Taking the Plunge
Due in large part to the nice folks over the Arcade Control Forum, we decided we needed a real pinball plunger. I was reading about John’s Retro Arcade pinball plunger […]
Jingle…Jangle…Clink
The sound of a coin dropping into an arcade machine is unmistakable. When the Cowboy Arcade project began, I decided not to put a working coin mechanism into the cabinet. […]
Let There Be Light
We decided some ambient lighting would be cool. A little research brought us to LEDGlow. We selected the expandable orange 4 pc. interior kit and got 2 sets. Each set […]
The Best Laid Plans…
are often changed several times. I spent some more time working on the side art and realized that I was not happy with the way the shape of the cabinet […]
Hey Mr. Postman, Bring Me a Dream
Or a hard drive. A hard drive loaded with emulators, frontends, ROM images, video previews, artwork, etc. Oh Boy! Sir Nick at ROMCollector.com hooked us up. Now the fun part. […]
Sound II
The Logitech Z-2300 2.1 Speaker system arrived and I immediately dismantled it. Turns out that this system is going to work perfectly! The satellite speakers have removable grills held in […]
The Plan….
I am an engineer. BFG is an idea guy. We have been discussing this cab build on training runs (we are both training for a spring marathon), over lunch, on […]
Control is an Illusion
In life, control is an illusion, but in an arcade cab it is the key that unlocks all the doors. After reading about a thousand threads on ArcadeControls.com and studying […]
The Sound of Fury
Any MAME project worth it’s salt needs a good sound system to faithfully (if not a little louder) reproduce the wonderful sounds that are so much a part of the […]
My Kingdom for a Box
The clever among you may have noticed a significant difference in the side panel art between the Flame design and the Cowboy arcade design. If you are not clever, goo […]