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4-Player Pedestal Arcade Cabinet for MAME

by severdhed

This will show you how I constructed my 4 player MAME pedestal cabinet. There are a lot of things you may want to customize to your liking. I will show you how i made mine, you can feel free to tweak it to your liking. This houses a standard windows PC to run the MAME arcade emulator, and outputs to a 42" LCD TV.

Step 1: Items You Will Need:

Supplies:

3/4" MDF or plywood ( i used 6 pre-cut 2ftx4ft sheets of MDF, it is a little more expensive, but easier to transport and work with) T-Molding: 30ft 30" piano hinge small chain or rope ( to support lid when open, 2 ft should be plenty) screw in leg levelers

4-Player Pedestal Arcade Cabinet for MAME: Page 1 small carriage bolts for mounting (size can vary, based on which joysticks you use) t-nuts of various sizes (4 for mouting legs, 4 smaller ones for each ) Wire, two colors, at least 50 ft (i think i used 18guage) crimp-on female wire disconnects ( i used about 100 of them) zip ties (optional, but great for cable management) wood screws wood glue paint 1/8" plexiglass slightly larger than the surface of the control panel (my panel is 18" x 46") wood screws of various sizes. one 8ft 2x4 board about 20ft total of 1x2 pine board about 10 feet of 1x4 pine board ( you could also use MDF, if you dont' mind the cutting)

TOOLS:

circular saw jig saw Router with straight bit, v-groove bit, flush trim bit, and 1/16" slot cutter drill with 1 1/8" Forstner bit, various small drill bits for bolt holes. 3" hole saw various clamps screw driver measuring tape straight edge square pencils/marker ratcheting wire crimpers (don't bother with the non ratcheting kind, you will be doing a lot of crimping, spend the $15 on a ratcheting crimper from harbor freight, your hands will thank you) wire strippers

OTHER:

4 arcade joysticks ( I used Ultimarc J-Stiks/Sanwa JLWs) 3" Arcade with USB interface ( i used an Electric Ice-T Deluxe from groovygamegear.com) 31 - arcade pushbuttons (i used HAPP concave pushbuttons) USB Control interface ( I used an iPac 4 from Ultimarc) trackball mounting plate PC for emulation (PC specs depend on what games you wish to use. a 3ghz pentium 4 for 4gb of ram should be plenty for , you may need more if you choose to add PC games or other 4-Player Pedestal Arcade Cabinet for MAME: Page 2 emulators) display ( i used a 42" vizio 1080p TV)

Step 2: Plan Out Your Cabinet

I designed this cabinet build around simplicity. I didn't be able to play. I personally wanted a 3" trackball for want to try to haul full sheets of MDF in my minivan centipede and millipede, as well as bowling/golf by myself, so I used pre-cut 2ft x 4ft pieces of MDF games. If you are just using MAME, you only need a for the construction. This means that no panel is max of 4 buttons per player for 4 player games, but larger than 2ft x 4ft. also, this prevented me from some of the 1 and 2 player games need more (mostly having to cut a bunch of long straight cuts. the front, fighting games) i opted for 4 buttons for players 3 and back and both sides are 24" wide, so there was very 4, and 7 buttons for players 1 and 2. (player 3 and 4 little cutting involved. I started off using Google are off to the sides because they aren't used as SketchUp to design the unit, then tweaked it until it much, leaving players 1 and 2 in the center of the looked right. I was going for simple. I've included a panel. Most fighting games only use 6 buttons, but diagram with the dimensions of the boars you will the 7th button comes in handy. This way i have 4 need to make it like mine. buttons on the top row to simulate the layout. I also have a few none mame games that i You also need to plan out what type of controls you play on here through , including wish to have, and how many buttons per player. This 9, Injustice, and 4. can vary based on which types of games you want to

Step 3: Build the 2x4 Base

Start by building a rectangular base for the cabinet out of 2x4s. Tt needs to be 24" wide x 21.5" deep. I used wood glue and some screws to hold it together.

