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Neat

Care to post some videos of it in action

>Have any anons ever put in the time, effort, and money to build their own arcade cab?

I have -69 int, cool thing you got there anyway

>>15062726

Looks comfy.

Do the leds have that "adaptative color" tech or are they static?

>>15063021

For fun and because I (have) wanted to. Not quite apples and oranges, but there's a difference between using a controller or a fightstick that sits in your lap compared to standing in front of a control panel to play. Getting to grow up in the 80s and 90s makes me miss arcades. Nearest ones are more than 3 hours away.

>>15062917

I can try to get a video or two when I get home later.

>>15062726

This thing needs way more room to breathe, or liquid cooling the gpu at least

>>15063025

Dude it's just 1 inch(half inch?) wood cut to shape, and holes for the buttons, materials not hard to work with.

>>15063048

Just your standard 5050 smd rgbw strips plugged into pins on the motherboard. There are some serviceable controls provided by Gigabyte for messing with the LEDs (static, pulse, audio, chroma, PC status), but I think its aimed more at the lights on the mobo itself with LED strips just being a small afterthought/consequence.

Couldn't you have run this off of something smaller and cheaper? I've never emulated a 3D arcade game before, how intensive do they get?

>>15062726

I'm not crazy about the lights but the graph background is stylish. A little more consideration could be given to player 3 and 4's necks lol

>>15063189

>This thing needs way more room to breathe, or liquid cooling the gpu at least

Nah, it has plenty of breathing room along with a 200mm fan in the back though, right now it's just a large hole until I mount and wire up the fan. Water cooling would be very excessive, to be honest, and needlessly increase the cost.

Also, 3/4" MDF is what I used. It wasn't hard so much as it took a lot of time planning and designing. Measuring, cutting, and assembly was pretty quick: about 2 weeks of working on it during evenings after work and on weekends provided good weather (had to do most of the cutting outside).

>>15062726

It's nice shit anon. I've wanted to do the same for awhile. Also why stop at mame and normal pc games? Should get some of those cracked jap arcade games off /1cc/ that're modified to run on PC. Also other shit like a CPS2, sega model 2 and 3 emulators, etc. Go all out.

>>15063383

I really do like the background and the lights are what actually brings that out so on second thought they're okay with me.

>>15063311

Mame already supports those. Maybe not 100% perfectly or accurately, but adequate enough. What would be nice is Naomi support. I know there's Demul, and I've looked into it a little, but don't feel like bothering. Just want MvC2 and Soul Calibur 2 I know I could easily set up dolphin and pcsx2 for bothand probably will in the next day or two.**** Arcade version of Soul Calibur 2 had Conquest Mode that I thought was cool when I got to play it.

>>15063418

Thanks. Had a lot of fun for my first time building one. Learned a lot and plan on making another so I can improve my build quality, just need time to get the money for it. Was a little over $2000 for all the materials, hardware, tools I didn't have, mechanical parts, and the PC hardware.

I wanna commission one, but it seems like a fuck ton of work. Additionally I would need a CRT.

>>15062726

>all of them are bat sticks

almost good, I do have an arcade stick but to go as far to build an arcade cab I would have to think about it deeply.

Custom cabinets are a waste of time, just buy a viewlix.

Protip: if you are building an arcade cabinet and aren't using a CRT, then you should be using a FreeSync monitor (or GSync if you like giving Nvidia more money), because it allows the screen to match the native oddball refresh rates that various arcade games decided to run at.

You can skip to 1:16 in the embed to see what I mean. Fixes issues with scrolling stutter, improperly flickering images, etc.

>>15064349

It's a personal preference. Not like I can't go from IL to Seimitsu or Sanwa.

>>15064286

>I wanna commission one, but it seems like a fuck ton of work. Additionally I would need a CRT.

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It was a fair bit of work, but I enjoyed it which, in a way, cancels it out.

>>15064678

That would work if modern TVs supported such a thing.

>>15064610

>Custom cabinets are a waste of time, just buy a viewlix.

>waste of time

Just like shitposting. :^)

It was cheaper and far more rewarding building it myself.

>>15063126

>fightstick that sits in your lap compared to standing in front of a control panel to play

Why not just set the fightstick on high table? At worst you would have to put books or some wood underneath it if you can't find one that is tall enough for you.

How much did it cost to make the table? Not the pc inside tho. I'm thinking of making one that can connect to my tower, or a raspi alternative if I can.

>>15064852

Its, honestly, not what I wanted to do. Would have been far cheaper to buy 4 of them, sure, but this is what I wanted. It's kinda like cooking your own meals versus buying something ready-to-go from the store. The former is going to be better for you in the long run, even if it takes time and (potentially) costs more having to buy healty ingredients. All in all, to each their own.

>>15065087

That's why I said an alternative. They are just the well known name. Thanks for the break down of prices

I've been tempted to cut my teeth with a mini Raspberrypi3 bartop cab, but even that's too intimidating for me.

>>15064982

>The former is going to be better for you in the long run

That's not even true though. You would actually be better off just having a monstrous rig and a large TV where you and your friends can sit/stand how they like with higher performance and easier maintenance.

>>15063383

>He has Killer Instinct

I like it

Maybe I'll build a fight stick and work my way op. Thanks Op.

>>15062726

sick setup. Is it a giant MAME emulator or does it run something else?

I've been kinda curious. OP do you have any past skill in doing a pinball cabinet? I've made a personal joystick but I've been kinda curious in making an arcade cabinet

Also, pay no mind to the 3 different IDs. Had been phoneposting up until I posted the webm.

>>15065170

I can appreciate wanting to have the most comfortable setup for gaming with your buddies, but unless you also dislike standup cabs I can't imagine how you could call someone your friend if they can't be bothered to play a cab you made/procured. Personally I would go one step further and make sure the cab has a proper arcade monitor as well, but that's all hypothetical.

>>15065674

I saw a trick where you can back out a stripped screw by putting a rubber band between the screw and screwdriver, results vary though. Worst case scenario you may be able to drill them out and fill the resulting holes with some toothpicks and glue before retrying. You used a proper sized bit for the screw, didn't you?

>>15064845

>That would work if modern TVs supported such a thing.

Major monitor manufacturers are starting to put out full size TVs with high refresh rates and Free/GSync.

>>15062726

Looks beautiful op, i'd like to make one as well.