Neo-Geo MVS Mini Cabinet

I know people in here aren't 100% crazy about Mame cabinets and emulation in general but I thought this was relevant enough to share.

I had wanted an MVS cab for years but the timing was always wrong. I owned one a few years back that I was refurbishing but I sold it after I got frustrated with the cost of repairing it and the sheer size of the thing.

So my priority switched to trying to find a miniaturized MVS cab (not a candy but the miniature version of the MVS 2 Slot cab). After looking for months I decided, why not just build one? So I designed a mini-MVS to fit right next to my desk in my home office.

I just about finished it this past weekend and I thought I'd share with everyone. And before the hardware die hards flame me to death, yes I own an MVS board. I took the measurements for the full-size MVS-2 slot cab and scaled them back about 25%. It runs on a 17" LCD and is made of 3/4" MDF. Graphics were done custom sized in Adobe Illustrator and printed out by www.emdkay.net (if you ever need custom or reproduction arcade art this guy does a great job).

I'm in the process or ordering custom-sized side art and the over-the-coin-door decals.

Here's a link to the worklog on BYOAC.









-Jeff

Looks pretty good for a repro

Goddamn that looks nice.

I'm really impressed.. I had to look at it a few times actually. You did an amazing job, show us some screens of it running!

nice build job! You going to slap some side-art on that?

again, great work!

I'm going to build a cabinet for my daughter and that looks about her size. Would you have dimensions available?

Wow! that is really Nice....

Yeah, there will be decals on the side. There's a guy on the BYOAC forums who screen prints reproductions of the MVS artwork and he's going to be doing a custom smaller size for me. I just have to get him the measurements.

NeoGeoManiac - I can send you the file I used if you'd like - it's in adobe illustrator format scaled 100% to size (I can convert to PDF if you want). Just send me a PM with your email address.

Thanks for the compliments, I'll have a video of it running later on this week.

Nice job man

Nice job, really looks like the real deal. The only thing I can think that's worth critiquing is the LCD. You should have stuck a real 19" arcade monitor in there instead. LCD's just aren't the same for games.

Great Job.............................

Very nice Work! I would also agree on putting in an arcade monitor for that true arcade experience.

Definitely an arcade monitor would be ideal, but given the size constraints inside (trust me, the cabinet is a lot smaller than it looks in the pics) there's no way I could fit anything bigger than a 13-15" arcade monitor in there. LCD was a better option as far as heat output, size, and breathing room for the rest of the electronics inside.

The LCD honestly looks pretty damn good, it's running Mame w/ Direct X in native resolution using one of the RGB screen filters. I'll show it off in the video to come.

Excellent cuts, the design is extremely close to the original if not the same. My only complaint is the 7 button layout, I hate 7 buttons, but that's a presonal prefference really, so congrats are in order. If I were you I would make separate CP's for 4 buttons or 6 buttons.

Congratulations, that's a fine looking cab you've built there. Really nice job you've done.

Youtube video is up finally - just a run through of the cab and a couple games - Fatal Fury 2, SF3:TS, Super Contra, and MK2.

And for the record I'm a lot better at these games than I look on the video, I'm trying to play sitting sideways to not be in the path of the camera, haha.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Tzi-AY7_uw

Beautiful Cab

Your cab looks GREAT!!! Thanks for the video too. I really liked the front end you used.

Dude that ROCKS MAN!!!

I'm planning to build a fullsized 1Slotter cabinet with my buddy andre (an Exact replica exept in black) but I cant find any plans

One of these would look awesome in my room next to my regular computer :P

please share the build plans