I bought a 19" LCD monitor to use with my PS3, I made sure I got one with DVI so I could use a DVI-HDMI cable. I didn't know that there was an analogue DVI as well, I just thought DVI stood for Digital Video Interface, lesson learned. It sat around for about 3 months collecting dust. Having already Mame'd an old arcade cabinet a few years ago I decided to have a go at making a bartop.
I began researching and came across Weecade, there were plans on the site which I modified to fit a 19" monitor and 2X6 button controls, so my cabinet ended up a little taller, wider and deeper. I bought a 3.2ghz P4 and motherboard to suit, 2gb ram, I already had a 170gb and 200gb SATA hard drives, I found an old CoolerMaster gaming tower in a hard rubbish collection which I ganked the fans and video card out of.
I then ordered 2x Sanwa joysticks, a heap of pushbuttons/microswitches and an Ultimarc Ipac2 keyboard encoder from Ozstick. The fun had begun.
