Jay's

Cabinet

Below I have listed several links that may be helpful in your cab building endeavors.

Emulators running on my Arcade Classics machine.

Arcade emulator MAME

Arcade emulator Model 2

Arcade Laserdisc emulator Daphne

Atari 2600 Stella

Nintendo emulator JNES

Super Nintendo emulator ZSNES

Nintendo 64 emulator Project 64

Game Boy Advance emulator Visual Boy Advance

Sega Genesis emulator GENS

Pinball emulator Visual Pinball

Pinball emulator Visual Pinmame

Dance Dance Revolution like software Stepmania

DOS Emulator for those old DOS games DOSBox

Front end software.

GameEx

GameEx Themes Night's GameEx Themes Site

Cabinets, cabinet plans and helpful links.

Build your own arcade controls B.Y.O.A.C.

Arcade Classics was based on the AP3 at Arcade Paradise  (Archive Link)

Check out the awesome Neon Mame at Knievel Kustoms

Arcade Classics uses a 21" monitor, however it was originally going to sport a TV.

Check this site out for TV options for your cab. http://ruel.net/pc/tv.tuner.converter.htm

How to build a mini cab at Minimame

Tons of plans for vintage cabs at Jakobud

Cabinet Parts and Parts Distributors

Happ joysticks, buttons, trackballs, etc. Happ Controls

Ultimarc joysticks, keyboard controllers, etc Ultimarc

Home of the Keywiz keyboard controller and lots of other cool stuff Groovygamegear

R.I.P. Oscar Controls This site is a mirror, do not try to buy anything here.

Keyboard Encoders by Hagstrom Electronics

Computer MOD lighting (LEDs and Cold Cathodes) Xoxide

More lighting solutions XPCGear

Distributor and manufacturer of arcade and pinball games and game parts Arcade Shop Amusements

Coin-op Arcade Game Parts Mikes Arcade

Great Speaker Grilles at Mikes Arcade Midway 6x9 speaker cover

Light Gun Site LCD Topgun

If you want to buy a cabinet kit or plans visit Mameroom Designs

Premade CPs and Cabs, also spinners and joystick handles at Slickstick

The Real Bob Roberts Arcade Game Parts

Need an easy way to turn everything off and on? Try Bits Ltd.

Marquees made to order MAMEMarquees

More ready made marquees at EMDKAY

Even more Marquees at Arcadeoverlays

Software related help

GameEx Configuration Adultery's ConfigHQ

Learn how to compile your own copy of MAME at Mr Do's Arcade Page

Nintendo 64 Emulation Support Center

The largest MAME resource on the net Mameworld

The Absolute reference catalogue of arcade emulation software Caesar

Artwork sites

Wallpapers and backgrounds http://www.mameworld.net/massive/FX/

Marquees, logos, CP art, backgrounds at Oscar controls

Lots of cool Background Images The Sigul of Slateman

Arcade Graphics in vector format at VectorLib

Classic Arcade Gaming Art CAGA Tons of classic marquees, CPs, sideart, etc.

 Video game fonts (among other game stuff) The Claw's Game Zone

Other software you may need

A tool for remapping keystrokes in those hard to configure emulators AutoHotKey

Heres another good scripting tool AutoIt v3

A tool for mapping keystrokes to gamepads XPAdder

A simple tool from BYOAC that detects keystrokes that can be invaluable to the CP Builder KEYHOOK.ZIP

Need video snapshots? Try EmuMovies

Icons? MAMu's MAMEICONS

Snapshots, box scans, cartridge scans at Screenshot archive

Feeling lonely with your one cab arcade? Try some tracks from Arcade Ambience in GameEx and you'll feel like your in a real arcade. (At least it will sound like it).

Get game manuals at Replacementdocs

GameEx Community Members

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