There's a lot of free plans and pay plan on the web. You can build your own Arcade Cabinet using Cabinet Plans and your own wood. You can buy boards that have some large number of games already installed as well. Again, my goal was "a computer in an arcade box" that can play not just arcade games, but also Doom, or whatever.
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Who wouldn't want one in their house? Well, our spouses, but that's another post.įirst step, build or buy? How to start the "Hanselcade?" The Goal I spent hours wasting nickels, then quarters, then nickels again, at the local arcade. I also have no idea what I'm doing, so I've also got ignorance on my side. They will prefer original Arcade CRT monitors and more expensive, higher quality parts. Hardware Disclaimer 2: Many folks that build arcade cabinets have a purist view of how these things should be done. What I'm doing here is putting a computer in a pretty box.
I do own some original arcade boards, but if you want to emulate arcade games with MAME (Multiple Arcade Machine Emulator), you can search the 'tubes. This series of posts has nothing to do with that. Software Disclaimer 1: There's all sorts of legal issues around emulating arcade games. This is the first part of a multi-part series I'm going to do about assembling an Arcade Cabinet for my house.