I am moving to a new house shortly that has a massive garage and I would like to kit it out as a games room - mame arcade machine, pool table etc, etc
I was wondering whether I should:
1) Build a mame arcade machine from scratch?
2) Buy a pre-built mame arcade machine?
3) Buy an arcade machine cabinet shell and install all the bits?
There's a lot of info on the net about building your own, but from what I've read your looking at least £500 for all the components plus effort in putting it together if starting from scratch.
Whereas I have seen some pre-built machines for about £300 on ebay.
Shells are also pretty cheap, but again I would need to buy a great deal of components and install them myself
If anyone has any experience of building mame machines, I'd be grateful for your thoughts on this.
Is there any pitfuls or things to look out for if buying a cabinet from ebay?
I'd be interested to know if anybody knows good places to get parts from etc?
Thx
I was wondering whether I should:
1) Build a mame arcade machine from scratch?
2) Buy a pre-built mame arcade machine?
3) Buy an arcade machine cabinet shell and install all the bits?
There's a lot of info on the net about building your own, but from what I've read your looking at least £500 for all the components plus effort in putting it together if starting from scratch.
Whereas I have seen some pre-built machines for about £300 on ebay.
Shells are also pretty cheap, but again I would need to buy a great deal of components and install them myself
If anyone has any experience of building mame machines, I'd be grateful for your thoughts on this.
Is there any pitfuls or things to look out for if buying a cabinet from ebay?
I'd be interested to know if anybody knows good places to get parts from etc?
Thx
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