Anyone built an arcade cabinet?

I’m thinking of building a MAME cabinet. Constructing the cabinet will be the easy bit. Plus I can use the laser cutter at work and the vinyl printer for some nice side graphics, the glass cutter for a nice screen cover. As a product designer the cab will be the fun part. My issue would be the software side, there’s loads of info online but was just wandering if anyone’s tackled a project like this?

All in I only really need the joysticks, buttons and control boards as I have everything else.

The software side is easy. If it’s a windows system them use Mame 32.

The joysticks and buttons are pretty expensive mind.

Cheers, recon the stick and buttons will be about £75.

Picade, running a raspberry Pi, with retrocade. We’re just playing mega drive and snes games.

I had an idea for one but never got round to building it:

It’s on my list of things to do after I move house.

Picade – awesome.
Was that a prefab case??

Always thought I wanted an upright cabinet, but there was a 3-sided cocktail cabinet one in a holiday cottage we stayed in which changed my mind. Good compromise that lets you play portrait or landscape stuff as intended, and have somewhere to put your beer! Bit more house-friendly too, less imposing.

eg. http://www.arcadeworlduk.com/products/Retro-Cocktail-3-Sided-Arcade-Flat-Pack-Kit.html

That place is meant to be good for joysticks and buttons and the like too.

by the gods i would love these

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I like cocktail cabinets but I would prefer an upright… I think

The picade came in kit form. All you’re missing is the raspberry Pi.

Does the picade come with games pre-loaded?

No, and it’s a right faff on if you don’t know what you’re doing. Like me.

Where did you buy the picade kit paulosoxo?

It was a kick starter project. The guys from Pimironi are responsible for it. Not overly impressed with their aftersales mind.

http://shop.pimoroni.com

The IT guy at work will do the software and load games onto it for me for a few beers and if I do him a logo for something. I have been asking about and starting to sway towards a cocktail cabinet, although a stand up with a bottle opener on the side and a fridge in the bottom has appeal.

Paulosoxo that’s incredible! I need one in my life!

How much was it all in? Are the games run via an emulator?

Difficulties aside how does it play?

MAME. It’ll play like the originals, because they are.

In all my discussions with this my fiancée has overheard some of my retro games are worth a fair bit. Oh dear. They can’t be sold…

Kid Cragg. I really cant rember how much it was. It was that long since I bought it. I think it was two years in the making!

It plays well. My boys, seven and four, love Super Mario World