My MAME Arcade Cabinet is a prefab from MAMEROOM. It was their first model, and I wish I would have waited. They now provide routed edges for t-molded, and melamine coated panels.

I hand routed and put t-molding on the control panel. I messed it up a couple times before I got it right, so I never did it on the rest of the cabinet. I put laminate on the top of the control panel.

MAMEROOM now also provides custom panel creation. I will definitely do this next time.

I painted the main cabinet black instead of laminating it. It came out pretty nice. Not quite as good as laminate, but certainly acceptable.

I used standard PC speakers that I mounted into the top, and placed the volume control sticking out of the side (small nub on right side slightly behind the control panel), and placed the subwoofer behind the cabinet.

I still haven't painted all of the control panel MDF, as you can see, but I'll get around to it one of these days.

This is actually the second control panel I built. I didn't like the layout of the first one. I tried to keep the controls relatively simple. Only 2 players, a spinner, and a center track ball. I bought all the controls from Suzo-Happ.

I later added the flight stick, but wish I hadn't. The darn thing takes up so much space and isn't used by many games anyway. But I wanted to play Afterburner.

I added an XBox to USB adaptor on the side of the control panel by removing parts from an old XBox, and rewiring it. I installed XBCD to use the standard controllers. This was a great addition. I installed Project64 and a bunch of N64 roms. (WaveRace never gets old), and the X-Box controller works great.

I also installed 2 USB light guns from ACT LABS. These work OK, but not great. Accuracy is a problem. Both my guns shoot a bit high and to the right. I've tried everything, but can't seem to get it right. if you have any ideas let me know. I think the problem might be with the monitor. I've tried every refresh rate and setting I can find, but nothing makes it better.

I used a large format color plotter from my work to print the artwork behind the main glass. It came out pretty good. I think the image I chose needs work though.

I really want a larger display. I've been thinking about vertically mounting an LCD. This would make the light guns unusable, but then it would give me another project to work on. Maybe using a Wii controller. ;)

I currently have MAME, Daphne, Future Pinball, Project64,Stella, Nebula, and Kawaks installed.

A great resource for MAME stuff is at Pleasuredome.

I use Maximus Arcade as the front-end. It works well, the only thing I would like is the ability to define my own emulators. It supports just about everything known to man, but I am a hacker by nature, and always want more. In particular it doesn't support the Model2 Emulator from Nebula directly.

My gameroom and play room. I spend too much time in here.