That's DMP's 2012 Dodge Challenger that has been upgraded with the Sports package, exhaust, better stereo and a bunch more. It's a really sweet ride!

Centipede was already converted to Capcom Bowling before we bought it. The artwork was beyond repair.

With the popularity of arcade 1up machines this shows how much cooler it is to make your own. This might be my new project after I turn 40 next month. Yours came out awesome! I saw you used the x arcade control boards which are good quality and affordable too.

LIke I mentioned previously... my wife says I have room for one...count 'em: ONE stand up arcade machine. This $35 machine is the one I decided to turn into a MAME machine. It's not rare, or hard to find locally...and honestly, it gets way more use now than as a dedicated Centipede machine in my house.

A day before I released the most recent episode I went over to a friend's house who has the same Centipede cab to shoot the coin insert used in said episode. He's doing the same thing, converting it into a MAME thing. He said the front end was 200 GB alone. He showed it to me and it was cool. Not many ROMs, etc installed yet. His emulators had some v-sync issues but the front end was really smooth. Anyway I'm gonna show him this video and I won't even charge you for the extra view! :)

LOL the intro was awesome, I think you guys did an excellent job on it so far, would love to have a MAME machine sometime myself.

No trackball.. how are you gonna play capcom bowling? :P

When I was a kid, I fancied having a Street Fighter 2 arcade macine at my home. I even had dreams about it. Was it only I or have you had such dreams, too?

I'm not worried about the arcade purists, as we host a lot of parties at my house...and at some point BEER will be knocked over and spilled on this machine. It's the GAME CONSOLES that I get really anal about!

Paul just doesn't have the room in his house...but he LOVES to build things, so he jumped at the chance. Plus, he's over at my house all the time, so he'll get the benefits from it too.

DMP was absolutely hilarious in this episode, haha. Anyway, glad to see the machine turned out well! That HyperSpin front-end especially looks very, very slick.

I'm starting to think that DMP is like the ultimate friend to have. Cooks, handy with tools, only needs a steady supply of alcohol? Hell yeah!

the centipede artwork was great why did u strip it?? could have left it on their!

Why am I only seeing this now???? Great stuff!!! Oh yeah, I am so jealous the access you have to all the micro brews.

So exited! I managed to get an old golden tee cabinet that was modded with joysticks! So my ipac board actually works with original arcade joysticks!

Still the best MJR episode. I miss Drunken Paul on the channel

Actually we joke about drinking and being drunk, but we maybe had 3 beers over the entire day. You can rest assured we both came away with all our appendages intact.

When your buddys a total door knob..but you need his help!

When you buy the X-Arcade stick, it includes a manual with link to their site and custom built MAME. I just used that... Easy!

Now that is a great addition to your home. Congrats on the new cabinet. May you play till you cannot play anymore.

Arrrghhhh.... here is me in 2020 trying to find original 80's cabinets in this awesome condition and these guys trash it for this end result... I cry.

Such a great video! Druken Master Paul is the man! You guys are hilarious together.

This is such a cool idea! Another similar idea I just thought of is to take a tablet, some professional music software, an external hard drive, some really big speakers and a cabinet, to make a jukebox!

I am a huge Porcupine Tree. I love their albums: Stupid Dream, Lightbulb Sun, In Absentia and Deadwing...to name a few. One of my all time favorite ProgRock bands

You got a good friend in DMP.

i don't have a mame machine but i am a meme machine.

My age is relevant because I was born more or less at the same time the first arcade cabinets were being introduced into the world ;) Cool to see someone doing it themselves. Great job again !!

Nothing but a bunch of chill, laid back buddies having fun in everything they do and collect.

this shits a comedy show in itself +1 sub

Your wife had me at post apocalyptic betty paige or tank girl.

6:53 - DMP walking the sander...is there a euphamism there? I bet we could invent one. Around 8:00 - DMP sings a song and rocks it like a duck. 9:20 - That cabinet looks f'ing INCREDIBLE!! Can't wait to come over and try it out!

