Building A Mame Cabinet

If your running windows you ll want to use mame32 which gives a nice gui around the mame engine.

Building a mame cabinet. I saw a mame cabinet on ebay a few months and i very nearly bought it. But it was still quite expensive and i wouldn t have had the same satisfaction that i know i m going to get after building my own cabinet. All the fun of playing arcade games on a full size standing cabinet all the usefulness of six pull out drawers worth of extra storage space. Using mame building a mame cabinet.

I thought i would post my progress and such. Well after a few months of thinking of building a mame cabinet i m on my way. With that in mind picking what style of cabinet you want to build for your mame machine is one of the toughest and most important decisions you ll have to make. Also below is a pdf file that will help y.

I had known about mame for some time but never considered actually building one. I have basically always wanted to do one even before mame was around. Building the cabinet was a bit of an impulse. How to build an arcade cabinet for gaming and storage.

Diy home arcade machine. The mame multiple arcade machine emulator software is probably the best known emulator in the world and plays the majority of your classic arcade games. There are two ways to own your own mame arcade cabinet. Doc s cabinet how to build a cabinet.

Hey chris i min the process of building my own cabinet similar to what todd did. Although exactly what your. Hey guys this is a basic little step by step for building your own home arcade. The construction pictures made everything look straightforward and easy.

For the lazy in all of us the easiest way is to just go to ebay and buy a pre assembled mame machine for around 2 300. While browsing the web one day i found some examples. I could have saved myself a lot of time and effort there instead of attempting to build one myself.