Plans For Building A Mame Cabinet

Well after a few months of thinking of building a mame cabinet i m on my way.

Plans for building a mame cabinet. The plan for an lcd mame cabinet finished mame cabinet when i finally committed to building my own mame cabinet so i could play classic arcade games i decided i wanted to use an lcd monitor instead of a crt arcade monitor. Using mame building a mame cabinet. Any time i start a new project i always love going out and doing research. Although exactly what your.

I include a great many photos of the construction process to assist even a complete novice builder. Also below is a pdf file that will help y. There are two ways to own your own mame arcade cabinet. I could have saved myself a lot of time and effort there instead of attempting to build one myself.

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. This is a semi full tutorial that will break down each piece of building a cabinet. I hope this helps you with your goal of building your own mame cabinet. I spent hundreds of hours looking at all of the websites absorbing all the information i could and considering a.

The plans for the cabinet were loosely based upon lusid s work but with modifications to the dimensions and control panel. As we weren t using the same wood thickness as was mentioned in the plan it really just served as a guide to ensure that the machine looked correct once assembled. 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. A small hand miter saw was needed to do the molding.

I decided on a 25 1 2 width based loosely on the measurements from build a mame cabinet in 24 hours. Needless to say i m pretty happy with the way it turned out. Build one or buy one. I saw a mame cabinet on ebay a few months and i very nearly bought it.

This document was created to provide individuals with an easy to print paper copy to work from. A huge win was discovering the build your own arcade controls website dedicated to people who had already built mame cabinets and resources with how to find anything you need to make your own cabinet. The cabinet was completed in the garage using only a circular saw a 15 jigsaw from kmart a 15 hand sander and a drill.