Well isn't this a sorry sight, my arcade cabinet has been going over some drastic changes over the past few months from PC replacements to slight hardware tweaks such as extra hard drives. Saying that it hasn't gone to well as the PC has never been working a 100% with it often taking 10 minutes of faffing around to get it to boot. So over Christmas I was generously given this old PC that was unwanted from a friend, the specs are as follows:

Not a huge amount of progress as not much needs to be done really apart from the software side of things but here's a little update for you all. I've fixed the front draw which fell off during the cabinet's second coat of coloured paint and I've added some cardboard to go around the monitor so you cannot see it through the plexi-glass. After playing on the cabinet for a few hours it tends to get a bit painful on the legs so I went about buying myself 2 awesome barstools (see the images below). I've not had any problems with the unit yet and I'm really impressed on how well the speakers work considering they were dirt cheap ones from Argos, I think the cabinet might be amplifying the bass slightly but it still sounds awesome! There isn't much left to be done apart from the graphical side of things such as some stickers and my desperate search for a hi-res Marquee. I've setup the front-end of the cabinet slightly using Hyperspin but I need to download the game themes and find some extra space on my HDDs for extra roms. For now check out the following pictures and I will keep you all updated: