airport after being ill all weekend and now, I am tempted to change it too nearly dead. Traveling when ill is awful.

Ah very nice. I have one of these beasts. This I recall is one of the more expensive Spectrums to get ?

My scores were... 9/50 Surprised there was so many I had done TBH. Sabre Wulf - did this one. Atic Atac - did it. The Hobbit - did a speed run of it once in under 11 minutes years before the internet. Saboteur - always easy. Ant Attack - first game I ever finished ! Bruce Lee - this was another very easy game. Ghostbusters - sure I did this one / maybe on the CBM64 tho ? Herberts Dummy Run - yes ! Pyjaramma - another one off this list.

Hey I remember this one... ...I always liked this for some reason - was way too young to have should like but - but I did !