>ah sweet another thing to maintain, dust, and waste electricity on

Unless you are SURE that you're going to have more people than yourself playing the cab on a regular basis, assume it will just be you 99% of the time and design your cabinet and control panel for the best single player experience. I wouldn't even bother with the 2p joystick and buttons and would use that space for specialized controls.

>>12349854
if its not going to have a crt then dont bother

Just as long as you don't let anyone come on the games then you're already doing better than Galloping Ghost.

>>12349854
Getting anything with less than 6 buttons is retarded, unless you're really sure.
Getting anything with less than 4 buttons stick your dick into a fucking electrical socket.

>>12349854
Don't

You'll barely use it,get bored of owning it and eventually hate having it around. Those things are extremely heavy and just a huge hassle whenever you need to move them around

>>12349854
Don't let the thing get cold. They like to be warm or they tend to break.

install gentoo

>>12350412
They come in all sizes, several of which are easy to move.

>>12350301
You shouldn't have to worry about either if you make your control panel mounting correctly.
With just a couple of cheap latches and MDF you can have multiple unique control panels to swap between.

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>>12349953
These days there are 4k 26" 4:3 monitors.
I've never used one but the results could be impressive if the hardware driving it was capable.

>>12349854
#1 tip: Don't do it.
Buy a high quality arcade stick and monitor (whether CRT or 240hz 4k VRR).

>>12350429
Kek

step one buy one

>>12349854
Get a comfortable stool.

>>12350429
This but I ironically. Then get a Linux Build of MAME on top

Should I buy an astro city or a blast city?

>>12349854
Pointless for someone who's only doing it to impress strangers on the internet. Just get AI to generate the pictures you need to impress your fellow redditors.

>>12350429
i like ya cut /g/

>>12351273
If you get a blast city with a 31khz monitor in it you'll always be jealous of people with 15/24khz monitors that display the games with less defined scanlines.

>>12349854
Instead of a cabinet, get a 36" CRT and arcade stick controllers. it is vastly superior.

>>12349854
>>12349889
Make it 2P just in case of Robotron and Smash TV

>>12349854
>12350443
That cabinet is well made, but I hate the Marvel side art and marquee. It would look much better with a non-specific and more subdued side-art.

>>12349854
get an arcade stick and after an hour of street fighter, remember why you stopped going to the arcade

Nowadays, I'd say they're not worth it, unless you want to get into them as an actual hobby. Prices are high now, and not compatible with the fact that cabs are a money and time sink, because chances are good that you WILL wind up having issues with them, which you will either need to fix yourself or pay somebody else to fix. When cabs were typically a few hundred bucks, that's not as big of a deal, since you were buying a piece of vintage hardware that you knew could have problems. But now they're priced and marketed as luxury vintage goods. If you buy a fully serviced cab it might last you a good while with no issues, but you're probably going to have to pay even more.
As for arcade PCBs, similarly restrain yourself and only buy things you really want, because arcade PCBs, depending on the game, can also be another point of random failure.

>>12353636
That would all depend on the type of cabinet you buy or build. A cabinet using an LCD monitor connected to a PC would have no more troubles than a desktop PC setup.

>>12353973
Yeah, certainly, the same could probably be said of something like a Vewlix with more modern arcade hardware (though even some of those are failure prone), since several of those are basically glorified dedicated PCs

Build it yourself.

>>12355162
lol

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>>12355162
>Build it yourself.

>>12355898
That machine has killed many passing by in the night.

>>12355898
>wall decor placed behind an arcade cabinet
nigga why

>>12356045
Spiders need cool things to look at too in his house I guess.

>>12356045
garbage pail kids

>>12349854
BASIC/ACHIEVABLE:
+ 8 buttons each (minimum).
+ Latersl support for drink.
+ Centered ashtray for cigarretes.
+ Retractable keyboard + mouse under the player's sticks.

INTERMEDIATE:
+ 3 players for max fun .

HARD:
+ Rotetable screen, to maximize vertical shooters.

>>12356108
>+ 8 buttons each (minimum).
You don't need that many buttons unless you're going to play non-/vr/ fighting games, and even then you're lame for using macros.

>>12349854
The worst CRT you can put in the cabinet is better than any non-CRT option.

>>12355898
here comes the aeroplane nyeeeeeeeow

>>12349854
Slow and steady

>>12349889
This plus rotatable screen for tate mode

>>12356549
>local bowling alley arcade from when i was a kid
>still have their old cabs from the early 90s
>all replaced with flat screens
>always out of order whenever i visit
They got mad last time i mentioned i would be willing to buy them if they wanted to just get rid of them at this point. I just know one day i will go there and they will have thrown them out.

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>>12350443
the games are going to look like crap anyway unless you use shaders

>>12358480
retroglass or whatever works

>>12358480
Well you can use shaders with that monitor so...

>>12358343
ro tate mode

>>12358354
Talk to the manager or the owner, the clerks don't give a fuck.

>>12356045
BYO MAMEcades were a fad among Gen Xers and early millennials during the late 2000s/early 2010s. Many were built with little more than the fascination with having an arcade cab in your home which could play everything* in mind, so people would construct these monstrosities with no real place to put them or any real artistic considerations in mind. As a result, you'd wind up with oversized, awkward to use cabs with an inordinate amount of controls, random stuff like 3D Mario and Link marquees on them, complete with a relatively tiny LCD monitor hooked up to a retired desktop tower. People would build them and flaunt them on forums, but I'd imagine that most got very minimal usage before being retired to the garage or dismantled entirely.
So that was probably placed there because there was just nowhere else to put it.

>>12349854
>What are your top tips for owning a home arcade cabinet?
First off, arcade cabinets are fun for arcade visits, but don't really lend themselves to long-term play unless you like playing while standing. You can get a better experience with a supergun JAMMA box and whatever motherboard you plug into it, plus your controls of choice in your lap. If you still want a cab, more power to ya, but consider yourself warned.
Second, if you don't know soldering and electrical troubleshooting, your board is a ticking time bomb. Shit's old, was ran non-stop for hours and hours and hours on end back when it was in circulation, plus whatever use it's gotten since it hit the used market. Everything can go bad. Caps, resistors, 74-series logic chips, RAM chips, ROMs actually containing the game data, traces on the board(and IN the board) can rust and break or crack, and worst of all the proprietary chips that ONLY exist on that particular PCB can die. If you aren't capable of troubleshooting and repairs, expect to spend big money on the few people who still are willing to work on arcade PCBs these days.
Third, just keep it unplugged when you aren't using it. Write down your high score if it's that important to you. Arcade power supplies suck down the juice, and the longer it's running the sooner it's going to have some component break down. And the longer that CRT runs, the worse the burn-in and blur gets. Conserve it if you want to keep it.
Fourth, you need a truck or large van to move the thing, and probably some help and a cart. They weren't exactly designed to be broken down and easily transported, just shipped to location and left until disposed of. If you don't have all that, then go ahead and add the transportation costs to your budget. As well as if you need to take it somewhere for repairs.

If you are still interested, then rock on. Otherwise, there are options that are cheaper and much more user-friendly than bringing an arcade cab home.

>>12356531
Macros aren't things like HP+HK, it's a sequence of inputs. At least try to pretend like you know what you're talking about.

>>12349854
Ummm the second player controls will never get used.

>>12363469
Yours don't?

>>12362968
>Macros aren't things like HP+HK
Yes, they are.
>it's a sequence of inputs.
That's a programmable input, and that's just flat out cheating. Sometimes people on fightcade call those macros but they're stupid.
>At least try to pretend like you know what you're talking about.
No u.

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