Candy Cabinet made from scratch with wood?

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yes it’ll be cheaper but unless you’re a wiz with wood, the savings on labor alone makes the authentic product worth it.

BTW, when you tate a CRT monitor, the coloring goes totally whack. Degaussing resets the monitor to proper colors. has nothing to do with speakers.

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Thanks everyone for sharing those useful tips and info

Keep em coming anyway!!

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I think it can be cheaper to build it yourself…however, I think it depends on how much stuff you have on hand and what sort of a build you plan on doing. Back when I built my first cab, there were a lot of things that I already had on hand like access to woodworking tools, a computer to run Mame off of, and other knick-knacky things but there were a lot of items that I had to buy that quickly added up; 27" TV with S-vid, Ipac4, sanwa buttons and sticks for 4 players, a huge sheet of lexan for the control panel, a crapload of MDF, weird hardware like a slot cutter for T-molding and bits for drilling button holes. After adding all that (and more), I’m quite certain I could have purchased an Astro City and had it shipped to my front door…however I didn’t really know about candies at the time.
I know it can be done cheaper…just beware! These projects can suck you dry if you aren’t careful.

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^ So when are we gonna see a candy cab made by you?? Don’t keep me in suspense!!! lol

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Very useful, I’ll keep that in mind - you made it for 4 players, and all Sanwa x 4 can get very expensive, if I use only 2 players (or maybe just 1 player) with Sanwa it will be cheaper… I’m just planning to make a mini/cute cab like the one showed before.
Thanks again!

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Just find this about rotating TV’s

Source: http://shmups.system11.org/viewtopic.php?t=7715
Great site, I’m learning a lot.

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how to discharge a monitor

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brokenhalo

Great, thanks… we’re filling this thread with important resources - keep it up

Today I managed to tate my 15" TV and it worked right - Under Defeat is way cooler when played fullscreen

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As usual, I have a new question (or petition) - hope you can help me here

Does anyone here who owns a candy cabinet can measure his cab for me? Like very detailed dimensions, not only H x W x D… The only arcade local here that has candy cabinets (that aren’t really japanese candy cabs… maybe some chinese cab) is owned by a angry woman, who is a bitch. I’m going there now though, maybe I’m lucky. I’ll let you guys now how it was.

But please, someone help me :slight_smile:

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Here is a small pic of the Vewlix panel:

http://www.akihabarashop.jp/misc/Vewlixpanel2J14B.png

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Thanks TRNG…

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Vewlix Panel:
http://www.akihabarashop.jp/misc/VewlixPanel.jpg

It holds:
JLF-TP-8Y-SK (White balltop)
OBSF-30`s (White)
OBSF-24 (White)

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That was really fast - thanks dude

This will come very handy for those planing to make one of these

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But seriusly, nobody here owns a candy cab? I think I really need those dimensions, please!

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Hey just to keep your guys mouth watering check this thread out. This guy decided to make a lindberg style cab out of wood it’s coming out really nice.

http://www.laakira.com/GC2_Build_v006.jpg

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That’s pretty bomb. I am thinking of making a cabinet out of wood too which would have a rotating monitor support as well as I play tate shooters as well as fighting games. I’m curious how those double sided cabinets work, like in the case of the Sega cabs they use in SBO. Do they need two copies of the game inside, or is the signal just split for the video?

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That’s really crazy… mouth watering for sure !! :amazed:

Don’t let this thread to be buried down a thousands pages on the forum!! :looney:

edit: it’s pure madness… and the hq photos are impressive… they worth much more than dinosarullions of words…

btw, this is the kind of measurements I’m looking for:

http://www.laakira.com/GC2_Sketch_v001.jpg

if you have any kind of candy cab, please share measurements like these!!

thanks for the info :wgrin:

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I’m not sure exactly but I’m pretty sure the signal and controls are just split between two boards. If you go to the Post your SF set up thread here in tech talk one of our members has 3 sega versus cabs I forgot his name but you can ask him there

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i would approach it by using one console, split the video signal, and each side get 1 controller. i don’t think those versus cities use two boards.

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IIRC, Versus City cabs use only 1 board shared between two sets of screens and controls.