Very small mame cabinet?

[c0ldb33r]

I'd love to make or buy a mame cabinet, but I don't have loads of space.

I'd love to have one about the size and shape of a vectrex. (In fact, it'd be awesome if the controllers could flip out in the same way!)

Does anyone here already have such a thing?

[InsaneDavid]

Not quite that small, but here's mine...

[c0ldb33r]

Oh wow that's awesome. It is comfortable to use for long stretches at a time?

[HappehLemons]

That's so cool..

[Compute]

http://project4000.com.au/2009/08/11/weeeeeeeee/

Pocket_lucho has done a number of these, with varying degrees of complexity. Some are based around a plug-n-play stick. Others, like this MVS cab has some original hardware involved (somehow). I've also seen pix of a Daytona USA micro cab by the same person.

I would think it's MAME-able if you used one of those micro-ATX motherboards with a solid state (usb?) disk drive.

A few years back I remember working with a collector on a table-top JAMMA rig, using a 9" CRT, but we each had different goals and parted ways.

[Flack]

This mini-MAME cabinet was sitting on the Atari Age table (right next to mine) at OVGE 2005.

http://www.robohara.com/photo/index....e=p1010031.jpg

[InsaneDavid]

Oh wow that's awesome. It is comfortable to use for long stretches at a time?

Yeah, actually the control panel is just a little higher than the control panels on most cocktail tables, so it's pretty comfortable. Also comfortable to kneel at - I've actually looped Gyruss while kneeling. Joystick is 4-8 way switchable via pulling it up and twisting.

I wish I could say that I built it myself but I had the cabinet as a starting point. I got it from the school where my girlfriend works in exchange for repairing two others (another Galaga and a Pac-Man). Originally it was a Jakks plug and play hardwired to arcade controls and a little TV. I gutted it, changed the control panel around a little, installed a computer, LCD monitor, designed a new marquee and got it to where it is.

All the information is here. (which I do need to update, I'm going to go through the game list again this weekend and sort out what plays 100%, etc.)

[Steve W]

If I knew a damn thing about customizing electronics and such, I'd love to buy up an old Tapwave Zodiac handheld and put it inside an old Coleco tabletop VFD arcade game. Set it up with MAME and install extra buttons and maybe a tiny spinner.