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If you are going to be building a MAME cabinet, you should have a look at the Mini MAME Cabinet that Greg Kennedy built for some tips. He built this thing from scratch and kept the costs down, using some older electronics was a great way get some use out of the hardware that might not have had a use otherwise. The hand made cabinet turned out very nice, at a glance you can’t tell that it was home made.
“Hardware
Complete hardware specs for this build:
- Intel 1.3ghz Pentium 4
- 128mb RDRAM
- 256mb CF card, CF< ->IDE adapter
- 250W PSU
- PCI: S3 Virge DX, 4mb VRAM
- PCI: Creative (Ensoniq) Sound Blaster PCI
- Monitor: IBM PS/1 13″ CRT VGA (max res: 800×600)
- Speakers: cheap no-brand PC speakers
- MDF: $35
- Screws and wood glue: $15
- Joysticks, buttons, T-Molding: $30
- Plexiglass scraps: $10
- Paint: $15
- Printing: $5
- Fluorescent lamp: $7
- Hinges, lock, misc. fasteners: $30″