4-Player Pedestal Arcade Cabinet for MAME: Page 3 Step 4: Cut Out the First Side

Draw out the shape of your first side onto one of the 2ftx4ft sheets of MDF. Once you are happy with it, cut it out using your circular saw.

Step 5: Use First Side As a Template for the Second Side.

Take your first side that you cut out, clamp it to an other sheet of MDF, then use the router with a flush trim bit to cut out the second side, this way they will be identical.

4-Player Pedestal Arcade Cabinet for MAME: Page 4 Step 6: Attach 1x2 Pine Braces to Sides cut some 1x2 pine boards into strips and screw/glue the screws aren't too long, or they will break through them to the sides for bracing. they should be flush the sides. with the top edge, and set back 1.25" from the front and back edges. also stop about 4" from the bottom Do this for both sides, making sure you flip one so to allow room for the base you built earlier. I attached that these strips end up on the inside of the cabinet. these with short wood screws and glue. (make sure

4-Player Pedestal Arcade Cabinet for MAME: Page 5 Step 7: Cut the T-Molding Slot on the Side Panels.

First you will want to round over both of the bottom corners of your side boards to create a smooth transition for your molding, i used a jigsaw.

Before assembling the cabinet, now would be a good time to cut the slots for the T molding. Use your router with a 1/16" slot cutter bit for this, make sure it is centered in the MDF. I cut the slot along the front, bottom and back sides, it is not necessary on the top.

Step 8: Start Assembly build a top brace out of 1x2 boards, 24" wide by 10.5" deep. this will be the brace for the top. once this is done, using wood glue and screws, attach the 2x4 base and the top brace to one of the sides of the cabinet. as you can see, i also mounted some leg levelers to the bottom 2x4 base using t-nuts. These are simply threaded into the t-nuts and can be adjusted to keep the cabinet .

4-Player Pedestal Arcade Cabinet for MAME: Page 6 Step 9: Attach Second Side Panel

Repeat the last step for the other side, attach it with glue and screws. At this point, you can then stand your cabinet upright.

4-Player Pedestal Arcade Cabinet for MAME: Page 7 Step 10: Insert Bottom Panel and Rear Panel.

I cut my bottom panel from some scrap OSB i had 8" high and 24" wide. I used a 3" hole saw to make a lying around. If I had it to do over again, i'd use MDF. hole. This hole is for the power/video cables. This i cut it to fit inside the bottom of the cabinet, and panel is attached only using wood glue. the top edge screwed it to the 2x4 base. I used a 1" spade bit to of this board is beveled to match the angle of the drill some air vents in the bottom. back panel. this way the back door panel can sit flush on top of it. I also cut the bottom rear panel and attached it. It is

Step 11: Cut and Attach Front Panel. cut the front panel to size and attach it using wood glue.

4-Player Pedestal Arcade Cabinet for MAME: Page 8 Step 12: Cut and Attach Rear Panels

The top rear panel is 24 x 5.75" with a hole in the center for a standard PC fan. I used a hole saw for this, i beleive 3" as well. This is glued in place. the back door is cut to size, and just sits in place. It is held in by gravity. I ended up installing a barrel lock at the top to keep it shut.

Step 13: Build the Box for the Control Panel

Using some 1x4 pine boards and the measurements form the included diagram, build a base for the control panel and glue it together. it should be slightly smaller than the top of the panel so that there will be some overhang. The bottom of mine is made from OSB again, but it would be better with MDF. Once the box is complete, screw or bolt it to the base.