Nice Build! I've done such in the past complete from scratch and using an old TV in it (does make it look more authentic; eg. original scan-lines without to emulate them). I bought original Arcade controllers from a local dealer, which where the most expensive part, but worth it. It's been some riddling to connect all the dots to make that work in keyboard scheme. Finally i used my Amiga 500 for running it, hidden in the marque to get access to its keyboard if needed. It 20 years ago by now.

I'm speechless (but can still type). No offense, and if you like this and it makes you happy, then great, but this is THE worst butchering of an arcade cab I have ever seen. Even ignoring the option of restoring this to a working centipede cab, which would have been incredibly easy since the cab is clearly in very good condition, not to mention made it something worth some money... there are so many better ways you could have converted this to a mame cab. Your mate clearly has plenty of tools, he could have easily disassembled the X-arcade and mounted it's buttons and sticks in the original metal control panel. There are multiple ways of interfacing a computer with an arcade monitor, none of which are expensive, and you originally wanted a portrait monitor anyway. Why on earth is there a big ugly exposed switch for the marquee light on the front?!? Plug the light into the powerboard inside, or at least put the switch on the back. Those speakers... I guess you at least acknowledge that they are pretty bad. I'd rather have left the peeling vinyl than slop paint on the side with a brush... at least spray it! I'm not really sure what the point of having an arcade cabinet is if it basically looks no better than putting a controller and monitor on a bookshelf. Ok I'm done.

I would have definitely went for a CRT instead, but a great project nonetheless.

Arcade cabs are the best. I converted a non working Thunderblade cab to Mame and it is tons of fun. For all the preservationist, you can often do this without making any real modifications to the cabinet so you can put it back to original condition if you want. That's how mine is, I kept all the original parts. In my opinion, its a lot more usable to have multiple emulators and games.

Man I love that Dodge Challenger in the background. Nice work on the MAME arcade too and I wish I could do something like that.

C`mon share the info!!....how much did you get the cab for? & then if you could explain what is a fair , bad & ripp off price? it would be very handy to know. thanks ps & wow!! someone donated an X arcade board! I have an old (well two actually) Pentium 4 desktops running XP, would these suit for MAME? (Just MAME btw nothing else as they are just spare & laying around in a cupboard)

Cool, but they are not making that cab anymore so there is only so many "Senipeed and or Capcom Bowling" cabs in existence and once there gone, they are gone. I think it would have been smarter to use www.mameroom.com/webstore_home.asp or xtensionarcadecabinet.com/

Man this brings back memories of my childhood as my dad had a few arcade cabinets and 2 of them were in fact centipede and Capcom bowling. Had them set up in our game room with our computers and consoles/tv's back then which is where all the fun was he had his friends over and i had my cousins, nothing like arcades battles and playing Duke Nukem and all the classics in pvp. I was like 4th and 5th grade. Now that i am in my mid 20's i want to eventually build myself a Mame since we don't have them anymore and all my old consoles are gone. One day going to start a collection again though.

Why can't I have cool neighbors like these guys?

If anyone reading this could have only ONE arcade cabinet in their basement, and it has to only have the original game in it not an emulator with multiple games, and price is not a factor, what one would you pick?

i have epilepsy... i found your joke fucking hilarious :) my girlfriend makes seizure jokes aaaaaallll the time

Just watched your mame cab video and am instantly hooked. Now I am a subscriber. I like your production, and not overly produced like a lot of videos. 5 stars, will recommend

Just wanted to say "thanks guys!" for doing this vid. It was one of the inspirations for me to build my mame cab and also a source of various ideas. Ive been working on mine for just under a year and im always finding some way to tweak and improve it :) great vid!

I'm 15 years old and i'm probably buying an EMPTY arcade cab for about 180$ and the buttons and controllers for about 50$ and make it myself too!

