STAINLESS Mortal Kombat 11 Arcade Build

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Decided to have a crack at building a BigBox based arcade cabinet.

Will be running PC, Mame and consoles. Not looking at putting 400,000,000 roms, just around 50-100 of the best for each system.

Going with MK11 theme, artwork by https://www.mk-arcade-restore.com

 

Layout paper templates

little bit of help setting up my saw guide

Side panels

Control panel coming together

Now I did have an issue with the CPO being missprinted, you can see a white stipe along the top that should not be there, and too much image being cut off at the bottom. I let them know at https://www.mk-arcade-restore.com and they immediately reprinted it and sent a new one. Very impressed with that.

Hired help at work once again, laying the re-printed artwork.

Glue n screw, glue n screw.

 

Mounting the pc with the front of the case exposed, so i have full access to the power/reset, usb and optical drives.

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A bit more artwork on the control panel

Monitor mount

 

 

Edited August 13, 2019 by STAINLESS

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Some more artwork and a bit of paint

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Where I'm at today

[Rincewind]

Looks fantastic, almost there by the looks of it. Are you going for an illuminated perspex graphic for the marquee or full on LCD monitor?

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59 minutes ago, Rincewind said:

Looks fantastic, almost there by the looks of it. Are you going for an illuminated perspex graphic for the marquee or full on LCD monitor?

thanks ?

just goin the backlit marquee, please dont put ideas in my head haha.

[Rincewind]

HAHA same here that's what I ended up doing..... but the idea always remains in your head

[Alltattedup]

This is awesome!  Thanks for posting.

[Guidope]

Wow very nice!

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Just trying to find the time now to finish wiring everything up.

with 3 kids, by the time i get to sit down after work it's bed time ?

 

[ItchyRobot]

Damn son, you are not a half-asser are you? Looks great!

Can you explain your reasoning for the button layout? Does it help when playing console games? I was thinking about using my arcade buttons/stick for console games, but ended up opting for an Xbox One joystick since it makes hitting the left/right bumpers more natural.

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On 9/5/2019 at 5:36 AM, ItchyRobot said:

Damn son, you are not a half-asser are you? Looks great!

Can you explain your reasoning for the button layout? Does it help when playing console games? I was thinking about using my arcade buttons/stick for console games, but ended up opting for an Xbox One joystick since it makes hitting the left/right bumpers more natural.

Thanks man.

As for the button layout, it works for the 5 button cross format for mortal kombat with the run button at your thumb.

the last 6 buttons also work for the street fighters.

 

But if your asking about why i have what button where, it was purely for Mortal Kombat 11, but I changed my mind and now need to print little stickers to stick over the button labels.

its now

LB, X, Y, RB

LT, A, B, RT

Edited October 8, 2019 by STAINLESS

[andyco47]

no spinner or trak ball? pal for arcade stuff

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On 10/9/2019 at 6:40 AM, andyco47 said:

no spinner or trak ball? pal for arcade stuff

nah

[lemoncadebay]

love it! Hopefully we'll get to see a completion video

[xaryC]

Very Nice work!

I build a mk3 cabinet some years ago and I was wondering where you got the templates from? Seems much easier than what I did I measured all the dimensions from a worn dedicated mk2 cabinet.

I would like to make a new one once again and tamplates like that would come in very handy

Do you know if these dimensions are the same as the dedicated mk cabinets?

 

thanks in advance

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sorry for late reply.

i started with these

https://www.classicarcadecabinets.com/mortal-kombat-2.html

[mtockane]

Awesome build! Have you tried using your machine for older MK games, just wondering due to the way your buttons are laid out.

Also, what size screen did you go with? 

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Thanks

its a 27" 16:10 monitor. kinda regret the 16:10 as it died a little wile ago and soooo hard to replace these days. ended up buying parts and fixing it.
and yer i have ran all the old mk games, button layout deliberately has the X pattern for them and the run button under thumb.
also works beautiful for 6 button fighters.

[mtockane]

Thanks for the reply. I had a 16:10 for a while as well but it had problems starting up or would turn off randomly but I loved the extra vertical space. Did you use a template for your button layout?

Edited October 16, 2020 by mtockane