Weeeeee! I've now got my X-arcade stick all setup and ready for some classic arcade gaming after my brother picked it up from eBay. A fair amount has changed since the second article but not much that is noticeable. First off I went about measuring a shelve for the X-Arcade stick to sit on without sliding all over the place, this was fairly simple and was just a case of making to mounting pieces attached to each side of the unit then adding a bridge to work as the shelve. Keep reading to see what problems I encountered:

My first playable layout with everything working just about, it took a good few hours to get everything working as the PC decided to go a little crazy and not accept the X-Arcade stick along with some hangs at boot-up. I finally got all that sorted and have changed the computer components slightly so now everything is working a 100% and is ready for the big time. Here is a few changes:

• Removed my ATI 9200 card and added ATI X1950XTX
• Removed the whole motherboard and placed little risers onto the case for the cards to sit flush with the motherboard
• Added a new sound card as the front port is having some major issues (need to use a hammer to get sound) and the back port is dead.
• Cleaned up some of the cables to give the CPU more breathing room
• Added another 40GB hard drive

Finally a quick picture of how it's looking with the shelve and verything in place.