You don't have a cab ???
Shame !
If you have room, time and money, I would advise to build one yourself.
It's pretty fun, good against stress (thats what my shrink said).
And my cab is connected to internet. I update all windows patches, connect to gamex, pinnemhi, download doff, update steam etc. Etc.
Most of the time, i am working and my playing between work looks like this

My trusty old lapturd and a single screen
If i have a little more free time, i will fold the laptop flat and it becomes the worlds smallest mini cab (and probably the lowest spec too)
Some times, if i actually have time to use my desktop, i will do this

Well not exactly that LOL
But i will just flip the monitor, and no i dont bother to pull the stand off.
I got some styrofoam wedges i cut, so i will set the backglass where the playfield screen is and lay the main screen down on an incline
and Presto, cab view, with a backglass and 8 channel surround.
As far as an actual cab goes
It has gotten as far as Ok my old game PC works (No, we not using my desktop, unless someone wants to give me something to plug my flight gear into)
And it will run a 720p screen at 60fps with all eye candy maxed on all tables running at 1280X768, which looks good on a 26" screen
and far surpasses my playing skills anyways
and the PC has 7.1 good channel audio
And i have a controller, which is basically an xbox controller after meeting a soldering iron and a dremel
And it got test run a bit, and has been sitting on a spare desk ever since.
Have not had time to even think about it
Have to hunt up a 720p used 26" screen.
I have one but it has non removable very large speakers on the sides, so that is no good.
Shame cause it has super good color, and decent input latency but the way they made it, the LDC frame contains the speaker frame
Also need a backglass
Any used 20" monitor will do, resolution kind of does not matter, its a backglass, and its only 20 inches.
like to put like an 8" 1280x600 LCD in for a DMD, can not go bigger because the proportions will get all weird since the backbox would already be up on a riser
(cause the riser is where the rear table speakers get hidden along with the center channel)
And the lockdown bar needs to be wider than normal to accommodate the front of table speakers
One problem with SSF is that literal positioning of sound, which is stupendous acoustically sucks ass in SSF with exciters because sound induced via vibrating the cab wood does not move in illusionary 3D fashion, it just makes the wrong parts of your table vibrate.
You can not really roll a ball diagonally down the table well because there is no middle area for the sound to be in.
So yea fully acoustic surround audio with the backbox on its own dedicated channels
So need like 8 4" drivers and an 8" sub and 2 4 channel amps

^^^ yea, that fan has to go ^^^
No DOF, wont need it
Cab will vibrate enough by itself, and sound wise, i just change sounds on physical things if they dont sound right to me anyways
I have stupid amounts of various mechanical sounds (which are all overly loud LOL) my tables are never normal in that respect anyways.
No idea what the cab will get made from, shipping pallets for all i know
But right now, it's kind of a non thing, i set up the hardware and tested it and that is as far as it got
Full sized cab is very doubtful
I already have a pac man machine, a galaga machine, a gorf machine and a wizard of wor machine
some other jamma boards that i no longer bother swapping out
And those all work, but the arcade hardware is disconnected and they all actually have MS DOS based PC's hanging inside them
running antique versions of MAME, because i got seriously tired of having to constantly fix clean resolder, recap etc the arcade boards
and got fed up with the CRT's dying so they have vga converters and 22" 1280x1024 lcd's which is so over kill for something that runs like a 320 resolution
but it is all you can get in that size.
But anyways, i kinda dont need another full sized thing, more square inches to dust and i hate dusting.




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