davep180

All the best to your mum. Look forward to any updates on the build when you get back to it.

Hopper looks good matey.

The cabinet building section has tons of information. I recommend @WibbleWobble or @cja272 build thread as a start. Parallel hoppers are easiest to set up. It's all in there somewhere, including your coin mech question. I know it's daunting, but honestly, read through as many as you can. If I can do it, then anyone can.

Well done @rajgreat job

Oh god. I forgot about all that lol. The pc in the cab had loads of 4 pin molex connectors which made the 12v part of the build a doddle. Newer ones don’t have those I believe (I might be wrong on that) and then an external power supply is needed. Then the dreaded grounding issue rears its ugly head again! I can’t upgrade the pc, it only had a few options for gfx cards and I think its ram is at its capacity. (It was an old business machine, so @Ze Frogyou are right about them being cheap. The pc before upgrades was about £60 I think. According to Microsoft it’s too crap to upgrade to win10.

My old win 7 pc with real basic gfx card runs mfme, old quiz machine games and basic mame stuff ok, but it will struggle to do anything later emulation wise. Win 10 is a minimum for latest mfme, so I guess any basic pc that’ll run that, should run mfme? Ideally any new (used) pc that I buy will be around £250 max! I don’t expect a massive upgrade for that. Any suggestions?

Everything is on a budget unfortunately. Hopefully I can upgrade my main pc and then put that into the cabinet.

Added a topper, used @Road Hog Madidea and put a police style beacon on top of that and a proper payout tray. Seriously thinking of putting a newer pc in, to take advantage of the great releases for v20. My machine is on win 7 for quizzes mainly, but I don’t play them much nowadays.