4-Player Pedestal Arcade Cabinet for MAME: Page 9 Step 14: Prepare Control Panel Top

Cut out the shape of your control panel, making sure do it right. I used a drill guide i picked up at harbor there is an overhang over your box you just built. freight to keep the drill at a right angle to the wood. Mark the locations of your controls. Take lots of time planning this, you will be stuck with it for a while. I Also, using a 3" hole saw, drill out the hole for your drilled small pilot holes at each button/joystick trackball. location. Then drill out all button holes and joystick holes with a 1 1/8" Forstner bit. Take your time and

4-Player Pedestal Arcade Cabinet for MAME: Page 10 Step 15: Recess Area for Joysticks

I wanted to mount my joysticks from below, with no visible bolts. I used some japanese sticks (Sanwa JLW) because they can easily be switched from 8 way to 4 way mode. (i didn't want the clutter of a dedicated 4 way stick). when undermounted on a 3/4" panel, the sticks were just too short. To fix this, i used the router to recess a pocket for the joysticks to sit in. i routed away about half the thickness of the panel in these areas.

4-Player Pedestal Arcade Cabinet for MAME: Page 11 Step 16: Cut Trackball Hole in Plexiglass

I didn't want any visible bolts in the panel, so i had to by clamping the plexiglass to the panel so that there use a trackball mounting plate. I also didn't want this was a small overlap on all sides. then using the 3" to be visible. It will be flush mounted under the hole as a template, i used the router with a flush trim plexiglass and artwork. Before i could do that, i had to bit to cut the 3" hole in the plexiglass. cut the trackball hole in the plexiglass. This was done

Step 17: Prepare Trackball Mount now that the plexiglass is cut, remove it and set it using your jigsaw, cut out the hole large enough for aside for later. now lining up the hole in the trackball the trackball assembly to fit through. plate with the hole in the wood, trace around the trackball mounting plate...and remove it. then insert the final part of this step is to use the router to create the trackball in the hole, upside down, and trace a recessed area for the plate to fit in, so that it sits around it's footprint....then remove it flush with the surface of the wood. the plate will have 4 bolts welded onto it, mark their locations as well, and drill ou the holes for the bolts.

4-Player Pedestal Arcade Cabinet for MAME: Page 12 Step 18: Prepare Joystick Mounts using the base of your joystick as a template, line it mount them. use a spade bit to create a recess for up with the joystick holes you drilled and mark the each of the t-nuts so that they sit flush with the top of locations of the bolt holes. drill these out with the the panel. appropriate size drill bit. then insert your t-nuts and trackball mounting plate. once again, we dont want any mounting hardware visible through the panel, so we are using T-nuts to

4-Player Pedestal Arcade Cabinet for MAME: Page 13 Step 19: Cut Button Holes in Plexiglass

Place your plexiglass back onto your panel, being (make sure you wear safetly glasses, it will sure to line up the trackball hole and making sure through little pieces everywhere) there is an overlap on all sides, then clamp it in place. i placed my hole saw in the hole just to help keep it once you have your pilot holes, switch to the flush lined up. trim bit in your router. the bearing will roll around the button hole, making perfect holes in your plexiglass. This part requires patience, take your time so you you can insert a few pushbuttons in the holes to help don't crack your plexiglass. I do this in two parts. the keep everything from sliding around. first part is to create a pilot hole. i use a V-groove bit and slowly lower it down into each of the button you can then remove the plexiglass and set it aside. holes. take your time and it will cut through the plexiglass like a hot knife through butter.

4-Player Pedestal Arcade Cabinet for MAME: Page 14 Step 20: Cut Slot for T-molding now you will cut the slot for your t-molding. Standard molding is 3/4" thick, the same as your MDF. However you want the molding to sit flush with the plexiglass. To do this, you need to offset your slot by the thickness of your plexiglass. This will mean that some of the MDF will stick out below the molding, to eliminate that, i used a roundover bit on the bottom side of the panel, which hides the excess.

4-Player Pedestal Arcade Cabinet for MAME: Page 15 Step 21: Make Sure Everything Fits and Is Right

I decided to mount my controls and make sure everything felt right before installing the artwork.

