Mikes Neo Geo MAME Cabinet freemansgarage. My Neo Geo Mame Cabinet. Here is my MAME cabinet conversion made from a Neo Geo MVS cabinet. MAME Multiple Arcade Machine Emulator is an excellent arcade emulator that will emulate the hardware of many arcade games perfectly. It will play almost all arcade games on a relatively low end PC. If you grew up in the 8. I did, you will remember the local arcades and all those quarters you lost in games like. Download Kantronics All Mode Manual Software' title='Download Kantronics All Mode Manual Software' />Galaga. Well here is a chance to have all those games on one machine in your own home. My cabinet is an old NEO GEO MVS cabinet made by SNK that I paid 1. US for last month from a local arcade that was closing its doors. It was complete with a working 2. It was important for me to buy a cabinet that had a working monitor because I wanted the real experience that is hard to obtain using a PC monitor. The control panel where the buttons and joystick are was not too important when selecting a cabinet because I was willing to add buttons and update it to the modern configuration. Check out Craigslist, Ebay, and your local arcades to find a cheap unwanted cabinet. Make sure to check out the Build Your Own Arcade Controls Web site for excellent tips and help from the experts. SOFTWARE. I installed Windows XP on my cabinet PC. I installed all software on the PC before I mounted it into the cabinet because it was much easier this way. The Kantronics original KAM Kantronics All Mode was a global revolution in digital communication. In Kantronics tradition, the KAM Plus evolved through customer. Videos of the cabinet are at the bottom. CABINETHere is the inside of the cabinet. You can see the monitor on the top, the original NEO GEO arcade board mounted on the side, and the power supply in on the bottom. I removed the power supply and the NEO GEO board since they will not be needed for the MAME conversion. Here is the original control panel. Its not too bad but it does need two additional buttons for each player. TNC+Types+There+are+4+major+vendors+of+TNCs+Kantronics+MFJ.jpg' alt='Download Kantronics All Mode Manual Software' title='Download Kantronics All Mode Manual Software' />XPWare for Windows is now FREEWARE. You can go to http and download the program and the. The extra buttons are needed to play any of the modern fighter games Like Street Fighter or Killer Instinct. I used a 1. 1. 25 inch diameter hole saw to cut the additional holes in the console. This NEO GEO console is made steel plate and not MDF. I had to make sure the hole saw was a bi metal type that is made for steel cutting. Cost 9. USDrilling the hole can be tricky. If you are not perfectly parallel to the console surface, the hole saw will bite the Plexiglas too much and crack it like it did to me. I had to go slow and level and the rest of the holes turned out fine. One tip I was emailed about said to run the drill in reverse while cutting into plexiglass. Reverse will cut just fine and not grab and crack the plexiglass. Once through the plexyglass, switch the drill into forward mode to cut the steel plate. I have not tried this but I think its a great idea. I ordered extra buttons from HAPP CONTROLS which arrived promptly. My finished buttons ended up with a slight slant configuration due to the original button layout. It looks good to me. Hooking up the buttons to the system is covered in the hardware section. MONITORMy monitor is a Wells Garner 2. K7. 19. 5 2. 5 CGA Monitor. These are neither a TV nor a PC Monitor. They require a 5 volt 1. Khz signal and you can not just connect a PC to this monitor without some help. A PC will output 1 volt 3. Khz and will destroy one of these arcade monitors in a very short time. There are some options to get around this. You can buy a special arcade video card called Arcade. VGA from Andy Warne. This works perfect and is the plug in and forget solution. Cost 9. 0USYou can use a modern video card and download Soft. Khz which will configure your drivers to output the special 1. Khz signals. Not compatible with all video cards. Requires installation and possible tinkering. Works perfect when setup correctly. Installshield 2011 Limited Edition on this page. Cost Free again this is an excellent piece of softwareI went with my existing ATI X8. XT video card and downloaded Soft. Khz for free. This ended up working perfect and was very easy to setup. Here is a excellent forum post on how to set up Soft. Khz to work with your video card. Soft. 15khz Wiki for additional info. List of Compatable Video Cards with Soft. Video Card List. HARDWAREI had an ASUS motherboard laying around with a AMD 6. CPU and 1 gig of RAM. This is overkill for this project but thats what I had available. A 2. 0Gig Hard Drive and a ATI X8. XT video card were in my junk box of CPU parts so I used those as well. Any PC at 1. Ghz with 5. Mb ram will run everything nicely. Any 2. D video card will work. There is no need to buy a high end DX1. MAME does not access any of the 3. D architecture in a video card. Sound I just used the onboard sound card. You can not power the cabinet speakers from the output on the sound card. I ordered a cheap set of Logitech S 2. Multimedia Speaker System from Newegg for about 2. US. It came with two small speakers and a small sub woofer. I removed the cabinet speakers and replaced them with these. I used stick on Velcro to secure them to the cabinet wood. The sub woofer just sits in the bottom of the cabinet. They sound great and the bass will thump nicely during a Mortal Kombat 3 fight. I placed the volume control came with the speakers just inside the coin door so I can easily adjust the volume while playing. General Layout of Hardware. Most of the hardware normally in an arcade cabinet uses the cabinets power supply for power but I removed that earlier. The Monitor does not use the power supply and was powered from normal 1. AC. You can see in the picture above right below the subwoofer is a isolation transformer for the monitor. The white and green wires are seen below that and are plugged into the power strip. This was the original plug for the cabinet but I shortened it so it would fit better inside. The PC and speakers also need a normal 1. Volt source but its very inconvenient to have 3 separate power cords to run the new cabinet. Software Cakewalk Pro Audio 9 Full Version. The solution is a cheap Wal Mart power strip. I wired a toggle switch inline with the power strips cord and plugged the PC, speakers, and the original arcade power cord into the power strip. Now there is one cord to plug in and one power switch just like the real thing. Click here for a detailed photo of the power setup. The next problem is connecting the control panel and the arcade monitor to the PC. The cabinet is wired with a JAMMA connector. JAMMA connectors are very common and are the standard for wiring a cabinet. The solution is the J PAC made by Ultimarc. The J PAC is an excellent piece of hardware that will seamlessly connect a PC to a JAMMA wired cabinet. If your cabinet is not wired with the standard JAMMA, Ultimarc also sells the I PAC which is almost identical except you run all your own wires straight to the connectors on the I PAC. Both ship with all the cables, programs, and instructions. How To Soften Sugar Cubes here. MAME uses the keyboard for all functions including joystick control and buttons. The J PAC will emulate the PC keyboard and you can program it with this free program utility to use any keys you want. I found the default settings right out of the box to work perfect. The monitor will also connect right up to the J PAC which will amplify the 1 volt PC video signal up to 5 volts for the arcade monitor. The J PAC also will split any 3. Khz signal from the PC into two 1. Khz signals. This will allow you to see the boot up screen from the PC and will prevent any dangerous 3. Khz signals from getting to the monitor. I installed the PC right where the old NEO GEO board was installed. The Hard drive is stuck to the cabinet wall with double sided tape. The cables are all connected accordingly and the J PAC is connected per the instructions. Most cabinets have a hinged control panel that allows easy access to the buttons wiring.