Home built arcade

My cousin bought a street fighter 2 arcade that was just a shell so it only had the monitor and not the actual game. But it had working lights and even had the logos on the side. He put in a desktop pc with mame and other emulators, installed 4 joysticks with 6 buttons on the 2 middle players and 4 on the outer ones, a track ball, and the first and second player buttons. He even got the coin slots to work. so he just loaded every imaginable ROM onto the PC and now we can play just about any game from old school classics to the new fighter games. Its friggen awesome. Im thinking of making a much simpler one where i just install 4 joysticks to a stand and then have a pc underneath and then i can just wire that to a big screen tv... u know kinda like how the have it set up at the arcades now.

Anyone done any similar projects? I think these kind of things are awesome. Iv heard of people puttin computers inside old nes consoles so that the game slot is actually the cd-rom drive and you can use the joysticks as a mouse.

All you need. :)
http://www.retrosystem.com/nes.shtml

Really? I didn't know cabinet monitors had an output to CRT type video cards.

hey that nintendo site is cool..i got an old nes ..i migth give that a try..oh he had to buy a special video card to hook up the comp to the monitor..he also had to ship the monitor off and get repaired and he also need a specail piece of hardware to map the joystick movements to keystrokes..so u if you want to exit a game you need to press like 3rd player start and 1st player button 1 or some wierd combinations like that