Step 22: Drill Hole for Fan and Door Lock

I mounted a standard pc case fan in the back to blow hot air out of the case. I used a barrel lock to keep the door in place. You just need to drill the appropriate holes in the back panels

4-Player Pedestal Arcade Cabinet for MAME: Page 16 4-Player Pedestal Arcade Cabinet for MAME: Page 17 Step 23: Add Barrel Lock for Power Switch and Coin Buttons

I mounted my coin buttons in the box under the panel. mounted so that it is hanging straight down in it's this keeps the panel less cluttered. simply decide resting state, when you turn the key, the lock portion where you would like them and drill out the holes with activates a microswitch which is wired to the PC your 1 1/8" forstner bit. power button. this step is not necessary, but makes for a nice way to turn the cabinet on. i also mounted a barrel lock in the front center. this is

Step 24: Paint

The next step is to prime and paint. i used some Kilz 2 latex primer, followed by some Behr black semigloss with a roller.

4-Player Pedestal Arcade Cabinet for MAME: Page 18 Step 25: Attach Panel With Hinge install the piano hinge on the panel so that it is fastened at the rear. as you can see, i was running low on paint so i didn't pain the inside of the control panel box, i wish i would have though.

4-Player Pedestal Arcade Cabinet for MAME: Page 19 Step 26: Artwork

I designed the control panel artwork in photoshop. thing, some that will even print on adhesive vinyl) Take your time and make sure it looks good when viewing it at full size. I made that image at 48 x 20" at Once you have your artwork, place it on the control 300dpi...it was a huge file. I had a photographer friend panel and line it up perfectly. I placed a bright light print it off on his big awesome printer on premium under the panel so i could see where the button holes lustre photo paper. You will want to make sure the were through the paper. then clamp it in place and cut artwork is slightly larger than your panel so you don't out each of the button, joystick and trackball holes have to worry about the edges. (If you dont' have with an x-acto knife. take your time. I placed buttons access to a large format printer, staples can do it, or in the holes as I went, just to keep it from moving. there are places online that specialize this this kind of

4-Player Pedestal Arcade Cabinet for MAME: Page 20 Step 27: Trim Artwork, Add T-Molding

Re-install the plexiglass and install the controls. using your x-acto knife, trim around the outside of your panel to remove excess paper. once that is cleaned up, install your t-molding around the panel.

Step 28: Install T-Molding on Cabinet Base

This is self explanatory. Install the T molding on the base of the cabinet.

4-Player Pedestal Arcade Cabinet for MAME: Page 21 Step 29: Wire Up the Controls.

Find a spot to mount your control interface. I mounted microswitch. mine near the center of the panel to keep the wiring as short as possible. Once that is done, you need to connect a ground wire to every GRND terminal on every switch. These do Each button will have a microswitch, and each not need to be discrete wires, you can chain them joystick will have 4. Using your ratcheting crimpers, together. You will be crimping a ton of connectors. crimp on a wire disconnect and connect it to the NO Take your time to route the wires nicely, you will terminal on the switch, then route your wire to an thank yourself later. imput on the ipac. THis needs done for each

4-Player Pedestal Arcade Cabinet for MAME: Page 22 Step 30: Wire Up Your Trackball

Mount your trackball into the mounting plate and connect it to your usb mouse interface. The one i used also has LED lighting that needs to be connected to a 5v and ground. The Optiwiz that came with my trackball provides this.

4-Player Pedestal Arcade Cabinet for MAME: Page 23 4-Player Pedestal Arcade Cabinet for MAME: Page 24 Step 31: Add a PC and Monitor.

This part is so difficult to document because each x4 machine with 8gb of ram, running windows 7 x64. I person's needs are different. don't plan on going into great detail on setting up the PC, there are many other sources for this info. This I mounted a 42" LCD tv on the wall for my display. instructable was for building the cabinet. If you need more inspiration or assistance, check out the forums There is planty of space inside the base of the at arcadecontrols.com cabinet to store a PC. I used an older AMD phenom II

4-Player Pedestal Arcade Cabinet for MAME: Page 25 Step 32: Enjoy.

