Building A Mame Cabinet

Build one or buy one.

Building a mame cabinet.

While browsing the web one day i found some examples. I have basically always wanted to do one even before mame was around. Well after a few months of thinking of building a mame cabinet i m on my way. Although exactly what your.

There are two ways to own your own mame arcade cabinet. With that in mind picking what style of cabinet you want to build for your mame machine is one of the toughest and most important decisions you ll have to make. Hey chris i min the process of building my own cabinet similar to what todd did. The construction pictures made everything look straightforward and easy.

But it was still quite expensive and i wouldn t have had the same satisfaction that i know i m going to get after building my own cabinet. Diy home arcade machine. I saw a mame cabinet on ebay a few months and i very nearly bought it. Doc s cabinet how to build a cabinet.

This is a semi full tutorial that will break down each piece of building a cabinet. When i was a kid i had the great idea of putting an nes in a cabinet and using the nes advantage a. I could have saved myself a lot of time and effort there instead of attempting to build one myself. If your running windows you ll want to use mame32 which gives a nice gui around the mame engine.

I had known about mame for some time but never considered actually building one. For the lazy in all of us the easiest way is to just go to ebay and buy a pre assembled mame machine for around 2 300. How to build an arcade cabinet for gaming and storage. The mame multiple arcade machine emulator software is probably the best known emulator in the world and plays the majority of your classic arcade games.

Building the cabinet was a bit of an impulse. Using mame building a mame cabinet. I thought i would post my progress and such.