Finished..

...I think, i might add some more stickers soon. I also added a button to turn off the marquee light. Power button at the side to turn on/off. Boots straight to front end, Yellow button at front for insert coin, Arcade games now have a pause button, and a cheat button. No mouse or keyboard, everything can be selected with the joysticks/buttons. I ended up with 645 games on 3 systems by carefully researching the popular ones although there are almost 8000 games on it, but it's no fun looking for a game you like through a list of 7000. It also has Commodore Amiga, Nintendo 64, with all the games, but this would require Analog pads and mouse/keyboard to get full use outta them ,which I have but I didn't want stuff sticking out of it, Also has a Mame GUI with 6000 games.

Inside

This was before I tidied it up a little...

Software

The operating system is Windows 7, J2K, which is a key to joystick mapper autostarts first, followed by Maximus Arcade frontend this is delayed by a program delayer. When an arcade game is selected Maximus Arcade then starts Mame which starts the selected game, Zsnes for super Nintendo, and Fusion64 for Sega Megadrive.

New Computer

I decided to build a new PC to run this. I didn't want to put an i7 ,GTX780ti in there or anything so I went with AMD's new AM1 platform, runs really well, plays Skyrim and Minecraft. and runs all the Arcade machines really well, which means I can add Sega Model 2, Nintendo 64 etc..And it plays Crysis 3 on maximum. Well that last one was a joke but not bad for an €80 PC.

Pause Button

Old arcade machines didn't have pause buttons for obvious reasons, one could spend hours on a game for 10p, complete with a queue of annoyed kids waiting to play behind him. However I can't do anything without being disturbed for more than 30 seconds, so after much thought, and against much of what old arcade machines are about, I put one in.

Control Panel Wiring

I really must get some different colour wires next time, any mistakes are hard to put right. All wired to USB control board with a common ground. Now i gotta tidy everything up.