If you followed the instructions, you should end up with an awesome 4 player pedestal cabinet. Here you can see the final product, with the original sketchup render.

4-Player Pedestal Arcade Cabinet for MAME: Page 26 Sorry about the confusion. I just measured it and you are correct. the dimensions of the top internal brace are 24" x 10.5", not 13" I updated the steps to reflect the proper measurements. i did not cut the top brace at an angle, it is just a basic rectangle. Made a couple mistakes along the way, but it still turned out pretty good! Thanks very much for the howto severdhed!

i'm pretty sure it is 18" front to back, but it has been so many years since i built this, i don't remember exactly. I'll do my best to remember to measure it tonight when i get home. Thanks much! I was thinking it might be 20 inches because that is how big your image was? Thanks for checking? I am curious about how big the lip or overhang is on the front too. Probably 1-2 inches...

Again, this is awesome, great steps and tips! The top is 18"deep by 46" wide. The image was 1"bigger in each side so I didn't have to worry about minor size discrepancy when aligning it.

The overhang at the front is about ¾". On the angled parts it is 1¾"

The bottom of the control panel box is screwed in to the top supports in the base with 6 screws..

I am thinking about making this project. Does anyone have an estimated cost for the build - PC and TV? I do realize prices change quickly, but i do need to sace up for it. thanks in advance... I’m doing it and without factoring buying a tv and using my own or borrowing tools it is $700 for me. That is assuming $100 for a old eBay computer. I did this project for a guy in the Army who is going to put the set up in it.

4-Player Pedestal Arcade Cabinet for MAME: Page 27 awesome work, great job

I’ve built this and am now getting my tail kicked and hitting my head on the wall trying to figure out the programming part. I can get things to work one way then the rest fall apart. Do you have any guidance. At this point I’ll pay someone to set it up. i'll try to help out if I can. The reason i didn't include that is that there are so many variables between different computer hardware, operating systems, front ends, mame versions, controller interfaces...it's hard to make a good general guide. Tell me about your setup and what kind of problem you are having and i'll try to help. the forums at arcadecontrols.com are a great source of information and assistance, if you aren't already a member there, i highly recommend it. http://forum.arcadecontrols.com/ I’ll check it out as well.

So my set up is yours to a T. (At first). I have rocket launcher and hyper spin on a . And I finally got that working but for some reason the roms I have and rocketlauncher don’t always want to launch even though they are good roms, and they show green on rocketlauncher in audit.

After month or two with that I have a friend that created a pi for his arcade. And works and runs great. But now only reads my ipac4 as a keyboard and doesn’t recognize the tracker ball.

So seems if I get one thing working the rest doesn’t and when I solve the other problem another comes up. I've never even heard of rocket launcher, so I won't be much help there.. I did try hyperspin when it first came out, i always preferred to use MaLa for my front end. For your roms not launching, do they work if you launch them from the command prompt? Are they matched to the version of mame you are using? as for it not recognizing your controls...unless they have changed a lot since i bought mine, the ipac 4 is only ever detected as a keyboard. If you exit your front end back to the windows desktop (assuming you are running windows on your desktop computer, does moving the trackball move your mouse cursor? Rocketlauncher is the new backend that goes with hyperspin. Yes I can play the roms outside of rocketlauncher. I think I’m going to stick with the pi just need to figure out how to reconfigure pi to read as a 4 player keyboard like I could with hyperspin Made some changes to the basic design, Raspberry Pi internals, but space for all my old consoles below it. The top sheet is actually custom direct printed .20 acrylic. Left enough space to add a trackball if I want.

would you be willing to share that image? would love to use on the one im building

Attached to this -Not sure if they downsample though. - Two images - Board area, and layout template. I used . added a PDF of the hole cut pattern for the buttons/joystick. 4-Player Pedestal Arcade Cabinet for MAME: Page 28 The buttons/Joystick holes were made for the following - The red area for the joysticks are full cuts, the grey is only 1/16"contersink. https://www.amazon.com/Easyget-LED-DIY-Joystick-Il...

