projects/arcade
There are websites about other people making their own cabinets and there are a few design ideas about what to do. Because of my inability to find a design I liked, I decided to make my own. This project was started in April of 2007 and hopefully will be finished by September of the same year.
The plan is to make a cabinet to house a Playstation 2 and Dreamcast console in some shelves at the bottom of the cabinet. The joystick and buttons on the arcade will be soldered to the buttons and D-pad on the DC and PS2 controllers. I will then be able to use any PS2 or DC game. I chose the Dreamcast because it has a lot of 2D fighting games and the Playstation 2 has a lot of classic compilations of old arcade games.
PLANS CABINET ASSEMBLY JOYSTICK ASSEMBLY CABINET ELECTRONICS
JOYSTICK ELECTRONICS PAINTING FINAL ASSEMBLY FAQ
For those who don't want to look thru all the pictures, here is the finished product.