Back in the day I started off with: Put the TV on a table, and place the joystick on a keyboard stand (as in music keyboard stand) in front of it. Nothing fancy and it folded up nicely when I needed to use the space.
Why did you bother making a thread if you were going to just make it anyway?
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Cheap walmart desk...just for a project I was thinking of starting and I wanted a feel for it.
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...stretched...not stretched...freaking thing...not stretched plays better but them borders drive me nuts...first world problems...
I used to use it a lot for Light Gun games, that was great...small screen but fun 'cause you could paly standing up.
Lol, I prefer the cardboard Pac-Man...
I get the shakes from just thinking of playing it...
I get the shakes from just thinking of playing it...
I was thinking of doing something similar myself, but as a slim sit down cabinet that could hold a Sony PVM 20" monitor in a kind of frame mounted at a slight angle on a heavy duty portrait/landscape TV mount like this:
http://www.amazon.com/Mount--Landsc...453827025&sr=1-3&keywords=wall+mount+rotating
This thing has a 110 pound capacity, so I assume it could hold a 70lb PVM and mounting frame.
I get the shakes from just thinking of playing it...
...wrong kind of shakes man, that's the difference between you and I...lol.I'm excited too!
I would add some cross bracing. Just get another 2x4 and nail it in diagonally from the bottom to top on one of the sides. It honestly doesn't look bad in the dark. A lot of terrible MAME cabs are trying to do too much, yours is pretty straight-forward. I would take breaks for your eyes though; that screen is pretty close.
I would also go to the lumber store and find some thin boards you can paint over, and attach that to the outside of the framework you already have. Sometimes they have them for cheap in the damaged section. If you do a good job with the paint, it'll look a lot better.