SMW Family : home of Stu, Stacy and Sophia

arcade blog

This page will chronicle my ambitious ambition to ambitiously transform an old coin-op arcade machine into a state-of-the-art PC Based mult-game arcade/DVR/CD Archive/DVD Burner Multimedia Hotbed of Technology.

Phases:

read project plan »

phases

completion

Controller
100%

Cabinet Renovation
65%

PC Creation
100%

Hardware Test
100%

PC / Cabinet Merger
80%

TOTAL
89%

usefull related links:

mame
what got me started
ultimarc
controller boards
happ
OEM arcade hardware
classic arcade grafix
cabinet art
arcadecontrols.com
inspiration and advice
slikstik
more inspiration
mame32
a great windows version of mame
xnews a free newsgroup reader, great for alt.binaries.emulators.mame

03/19/04
1) target of my affections

This is the old Konami "ALIENS" arcade machine I intend to restore and rebuild. I bought off eBay for $100.

Here is the machine in our basement. Its not in bad shape, it just needs to be cleaned up a bit.

Closeup of the controls. Mine will have 6 buttons per joystick plus have a track-ball in the middle.

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