Mame Arcade Project

I've been thinking about building a MAME Arcade cabinet for about a year now and after recently looking at some blogs and websites dedicated to do it yourself cabinets, I thought I'd give it a try!

I'm using the plans available at http://users.adelphia.net/~seanhat/arcade/ as I like the look and style of the cabinet.

I started by researching control panels as I knew I didn't want to build one from scratch. I found a company called X-Arcade that offers a nice pre build control panel that supports PC, Xbox and PS2 connections. I decided to get the two player panel as this will typically be used in groups. I grabbed an old PC from my basement and configured it with Mame, and Meedio as the front end and tested everything to make certain it worked!

Here is a picture of the X-Arcade control panel:



Next up buy three 4x8 3/4 inch sheets of MDF particle board...