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[HamrHead]

Well, I joined the vpforums some time ago and said hello, with all intentions of starting a build log...but life has a funny way of always getting in the way!  I have been working away when I get time and feel it's due time to start doucmenting work to date, get to some build details and ask a few questions...

 

Thanks again to all the members here for their build logs and personal communication - there's an endless supply of help available out there.  A shout out to Zebulon for his email communication and assistance early in the process when I was buying parts. 

 

I started with a Stellar Wars cabinet which was having slight electrical issues.  Although I would have liked to get it working, the plan was to build a virutal cabinet, so I didn't put too much time into figuring things out before gutting it.  (Not sure what to do with all the original parts...if anyone has need for them, please advise.)

 

Here are pics of the original cabinet, both pre- and post-dismantling.

 

HamrHead

I also had some early artwork in mind...simple but effective I think.  I'm a Monster Energy junkie and Kyle Busch fan so intend to have the entire cabinet painted flat black with just the Monster Pinball artwork, similar to Kyle's #54 Nationwide car.

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Edited by HamrHead, 20 September 2013 - 07:41 PM.

[Shadowsclassic]

Well, it looks like you have a solid cab to work with.  I would not have gutted it unless it was beyond all reasonable hope.  A Little work on that and you could have sold it for a good chunk of change even if you didn't want to keep it for yourself.

 

I tried like heck to save mine even though it had the bumper plastics broken off and had a lot of table wear as well as all the paint flaked off the back glass.  You should check my gallery for my MAME cab I made years ago.  I couldn't find an arcade machine that I was willing to give up on.  I ended up taking a little poker cab and building a pedestal and topper for it to make it look like an Asteroids machine.  I could have built one from scratch easier. LOL.

 

The issue I have with my EM cab is finding  LCDs that fits it right.  The table one I got, Westinghouse 40", I thought I could decase and it would fit but I don't think it will now because after partial decase, I see that the frame is almost as big as the case. Sony has a new 160hrz 40" that has almost no bezel around the picture. I might bite the bullet and buy it. In hind sight, just as with the my MAME cab, it would have worked better if I had started from scratch and just built the cab around the LCD.  Actually that may end up still being the plan. I know for sure I will have to rebuild the head around that LCD, I'm still up in the air about if I'm going to mount that portrait or landscape.

[HamrHead]

Here's my initial hardware order for the computer:

Gigabyte 990FXA-UD3 Motherboard
AMD FX-8320 8-Core Processor
Zalman CNPS10X Optima Pure Copper CPU Cooler
Kingston HyperX Blu Black Series 8GB Memory
Corsair Professional Series HX750 Fully Modular 80PLUS Gold Power Supply
EVGA GeForce GTX 660 Superclocked 1046MHZ 2GB Video Card
ADATA SX900 2.5" 128GB SATA3 SSD
Logitech Cordless Desktop MK260 Wireless Keyboard&Mouse
Win7 Home Premium

 

When that box of goodies arrived, I followed it up quickly with some fans for cabinet cooling, a second power supply, and the second video card for DMD/backglass:

EVGA GeForce GTX 650 Superclocked 1GB Video Card
Cooler Master Extreme 2 Power Plus 525W ATX 12V Energy Star Power Supply
3x Bitfenix Spectre 200MM Green LED Case Fan
2x Bitfenix Spectre 120MM Green LED Case Fan

 

HamrHead

 

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