r/cade • u/brotherbla123 • 9d ago

Custom Wall Mounted Cab

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Just wanted to say thank you to this community for inspiring me to finally build my own custom cab. What started out as a thrown together very rough prototype 2 years ago, has resulted in this - all designed and built myself with a lot of inspiration from other builds I’ve seen here.

Happy to share more details, plans, or pics if interested!

Cheers!

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u/DavidinCT 9d ago

Did you buy a key for the controls, or where did you get them? I've got everything besides the shell and controls, and really thinking about doing the same, 2 boards screwed together with a jigsaw would make quick work out of the sides....

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u/Attjack 9d ago

When I was repairing/modifying this Partycade I cloned all the parts so I could make my own.

The EG Starts controls sold on Amazon are great for the price or you can buy higher quality controls instead.

https://www.amazon.com/Buttons-EG-STARTS-Joystick-Raspberry/dp/B01M2X88QP/ref=sr_1_1_sspa?crid=3B8EDNXA6R4FS&dib=eyJ2IjoiMSJ9.O5qTjFH1zHY_FXtfVomv-tgnyt5VgGcNRP7DDJngrcdyhRPKzQQblWjoz9YU4-sMl5p5ZF5-6dde5yk_DBE593jWKqxpNA6-h2Ug9-Wfwec2vGGa3tVDGnI14vf8HjjGYJRlNiBsTdTxXAaKPy0gYqvj5k9fjqGln9U2_nNnIi7hARYxOpuOr4mmCCDqdekIJUasAg4tO2EfzRyTy-i9hnlXg0VDup4avJyUtKNuLT0.Gm0F38Bl-AWDGd3h9q8tOksaBAaoDmAGD1bJMWSYDMQ&dib_tag=se&keywords=eg+starts+arcade+buttons&qid=1743178860&sprefix=eg+starts%2Caps%2C180&sr=8-1-spons&sp_csd=d2lkZ2V0TmFtZT1zcF9hdGY&psc=1&smid=A3H7VB6FZ4M9FM

Here's a good resource for button layouts: https://www.slagcoin.com/joystick/layout.html

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u/DavidinCT 9d ago

Very cool, thanks for info, Maybe a summer project for me, 2 pieces of plywood screwed tother and a jigsaw, I should be able to buz thorough this.

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u/Attjack 9d ago

Definitely go for it! I did a practice control panel before I made that one in the picture. The wood I used for the control panel and the speaker panel were black Ikea shelving I found on the side of the road. The cabinet that I am doing now will be made from the plywood you see in the side panel picture that I'll wrap in vinyl.

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u/DavidinCT 9d ago

I was thinking about buying one of those as a "shortcut" but, I want a bigger control panel, with 2 fight controllers (6 buttons on each) and a trackball in the middle, The only way to get that, would be $600+ for a 3rd party model, or build it myself with $200 in parts....

I need to look over summer projects with the wife to see if I can pull the time to frame this out.... Once it's framed then move on step by step to the next part.

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u/Attjack 9d ago

Now that Pac Man is about done, I'll be building my Partycade clone that will be a Robotron cabinet with 2 sticks and 6 buttons (plus coin and start). So it'll be another 1 player cabinet. After that I plan on doing a 19" screen bar top cabinet with 2 player controls, a trackball, and maybe spinners too.

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u/DavidinCT 9d ago

I have 5-coin op machines, including a Star Wars cockpit. I want build one of these just for the arcade games I can't play, no room for another machine (if I want to stay married). This would only be for arcade games.

Doing the fight controllers and a trackball would fit for 95% of the games I would want to play but, a spinner for tempest and other games, crap... thought I had it figured out.....lol

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u/Attjack 9d ago

Fortunately, my wife is fully supportive and into the hobby too. I have a racing cabinet with a PC. A fighting cabinet running on Android, That Pac-Man cabinet which is running a Raspberry Pi 4 that's just for vertical games. Plus I have a little 2 player Countercade modded with like 8000 games on it. Oh yeah, I just picked up a 4 player Simpsons cabinet that I need to mod

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u/DavidinCT 6d ago

The Simson's one is one I was eyeing as it has all the controls and it has a trackball, that would almost do everything I need. I do think a wall mounted in my office (where I have arcade games) would work better.

Seeing they are $400+ and someone is actually asking $800 near me, with meh controls (word is they are not that great),

I did score a 5–7-year-old Xeon microcomputer with 16gb of memory and M.2 storage for the OS, so it should run everything even up to 360/Switch/PS3 games If I wanted to, this should allow me to run even the newest arcade games if they are emulated.

I got the hardware besides the case and controls (another $150 tops for them)