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, 2024 Report Share Posted February 24, 2024 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 10 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fruity Nut Posted February 25, 2024 Report Share Posted February 25, 2024 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, 2024 Author Report Share Posted April 30, 2024 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, 2024 Report Share Posted April 30, 2024 (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, 2024 by uptown47 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
slotsmagic Posted April 30, 2024 Report Share Posted April 30, 2024 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 Attempting to quit gambling since January 1st 2025. Lapse on Wednesday 12th November 2025 Lapse on Tuesday 13th January 2026 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
andrew96 Posted May 1, 2024 Report Share Posted May 1, 2024 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, 2024 Report Share Posted May 2, 2024 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...
Road Hog Mad Posted May 3, 2024 Report Share Posted May 3, 2024 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
aland888 Posted December 12, 2024 Report Share Posted December 12, 2024 These are all great—-amazing what can be done and everyone’s different ideas ….and using what’s available ——I’m definitely going to get the finger out and build something —-especially like no1 storeys set up —o want to make something countertop and compact with a working payout system just for my own money box use —-great information and pictures folks 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Holybuhjeezus Posted March 12 Report Share Posted March 12 I was inspired a few years ago by another member who got MFME running on their virtual pinball cabinet. I finally got around to finishing a removable MFME controller for my vpin cab. Fun little project, and I hope to build a complete fruit machine cabinet with coin mech and hopper someday. Thanks to the creators and community that make this all possible!! Also, here's a little gameplay: 3 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Coskey Fruits Posted March 18 Report Share Posted March 18 On 15/02/2022 at 02:13, Mojo said: I built this cab in lockdown with a 42 inch monitor, Thankyou to everyone for all your hard work. If ever you are wanting to sell please, I am looking for one. Particularly that will run 2 monitors via hdmi extended desktop so I can mount another large landscape monitor on the top of the machine and do extended desktop for top boxes, party time etc. Was wondering, if most of these payout in 10p and £1, what happens if you play token machines and win £4.80 in tokens etc....? Would it just give it out in cash 4 X £1 and 8 x 10p? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Coskey Fruits Posted March 18 Report Share Posted March 18 On 03/05/2024 at 14:11, Road Hog Mad said: Selling? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
uptown47 Posted March 19 Report Share Posted March 19 10 hours ago, Coskey Fruits said: If ever you are wanting to sell please, I am looking for one. Particularly that will run 2 monitors via hdmi extended desktop so I can mount another large landscape monitor on the top of the machine and do extended desktop for top boxes, party time etc. Was wondering, if most of these payout in 10p and £1, what happens if you play token machines and win £4.80 in tokens etc....? Would it just give it out in cash 4 X £1 and 8 x 10p? Not sure others machines but, for the one I built, I wrote a small accompanying bit of software that tracks the payout value in MFME and just pays out whatever it counts via two hoppers (£1 and 10p) - although it accepts payments from everything from 5p, 10p, 20p, 50p, £1 - so, you are right, for £4.80 in tokens or money it would just chunk out 4 x £1 and 8 x 10p but others might have added other functionality. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Road Hog Mad Posted March 19 Report Share Posted March 19 13 hours ago, Coskey Fruits said: Selling? I actually rebuilt this one in to this... and have recently been offered £900 for it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Coskey Fruits Posted March 19 Report Share Posted March 19 4 hours ago, uptown47 said: Not sure others machines but, for the one I built, I wrote a small accompanying bit of software that tracks the payout value in MFME and just pays out whatever it counts via two hoppers (£1 and 10p) - although it accepts payments from everything from 5p, 10p, 20p, 50p, £1 - so, you are right, for £4.80 in tokens or money it would just chunk out 4 x £1 and 8 x 10p but others might have added other functionality. Thank you for your insight and answer. Great that you are able to program. I think the one that @VenumXdid is stunning. Very talented people you all are 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
uptown47 Posted March 19 Report Share Posted March 19 4 minutes ago, Coskey Fruits said: Thank you for your insight and answer. Great that you are able to program. I think the one that @VenumXdid is stunning. Very talented people you all are I think anyone can program nowadays with the advent of ChatGPT etc. Just tell it what you're looking for and it will be able to help. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
craig tomkinson Posted March 22 Report Share Posted March 22 2 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
VenumX Posted April 8 Report Share Posted April 8 Guess i'll add my cabinet to the list as well! (against thanks for all the support! ) 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
uptown47 Posted April 8 Report Share Posted April 8 40 minutes ago, VenumX said: Guess i'll add my cabinet to the list as well! (against thanks for all the support! ) Great work!! I love the artwork and the bottom LEDs. Looks really smart 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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