Standard JAMMA Cabinet Dimensions

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I've Googled, Yahoo-ed, and several other types of searches but for the life of me, I can't find any dimensions for a standard, plain ol' JAMMA cabinet. I'm looking to build one myself...anybody have a link?

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I've Googled, Yahoo-ed, and several other types of searches but for the life of me, I can't find any dimensions for a standard, plain ol' JAMMA cabinet. I'm looking to build one myself...anybody have a link?
Do you just want to build a catch-all cab? There are tons of different JAMMA games that come in tons of different cabs. JAMMA is just a harness standard, not a cab standard.

If you're building your own, you could find any cab style you like and mimmick it. Just make sure the control panel has enough room to lay out all the controls you want to add and you should be fine. :) If you really want to trick it out, you could add a rotating monitor to play horizontal and vertical games. Or build two cabs. ;)

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I had thought about dimensions for, say, a Popeye or Donkey Kong....something along those lines. I guess I'm kinda looking for a cabinet pattern that I could cut out over and over again for different kit/conversion games, like Magic Sword, Final Fight, Kageki...

I guess like you said, I'll have to customize it to fit the controls and such...I like your rotating monitor idea! I had assumed there was a sort of "standard" cabinet, since Popeye, Donkey Kong and others are pretty much the same cabinet. Do you think one of these Nintendo (Popeye) cabinets work for the majority of the JAMMA games/controls out there? And, hate to sound stupid, but what is a candy cabinet? Is that just another name for the SNK/Neo-Geo cabs?

Here is a link for cabinet dimensions that I finally found very early this morning:

http://www.jakobud.com/

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I had assumed there was a sort of "standard" cabinet, since Popeye, Donkey Kong and others are pretty much the same cabinet. Do you think one of these Nintendo (Popeye) cabinets work for the majority of the JAMMA games/controls out there?
Those Nintendo cabs were all the same - approx 24"wx36"d, Nintendo just kept everything uniform by choice. (Punch Out!! uses the same cabinet style, but it's taller and a little deeper to accomodate the extra monitor.) They're good for the old Nintendo classics, but I wouldn't use one for a JAMMA catch-all, because the CP just doesn't have enough room on it for a lot of controls.


And, hate to sound stupid, but what is a candy cabinet? Is that just another name for the SNK/Neo-Geo cabs?
The Candy cab is a specific style of Neo cab, it's the smallish white one. The other popular Neo cab is the big red cabinet. I never cared for either style, (ducks) but I also don't focus on Neo games and my knowledge of them is limited, so somebody correct me if I'm way off. :)

You should be able to find cab plans online, check out http://www.arcadecontrols.com as a starting point and I'd bet you'll find something that will work.

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You should be able to find cab plans online, check out http://www.arcadecontrols.com as a starting point and I'd bet you'll find something that will work.

I'm an idiot...it took me all of 3 seconds to find what I was looking for...and I already had that website bookmarked, too, AND I thought I had looked through it already. :embarrassed:

Thanks for the friendly push! :D

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Just for conversational sake ... asking for a "standard JAMMA" cabinet is like asking for the dimensions of a "standard V8 car". In other words, so many companies made JAMMA games that there's not any one type of standard for those cabinets. I have at least ten different JAMMA games in my arcade and none of the cabinets are the same.

If you're building your own or even adapting a pre-existing cabinet, you can use anything you want!

Like AA said, those Vs. cabinets are a bit small. I made my MAME cabinet out of one, and while it's okay with 2 joysticks and three buttons each, what I find it there's really not enough room for two people to stand side by side and play two player games comfortably.

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I'll probably use either the dimensions for Centipede or Kangaroo, they seem to be the right size for what I'm looking for...they sure seem to be the heaviest, too!