{"id":55,"date":"2015-05-10T11:08:18","date_gmt":"2015-05-10T11:08:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.8bitdreaming.com\/?page_id=55"},"modified":"2025-11-13T07:31:44","modified_gmt":"2025-11-13T07:31:44","slug":"first-cabinet","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.8bitdreaming.com\/?page_id=55","title":{"rendered":"First Cabinet"},"content":{"rendered":"

So my excitement got the better of me and I forgot to take pictures before I started taking it apart, but basically the following set of pictures show the cabinet as it arrived, minus the monitor. The first thing I did was remove the monitor because A <\/strong>– it had a bunch of loose cables and a PCB dangling (literally swinging freely, held only by the connectors) and I had no idea where they belonged, and B<\/strong> – the entire cabinet was a little damp, and when it got inside condensation quickly built up over the glass and internals of it.<\/p>\n

Minus the broken monitor, these pictures pretty much show how it arrived – which considering it had been neglected for ten years, I didn’t think was too bad at all!<\/p>\n

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CLEAN UP AND PARTS INSTALLATION<\/strong><\/p>\n

I wont go into too much detail here about what I did, as it will all be mentioned later, but basically the following was done (not in any particular order!):<\/p>\n

1<\/strong> – Removed the original monitor mountings
\n2<\/strong> – Removed all the wiring for the original JAMMA boards
\n3<\/strong> – Found a 21″ Iiyama CRT monitor on eBay
\n4<\/strong> – Installed a 2.5mm thick shelf for a PC monitor to sit
\n5<\/strong> – Gathered spare PC parts to run the software
\n6<\/strong> – Obtained a USB interface to get input from the original joysticks and buttons
\n7<\/strong> – Wired up joystick and buttons to USB interface
\n8<\/strong> – Stripped the rusted metal parts and respray them
\n9<\/strong> – Found some header artwork online and printed it out
\n10<\/strong> – Installed small fluorescent tube light in header area
\n11<\/strong> – Get the coin slot working
\n12<\/strong> – Installed all the software etc!
\n13<\/strong> – Cleaned off the glass bezel and resprayed it black<\/p>\n

Pictures taken at different stages of development!<\/p>\n

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After changing the graphics several times, this is how the first cabinet looked when I had finished with it:<\/p>\n

\"Final\"<\/a><\/p>\n

Since by this point I had got a second cabinet, I gave this one away to a friend in exchange for money!<\/p>\n

Next: Part 2 – Second Cabinet<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

So my excitement got the better of me and I forgot to take pictures before I started taking it apart, but basically the following set of pictures show the cabinet as it arrived, minus the monitor. The first thing I did was remove the monitor because A – it had a bunch of loose cables […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":50,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-55","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.8bitdreaming.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/55","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.8bitdreaming.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.8bitdreaming.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.8bitdreaming.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.8bitdreaming.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=55"}],"version-history":[{"count":32,"href":"https:\/\/www.8bitdreaming.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/55\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":420,"href":"https:\/\/www.8bitdreaming.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/55\/revisions\/420"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.8bitdreaming.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/50"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.8bitdreaming.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=55"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}