Thank you so much! awesome, i like it

Just wrapped up the project, a big thank you to severehed! Went with an X-Men theme to rekindle my inner 90s spirit.

that looks great. good job.

I highly recommend not adding buttons for administrative fictions. Sure, it will be fine if you are the only one using it, but i guarantee that as soon as you have something like that mapped to a button, or even a button combination, someone will press it and screw everything up. That is what people do. I have 4 children. I can go and play on this thing for hours without a single issue.... if one of them is sitting there for 2 minutes, suddenly nothing works. Once things are setup properly, you shouldn't need to access the mame config. I suggest keeping a wireless keyboard and mouse under the top panel and pull it out when you need to make changes...you will thank me later. Has anyone come up with an easy way to switch between the emulator front end and say steam os? I'd like to use this for things like Towerfall or Brawhalla as well(or any fighting games on steam such as killer instinct etc). Many Frontends are able to have Steam Games in their collection, or one can use programs that add Emulation games into Steam's Big Picture mode. Also, you could set hotkey combos with an app like joytokey to close or open applications. Set different key profiles when specific apps are in focus. You could probably add a shortcut to the frontend for steam via a batch file. Getting full screen and refocusing the frontend on exit is my problem, but i know it can be done. Perhaps closing the frontend when steam opens and reopening it when it exits. Command line arguments should do the trick. Im currently running Emulationstation (Portable) in win10. It always leaves a command prompt window open in the background. Anything outside of Retroarch fails to refocus the frontend on exit. Would love the see the shutdown command work too. It works fine on the rpi version. Herb did us a favor making a windows portable version, but some of the commands didnt get changed for the difference in OS. Im not a programmer, else id compile a fixed version myself. I have multiple steam games on mine, but i'm not using steam OS. I use the MaLa frontend launcher for my emulators. You can have a folder full of batch files that launch PC games and MaLa will treat them like roms. I use this to launch several steam games, including:

Mortal Kombat 9 Mortal Kombat 10 Street Fighter iV Injustice: Gods among us

4-Player Pedestal Arcade Cabinet for MAME: Page 29 Shovel Knight pacman championship edition and a few others i can't think of right now. Thanks for posting this. It inspired me to start building my own.

thats awesome, great job. I'm glad i could help.

I am making this project and noticed that you have 6 buttons for players 3 & 4. Is there a reason to have that many buttons for those players? Everything I’ve read indicates you only need 4 buttons for players 3 & 4. I did not really think about it when I built it. I based by panel off the north coast custom arcades panel. They actually have more buttons per player. For the arcade games that I have played you would be fine with 4 buttons on player 3 and 4. It would allow you a little more room on the panel. My only minor complaints about my panel are that the player 2 joystick is a little close to the trackball. But I couldnt put it much further away. If you only had 4 buttons on player 4 you could move it out a bit. My player 3 joystick (one on the left) is difficult for me to use because of the angle you have to place your wrist. Most sites recommend placing you joystick so that up is always toward the screen. I did this and it is fine for player 4 (one on right) but your wrist is at an odd angle for player 3. I find myself not always going the direction I want. Less buttons may help a little. In reality though for the games that you play 4 player on it doesnt really matter. Most 4 player games are beatem up type games and precision does not make that much of a difference. Having more buttons would be helpful if you plan on having console games or steam games on the cabinet. Long story short I just went loosely off someone elses panel and I liked the symmetry. By the way sorry my apostroph button doesnt work. Sure, here you go. It is a very large file, about 1gb zipped. It is the photoshop PSD file designed at 300dpi at 48"x18". I tried to keep it fairly organized with the layers and folders and such, there are some layers in there that were experimental stuff i was trying out. Help yourself. https://1drv.ms/u/s!Avg_9cabCZ9NkFzrLxqp5VpBzf-g severdhed, thanks for all your instructions and artwork, they are great! Would you also be willing to share the dimensions on the control where you mounted all the buttons, joystics and trackball? I never documented the button hole locations, i didn't have a template for them when i installed them. I'll try to take a few measurements and post them over the next day or so. Wow, that's awesome thanks! Looks much nicer than my own very poor attempt at coming up with something Gauntlet branded. Thanks very much Severdhed for sharing your build. We used your instructions to build an Arcade for the local Rec Center in Locust Point, Baltimore, MD. It's an over-clocked Raspberry Pi 3 with mini heat sinks/fan running Retropie with a Comic Book Theme. We couldn't figure out how to configure within emulation station/retroarch a single exit button for ease of use, so we used diodes connected from our intended exit button to the hotkey & start buttons to trick a two button press with one and we used a toddler's magnetic lock for the top cabinet. Kids & adults are loving it!

