WonkySausage Posted February 18, 2023 Report Share Posted February 18, 2023 (edited) 1 hour ago, davep180 said: Thought I'd follow up the photos of the cab with a video. MFME starts at 1m27s for those who can't wait. A fair bit is mute, probably not enough! Hope you like it. love it Gonna have to have a gander at this thread a bit more later, interested to see how and what people have done Edited February 18, 2023 by WonkySausage Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fruity Nut Posted February 24 Report Share Posted February 24 So finally finished my small bartop icade conversion. The cabinet lent itself perfectly for the job although was certainly tough trying to squeeze everything in! So I bought off Ebay an ION Icade off eBay for £18, a HP 15" 4:3 touchscreen monitor for £12 and a Dell micro PC for £40. I ordered an Ipac, Pac drive and a load of buttons from Arcade World along with a Barcrest button and 5v leds off eBay. I had to cut the top pieces of the side panels off the icade to accommodate the monitor which I stripped out of it's casing. I wanted the sound to be pretty good as that's the best part for me, the nostalgic machine sounds and music so I fixed a 2.1 edifier PC speaker system to it. The sub on the top and the satellite speakers in the back as didn't want them sticking out. I simply used sticky back metal effect plastic on the sides. I replaced the control panel for a nice bit of wood. I used 10 main buttons, an exit button on the left side and a coin one on the right as well as 2 small buttons I use for volume under the fake coin slot which I wired to a USB on the PC. I am very pleased with the way it turned out 8 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fruity Nut Posted February 25 Report Share Posted February 25 Took a gambling awareness sticker off my old reel king machine today. Cut it up and slapped it on my little cab to finish it off nicely 6 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Reg Posted April 30 Author Report Share Posted April 30 On 25/02/2024 at 19:07, Fruity Nut said: Took a gambling awareness sticker off my old reel king machine today. Cut it up and slapped it on my little cab to finish it off nicely Very impressive !!! I have one of these in the loft - although I don't need to make another cabinet as I have one - I really love what you have done here. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
uptown47 Posted April 30 Report Share Posted April 30 (edited) On 24/02/2024 at 14:42, Fruity Nut said: So finally finished my small bartop icade conversion. The cabinet lent itself perfectly for the job although was certainly tough trying to squeeze everything in! So I bought off Ebay an ION Icade off eBay for £18, a HP 15" 4:3 touchscreen monitor for £12 and a Dell micro PC for £40. I ordered an Ipac, Pac drive and a load of buttons from Arcade World along with a Barcrest button and 5v leds off eBay. I had to cut the top pieces of the side panels off the icade to accommodate the monitor which I stripped out of it's casing. I wanted the sound to be pretty good as that's the best part for me, the nostalgic machine sounds and music so I fixed a 2.1 edifier PC speaker system to it. The sub on the top and the satellite speakers in the back as didn't want them sticking out. I simply used sticky back metal effect plastic on the sides. I replaced the control panel for a nice bit of wood. I used 10 main buttons, an exit button on the left side and a coin one on the right as well as 2 small buttons I use for volume under the fake coin slot which I wired to a USB on the PC. I am very pleased with the way it turned out What a brilliant job !!! Definitely looks tight in that control panel so I bet that was fun squeezing everything in!! You've made a cracking job of it all though and I completely agree with you about the sound being really important (second only to the smell of an old arcade). Great work Edited April 30 by uptown47 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
slotsmagic Posted April 30 Report Share Posted April 30 Looks great! I was thinking of stripping out my bartop Raspberry Pi 4 based arcade cab I made a few years back, removing the marquee section and putting in a portrait mode screen to make a compact little cabinet for the bedroom. Although coin in and out would be very difficult in the cabinet (could be mounted externally?), it would be nice to have a compact little MFME machine to go with my full size cabinets Currently owned digitals : T7 Encore, T7 Original, Astra iPub and Storm Street Casino. MFME cabinets : Genesis cab DIY by No1Stoney, Interplay conversion and Vegas Strip conversion (both are works in progress!) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
andrew96 Posted May 1 Report Share Posted May 1 Perhaps the addition of a piece of old dried up beer stained carpet under it for that 'extra' authenticity 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Boulderdash Posted May 2 Report Share Posted May 2 On 30/04/2024 at 10:03, slotsmagic said: Looks great! I was thinking of stripping out my bartop Raspberry Pi 4 based arcade cab I made a few years back, removing the marquee section and putting in a portrait mode screen to make a compact little cabinet for the bedroom. Although coin in and out would be very difficult in the cabinet (could be mounted externally?), it would be nice to have a compact little MFME machine to go with my full size cabinets A compact cabinet for the bedroom. Marvelous 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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