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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

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little bit of help setting up my saw guide

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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.

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

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Glue n screw, glue n screw.

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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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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

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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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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.

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