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Hi guys, I usually lurk around the Pinball area, and admit to knowing fuck all about this stuff, but have a question.

 

I have a friend who is looking to buy a 2 player cocktail mame setup.

 

Wondering who you would recommend that could supply one in the Geelong/Melbourne area?

 

Roughly how much $$$ would you expect to buy one for?

 

Thanks in advance:D

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How long is a piece of string?

 

The prices vary wildly depending on the quality of the build, the PC that went into it, a whole variety of factors.

 

I wouldn't sell my own machine for less than $2500.

 

But i've seen much lower quality ones with shitter (low end) PCs in them for $500 to $1000.

 

A slow PC will ruin the experience completely. So will something that's been built by a beginner or not very well thought out.

 

I built one last year that cost $4000 but it was made to match the furniture and had enough computing power to run a small country's government.

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A faster computer doesn't mean a better machine, so long as the games installed play without any frameskiping it doesn't matter if its a Pentium II or the latest quad core. Granted with a faster computer you can put on more games but you are stuck with using Windoze and all the baggage than comes with it.
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The pre-built cocktails i have seen are all $2000+ and are normally 1XXX in 1 boards. It would probably in all honesty be better to buy a flat-pack cocktail cab kit and just set the thing up with your mate. Shouldnt be too hard and could end up alot cheaper. Seen those flat pack ones for like $500 or so
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Building one is not difficult. Upright or cocktail.

 

You start with a few sheets of 6mm MDF and you draw the template for the sides onto it.

Use it as a prototype template and you can hack bits off it with a jigsaw or scrollsaw until your happy with it. If you can trace one that a friend has or one in an arcade or pub you will be off to a flying start.

 

From there you need a copy-cutter router bit and you make 2 identical sides. Once you have these the rest is basically rectangles to fill in the width of the cabinet.

 

Just make the control panel at least 6 inches deep so you have room to install everything, otherwise things start to get real tight in there.

 

For the screen, you use another copy-cutter router bit, and you make an outside template of your LCD which includes the width of the router, and then when you use your template on the top you're cutting out you will have the exact shape and dimensions of your LCD.

 

For $500 you could buy all the MDF you need, a decent brand router, jigsaw, AND have money left over to have the glass professionally cut and the edges done.

 

Something I did on my latest cab was include a timber lip around the table top so that the glass just dropped into place with no clips required.

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have an original 'hankin' cabinet machine with a 48in1 PCB on it if this is of interest. It is the original cocktail table machine with 20cent coin slot etc etc

 

Hey, tmscnc, I noticed you have a heap of posts but only 52 points. What are you doing with all your points. Are you hitting the casino or what? :lol

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Thanks guys,

I have pointed him to AA for info, and am sure he could build it himelf as he is a electrician, but like most of us he is very 'time poor' as he has just started his own business.

Therefore he was thinking of buying a 'ready made' unit, but it is still up in the air.

Thanks Ozstick your unit looks great.

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