Arcade bar top cabinet advice

[phillai]

I attended the Play Blackpool event today and it was awesome.

Some dude had some impressive arcade bar top cabinets and I wanna try and build my own and go one better than his cabs but before I do I got one small question before I start.

What was the average 4:3 screen size in inches in the arcades back before they did widescreen?

[losersclub]

19 inch in woodies If I remember

Japanese cabs were mainly 25/29 inch with a few exceptions.

[QualityChimp]

Did you see that Picade Kickstarter project? Looks swiggedy-sweet!

[importaku]

As nice as they look i can't really see the point of them if you already have a pc that's able to run MAME.

[nonny]

You've seen this guys site?

https://sites.google.com/site/degenatrons/

I've always been tempted by the Xbox conversion as I have one with a 320Gb HDD sitting in my attic.

[phillai]

Yeah I saw picade. Sure looks interesting if a little small.

These are the ones I saw at the show. I think he said the large 4:3 was 19".
He also had a 17" wide-screen which looked sweet with one of the one on one fighters that he showed me but of course that was a wide-screen game. When he showed me same game playing older 4:3 games it was stretched out so I will probably go the 4:3 route.

Check out his cabs on his Facebook...

https://www.facebook.com/pauls.customcabs/photos

[phillai]

As nice as they look i can't really see the point of them if you already have a pc that's able to run MAME.

Nowt like the old shool feeling of trying to beat the arcade on an arcade!

[importaku]

Except it's not an arcade just a box with arcade controls on it and some form of pc running mame. You might as well just build a decent arcade stick with trackball & spinner & connect it to your pc.

[phillai]

Paul who does those arcade bar tops said his cabs have proper jamma boards in them with around 350 games.

The arcade bar top cab project I have in mind, I want a similar sized one like what Paul does but I'm thinking of mini itx mobo with hyperspin interface.

[speedlolita]

350 JAMMA boards wouldn't fit inside any cabinet I know of..

[phillai]

350 JAMMA boards wouldn't fit inside any cabinet I know of..

LOL, maybe I got it wrong on what he told me!

[speedlolita]

Perhaps it was one of those multiple game boards with a JAMMA edge.

[phillai]

Perhaps it was one of those multiple game boards with a JAMMA edge.

Yeah I think that's what it was exactly that - Never heard of this before, surely can't really be legal.

[speedlolita]

Not even remotely legal.

[phillai]

I quite fancy the Picade now and I actually was going to buy it but I can't seem to buy it on their website!!