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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Narc0lep5y" data-source="post: 291546" data-attributes="member: 5223"><p>For someone who's been building their machine for the past year+ (and al....most done) if I had to do something as cheap as possible I'd skip the cabinet and go with something that just uses a vertical monitor or 2 monitors.  Maybe even a PC set up with a rotating monitor mount for the playfield and a fixed second monitor mounted above it.  And then use an arcade stick with side buttons for controls and make it a multi use setup.   Once you start with the full machine it's a slippery slope to perfection and you'll have to make a compromise on just about any of the prebuilt systems out there.  There's just so many individual choices to make with parts that I wouldn't even use cheap in the discussion.  I started with a virtuapin flat pack mini shell and thought i could build my own for less than their mini system at $3K.  Well, that budget got blown out of the water quickly and while some of my components are slightly better (4k, 16:10 backglass, different plunger system, SSF) than the off the rack system, I don't know if the labor I had to put into it with assembly and paint and wiring is worth the extra that I've spent and the amount of time I had to spend on it.</p></blockquote><p></p>

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