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Great games became classics with a little help from their captivating branding & design. Harness your artistic skills to enhance the appearance of your cab, and make your very good cabinet into something very great. Here you'll find articles on design, printing, and techniques to add visual interest to your cabinet.  
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Great games became classics with a little help from their captivating branding & design. Here you'll find articles on design, printing, and techniques that will add visual interest to your cabinet. Harness your artistic skills to enhance the appearance of your cab, and make your very good cabinet into something very great.  
 
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Revision as of 00:40, 2 March 2006

The Basics

A lot of people will look at an arcade cabinet and say "Hey, that looks easy- it's just a screen, some wood and some buttons.", but arcade cabinets aren't quite as simple as many people think. Here's a good place to start learning about the various ins and outs of arcade machines in general.

Building Materials

If you're planing on building an arcade cabinet from scratch, these are some of the materials you might end up using for various elements of the cabinet.

Tools

Building your own arcade machine is no simple task and requires the correct tools as well as the knowledge of how to use each one correctly and safely. Hopefully you already own some of these tools and are well versed in their operation. If not, here's a few things you might want to add to your shopping list.

Arcade Art

Great games became classics with a little help from their captivating branding & design. Here you'll find articles on design, printing, and techniques that will add visual interest to your cabinet. Harness your artistic skills to enhance the appearance of your cab, and make your very good cabinet into something very great.

Arcade Control Hardware

Here's the reason most people enter this hobby; to play the games you love with actual arcade hardware, just as they were intended. There's a vast array of different controls out there...

Interfacing Controls With Your PC

Hooking up various arcade controls to a home PC can be a daunting task. Here are some of your options...

Video

Software

Miscellaneous (for now?)