I just had a thought. Since Darius cabs are pretty hard to come by, maybe I could custom build my own?
I was originally planning on building an arcade cabinet around an NES & making a "Metroid arcade cabinet." However, perhaps I could do this instead. The most obvious issue would be the three-monitor set up...I was thinking maybe I could compensate for this buy using a 50-inch or larger LCD TV & building the cabinet around it. Not the most cost-efficient option (I could just buy a used computer monitor from a thrift store if I were making a conventional cabinet).
After the screen issue is out of the way, there's also the matter of the artwork. I'm fairly certain there aren't decent scans of the cabinet artwork for Darius on the interwebs, and even if there were, I'd have to adjust them to fit the custom cabinet.
With the large TV, computer for running MAME, arcade controls, and having artwork printed out, this could easily run over $1000...Is it worth it? Is it doable?
Its very doable, if you have any wood working skills at all, or know how to have wood cut, get it painted, etc, you could design your own extended two piece cab setup similar to what some games used to use back in the day with the large projection screens. You could house a mini computer inside the main part and use a 15ft vga cable or hdmi cable to give you plenty of cable to work with as far as getting the lcd connected. Making it a two piece will make it detachable and easier to move.
Topic: Darius arcade cabinets in the US? (Read 534 times)
