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So I think I found another deal of the century!  On Craigslist, I found a guy that bought a MAME Ultimate II cabinet complete with a Wells Gardner 27" arcade monitor 4 player control deck completely set up with an I-pac, glowing trackball, and a PC.  If you have searched these out on the internet, new they go for over 3 large.  He was asking $800 bucks for it. 

I get to his house, and he couldn't even demo it for me because he something had happened to the MAMEWAH software and he was experiencing OS issues.  I asked him if he would take $500 bucks for it all things considered...he did!!!

We get the beast home.  I threw in an Intel C2D PC and reconfigured MAME with the Maximus Arcade FE with Vista x64.  Everything worked perfect!!!  Put a coat of jet black semi-gloss on the lower half of the cabinet, ordered some sideart and a marquee, put in a flourescent light for the marquee, added some speaker covers, and presto, below I now have something that I have wanted my entire life...and super cheap too!

Below is the latest version of my MAME cabinet!  Enjoy!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=1erImlUsAs0 (http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=1erImlUsAs0)

Jason

K+ on really good purchase and fixup!

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 :105-  It looks like you got a steal and did a nice job cleaning it up.  :3- :3-

Outstanding Yoeddy1!  :131-

It would be nice if you could shoot some internal shots of your set up.  :79-

K+ on the Great Deal and Excellent Work! :3-

Video posted in first post!

Jason

thats def a cool game unit to have  :3- :3- :3-

Really nice job Yoeddy1 .. :244-  Thanks for the Video... sweet!  :89-

Boy! That machine would on all the time at my house! LOL
It's a pretty neat set up, Yodeddy...thank you so much for showing it to us!  :89-  :3-

Thanks for the comments guys!  Glad you liked the video.

Thanks for commenting on the comments, as I has missed your video the first time around, and K+ for the video.  :3-
It looks like it's well built and a blast to play.  :82- :78-  I like the emblems that you put on the sides.
Just try not to spill your :222- into the cabinet when you're playing!  :97- :97- :97-

Just added NFL Blitz to my cabinet!  One of the best arcade football games of all time!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EgW7sDDM0Ak (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EgW7sDDM0Ak)

Awesome! The opening of the game was as scary as your avatar! lol

I just posted up the latest version of my MAME cabinet in the original post.  Ah heck, I'll post it here too!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=1erImlUsAs0 (http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=1erImlUsAs0)

Thanks,
Jason

OMG!!!  THAT IS SO FRICKIN' AWESOME!!!  UNBELIEVABLE!  WOW!  That brought back some memories too.  I love it!

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i enjoyed building my Mame cabinet inside of a evo, sold it for decent money too and now i am designing another one.

That's one cool machine. Wouldn't mind having one of those.

Nice

Wow that looks so good looking for ideas for my old machine there's hope yet

Wow – that is super cool – and just one more thing to put on my Christmas list!