Specs and

Features

As the name implies, this is really just another MAME machine. Pretty much everything I did has been done before (and shown on the Internet), so I won't go into ridiculous detail on how I set mine up. Still, I found all those other MAME cab sites extremely useful, so here's some info that might help others finish their projects.
Cabinet:

Brought home as a badly modified and thoroughly abused Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles game.

Monitor:

25" standard arcade monitor, nice and bright with no burn-in!
Computer:

Recently upgraded to an AMD Athlon 1800+ box with 256 mb RAM and 40 gb disk. She's pretty quick now! I'm also testing an ArcadeVGA card from Ultimarc, but I still have my old ATI 8mb workhorse.
Software:

DOS 7 (Win 98SE, does not boot into GUI automatically), Advance MAME, Advance Menu frontend. I've been playing with MAMEWah on Windows now that I have a faster box, but my configuration is not quite there yet.
Controls:

2 Happ "Super" joysticks, 1 and 2 player start buttons, 6 black buttons per player, 4 blue "mouse" buttons (ambidextrous), side buttons (for video pinball), Happ 3" trackball, Oscar spinner.
Interface Hardware:

"J-Pac" and "Opti-Pac" from Andy Warne at Ultimarc.com. These are designed specifically for this purpose and they work flawlessly - totally great products! Arrived in 1 week, all the way from England.

Sound System:

Creative PC subwoofer/amp (mounted in cabinet bottom), 2 6" co-axial speakers (behind marquee), custom external volume knob mounted on the left-top of the cabinet just over and behind the marquee.
Custom Graphics:

Large format inkjet, printed at a local sign shop, WOW Multimedia.

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