It just dawned on me today that I never posted pictures of my finished MAME cab! So here are two of them, from different angles:





It took a little over a month to build the cab from start to finish, much of that time being spent trying to be thrifty when buying parts. The total cost came to $406.13, which ends up being $6.13 over budget :)

After having it now for a few months, there are a couple of things I may change when I get the time. For one, the monitor is pretty small. It's still definitely big enough to see things just fine, but I would love to get a 19in. true arcade monitor in there. The other thing I'd do is either build or buy a new control panel. I'd like to have a larger one with tons of admin buttons, as well as a slide-out keyboard tray.

It was a blast building one of these, and for those of you out there that are considering building your own, by all means go for it. It's not all that hard, and thanks to the incredible community over at BYOAC I was able to quickly get help whenever I got stuck.