Building a 4 Player Arcade Machine.

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Moved into music room. Will start wrap process tomorrow. I'm sick atm with cold or flu.. so it may take  a few days.

[Paul2]

suck that you got a cold.  get well gracefully.

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Update,

Got pretty sick, was out of action for a good 1.5 weeks.

Done the wraps on the sides, T-Molded one side but didn't have quite enough for other side.  Got more T-mold on order which should come monday.

A few pics of the wraps done.   Once i can do the t-molding, the real fun starts!!!!

[Titan]

Lookin' good!

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Yo yo yo, update time..  So i've finished the main cab vinyl wrapping, fans, grills, mounting power supplies, channels for RGB leds,

PC is mounted on rails too, so i can pull it out to do maintenance.  I also 3D printed out a lot of stuff, placards, mounts for power supplies etc.

I've just finished 3D printing out a mount for the monitor. Which i'll install tomorrow.  I've also got a Perspex top for the control panel routed and ready to go.

Things i've got left to do.

• Make doors for front, and 2 for the rear and vinyl wrap them.
• Mount the control panel and control panel box. (have to wrap some panels for the box and install hinges)
• Mount the rear power plug port (for IEC plug)
• Install RGB lights and front RGB light display in front door.
• Install 28inch LCD Marquee.
• Install
  
• Wire the speakers, sub woofer
• Install the roms, gui etc

Then after i've mounted all this i have to mount the power supply for all the buttons (leds), trackball, Joysticks, 2x ultimate I/O interfaces for the controls.
Finally install a Tempered Glass sheet for the front of the arcade and mark out the vinyl to cover the areas around the monitor on it.

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more pics.

Also, theres one pic the site just won't let me upload. No matter what i do, change size, format etc. I keep getting this error.


"Your attachment has failed security checks and cannot be uploaded. Please consult the forum administrator."

[Paul2]

cool!  wow, it looks more complicated than i thought.  you are so smart to build the arcade by yourself.  awesome.

[Titan]

"Your attachment has failed security checks and cannot be uploaded. Please consult the forum administrator."

Well stop trying to upload dick pics!

The attachment system with this forum software is hit or miss. I've gotten that error too myself. And I'm the administrator! I should do what I want lol. I just wait and try again and it'll let me pass usually. I think one time I just changed the name.

The arcade is coming along nicely! How much research did you do to figure all this out?

EDIT: Just checked the settings for attachments. I have the attachment security settings not really set. Just size limits. It's probably just a glitch.

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Not much research at all. Only research has been on the Ultimate I/O controller, buttons, sticks etc. 

Finding places to precut things has been hard. Getting the perspex top for the control panel was a pain. Took 4 places before I found one that would do it.

Plans for the arcade woodwork I came across by accident. I heavily modified it to suit my needs.

The rest is just knowledge built up over years of experience. Building electrical switch boards for 10 years, electronics experience etc. Growing up with PCs.


Monitor has been mounted.

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Latest update,

Mounted Control Box and am working on Control Panel now.

Will hopefully have it mounted tomorrow or day after.

Had to make a plug and move the hole for the Track ball, was to low and was hitting the joysticks and buttons.
Current List.

• Make doors for front, and 2 for the rear and vinyl wrap them.
  Mount the control panel Box
  Mount control panel. (have to wrap some panels for the box and install hinges)
  Mount the rear power plug port (for IEC plug)
  Install RGB lights and front RGB light display in front door.
  Install 28inch LCD Marquee.
  Wire the speakers, sub woofer
  Install the roms, gui etc
  Mount Power Supply for buttons
  Mount Joysticks, Buttons, Trackball
  Mount Ultimate I/O mounts and PCBs
  Install Tempered Glass
  

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Little update, control panel top is done.

Waiting on some wires to do the wiring for it..  Will upload pics of that when its done.

[Titan]

I'm loving seeing how this is coming together! Have you thought about making custom arcades as a side business or something?

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Nar haven't thought about doing it as a business.. wouldn't be viable. The total cost would be up in the realms of 5k+ $AUD. That's not including time.

I'll do a breakdown of costs when I'm done but I'm pretty sure people won't be wanting to spend that much on a arcade.

[Titan]

Ah. Didn't realize it was that much. But definitely curious about the cost breakdown for sure.