4-Player Pedestal Arcade Cabinet for MAME: Page 30 Thats awesome, great job.

Thanks! We also added a 7-day power timer to turn on/off the cabinet/Raspberry Pi and a Arduino /Uno with IR LED to send the IR signal to power on the TV after decoding the IR hexadecimal code, IR protocol and bit length replay using IR library example code and code from circuitbasics.com. Thanks again Severdhed!

that looks awesome

Off to pick up my vinyl top sheet to go under the acrylic on friday! currently a raspberry pi Retropie arcade, but with plans to use an AMD Phenom II x6 with a GTX 970 and 16gb ram in the near future. December will bring some Ultimarc light guns to the project!

awesome. I've been tempted to pick up some of those ultimarc guns for a while now. Nice build.

Thanks. I used your template and stretched the dimensions a hair. top sheet is 2' x 4'. i think it sits a inch or 2 taller. Finally complete. although, i think rom organization is going to take the rest of my life... I started some Perler Art to theme out the room. another tedious endeavor. I can already tell that the raspberry pi isn't going to cut it for 4 player 64.

I noticed you angled the forward direction for players 3 and 4. From severdhed's design, it doesn't look like he angled player 3 and player 4's joysticks. Does your player 3 and 4 setup work well? I'm thinking of doing it the same way. Do you offer the plans for this cabinet?

This instructable is pretty much the plans for the cabinet. If you look at it, there is a diagram with dimensions of the pieces, and a guide on how i built it. What more do you need? thought there might be a image file of the control layout to print

I'm planning on building the control panel from this cab to use with a RetroPie. I've never done anything like this before, so it'll be a great experience, ha... The polish on yours looks fantastic, the details like the "correct" colors for the arcade sticks and buttons, and even the rings around your player buttons look great. Did you go out of your way to piece that stuff together? I've been looking at Ultimarc's site pricing out the sticks and I can't seem to find an orange ball top listed anywhere! Did you actually buy 4 red j-sticks and then just swap out 3 of the ball tops? I know you did this a long time ago, so maybe there product line has changed, but I just can't seem to find it. I think I just realized you used the coin button housing as the player buttons up top, which was a very clever thing to do.

4-Player Pedestal Arcade Cabinet for MAME: Page 31 Thanks for this awesome guide. I'm excited to slowly purchase all the supplies and get my own put together! Thanks for the kind words. You are right, i swapped the centers of the player buttons with the coin buttons to give it that added touch.

I did buy the balltop Jsticks from ultimarc, and then purchased four Hand Candy balltops from groovygamegear.com. They arent a 100% perfect color match for the happ buttons, but they are pretty close. http://groovygamegear.com/webstore/index.php?main_page=product_info&products_id=368

This is also where i purchased my trackball, buttons and T-molding. good luck with your build!

Be sure to add Broforce to your library if you havent already. We've had countless hours for 4 player fun!

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