Bought some speakers on eBay and found out they were just grills, despite the auction saying that it comes with speakers.
Well, I've been waiting for more of my parts to come in and ran into an issue. $169 - All artwork - obviously the highest cost part for the whole thing. $27 - Bezel Glass - I went with a smoky-colored Acrylic. $0 - LED Strips for the marquee (I got them a couple of years ago for a different project, I can't recall the cost). $0 - Monitor (found someone giving away old monitors on Facebook for free) $16 - Speakers (not counting the $10 speakers that I threw away) $0 - Speaker Amp (already had laying around, I think it was $10 originally) $44 - Joysticks, Buttons, wireharnass, USB encoder
$0 - Tools, hardware, wires (already owned) SNES - MK, MKII, MK3, UMK3, (MK1 Blood Hack)Īdditional Arcade games: Time Killers and Blood StormĬost of build (rounded to the nearest half dollar: I will end up putting a bunch of MK games on this thing.Īrcade - MK, MKII, MK3, UMK3, MK4 (if it can run on Pi) Also I will be running the emulation via RPi. The difference in this build is that I'm going to be widening the control panel, ever so slightly, to accommodate easier access for two players. (I'm still working on the artwork, and I'm not sure if I will just go with the MK2 art, or something custom.Īs you can see I also plan on making a custom riser for the cabinet. I have lots of progress photos, but I'm going to hold off on posting those until closer to the end. I figured I'd start sharing a little of what I'm doing with you all. Right now, I'm waiting on the controls to all come in, along with a few other parts like the monitor and speakers. My last cab I was going to make a 2nd "drop-in" control pane with Mortal Kombat control scheme, but I never got around to doing it. So, what I decided to do a couple of weeks ago is beginning to design a cabinet in the size of the 1up cabs, but make it with the correct styling of the actual arcade cab that I'm trying to simulate. That is when reality slapped me in the face and said, it's still a 1up cab. But! When the Mortal Kombat cabinet came out and I got to play it, I was really wanting to buy one. The components are cheap, the build is cheap, they all look the same with different stickers slapped on them, no light behind the marquee, etc.
I am not a big fan of the 1up Arcade cabinets, for many reasons I'm sure that many of you are not. I figured it's about time to do something new. It's been a while since I've made anything, so now that I'm living in a new city and got all my tools nicely organized.
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