Aaah MAME.. The only thing I feel is lacking in the MAME-emulator is the ability to limit your continues. Don't get me wrong, I love the fact that we at no cost finally get to beat games that just ate our money in the arcades when we were kids, but in a way, unlimited credits takes away the sense of challenge and accomplishment that is present (and should be) in games without unlimited continues. You need to have some form of motivating factor, something which tells you that "oh, an extra life? I ACTUALLY need that" ... without it, you can just breeze through a game from start to finish, not caring about creative events and awesome game-mechanics that offer extra lives as a reward for daring feats, etc. I mean, what's the point in that? What is the point in never actually dying? There is no real threat. The games just ask you for more coins and with the press of a button, you feed MAME an unlimited amount. Sure, you can just try to limit yourself in a faux-realistic manner where you tell yourself "I'm only going to play for the amount of five credits, after that, I'm out of money and its game over", but that would be akin to the old wooden PONG-consoles where you yourself had to keep score by sliding sliders to mark out how many points you had. Its a minor complaint, but still, it would be nice if I had the option at least. And I can't imagine that a simple option for a pre-determined limit to how many "coins" you feed the emulator would be all that hard to program.

Like that centipede sticker,some of the best art of all time.

The part where DMP is walking the belt-sander like a dog was just awesome. Why haven't t I ever thought of that???

It's pronounced "MAY-MAY"

you should get a Raseberry Pi and run retro pie on it

Coolest channel I've run across in awhile. These guys are down to earth, and intelligent. That's just great.

Awesome dude. Really enjoyed that. Glad you got the hyper spin all tuned up too.

why the hell would you turn a centipede machine into capcom bowling?

Not to be offense sir but you look like alice cooper! hahhaha

Now I want to this sooo bad, it would be wicked to chop the arcade cab in half and make it a sort of tabletop arcade battlestation!

MJR, Paul seems to be a cool cat and a riot with that cab build. I would have had a kick with his help in building my cabs. It's good to have talented friends always willing to help...

RIP to another classic Centipede cabinet. Way to go.... 1 less dedicated game out there for a dumb MAME cab. Absolutely nothing resembling the original game. Should of just fabricated a new cabinet if you are going the X-Arcade route.

An horror, scrap an original Centipede for a "Mame" with a LCD... yuck. My arcade legends 3 cabinet is right cabinet for the job, with 3D (Foggy) picture. Arcade legends 3 is bad.

I've been a long-time PC enthusiast. Yes, it's bad airflow, but considering what the machine is being used for, it's highly unlikely that the heating would be a problem. It's for stand-up arcade game sessions, not 5-hour long intensive gaming sessions. The games won't be pushing the machine very hard at all. Also, you speak about "aesthetics," but as I mentioned, it's not an issue -- it's hidden inside the cabinet. There are no aesthetics to speak of.

I know I'm watching this six years after it posted but I thought I'd offer up some tips for future builds. I'm currently (well, in 2018) in the process of doing exactly what you guys did; convert an original centipede machine to MAME. The part where you're stripping the paint and vinyl off the sides with the original Centipede. You don't need to use a belt sander. You can but as MetalJesus found out, it's a pain in the ass. Just cover both sides of the cabinet with a product called Citristrip then leave it for two days and you can easily peel it right off. If you need to sand small bits off afterward you can. This will work on any vinyl for other old arcade projects too. Also, if you pulled out that light at the top, the original 6x9 speaker is behind it. I replaced the original light with led and it works great. I also bought a small 2.1 sound system and put the smaller speakers behind the light. You guys did great work though! Thanks so much for this video!

X-Arcade?!? Blech! Bad enough you're doing Mame, but to not even do it right?!? Those buttons are HORRIBLE and the sticks aren't much better either! I normally love your videos, but I had to cut it off the moment I heard X-Arcade. With all the options out there, that's just mailing it in. #sadpanda

It all depends on the finish. I mean, I made a table-top cabinet, basically like the monitor and joysticks as a standalone unit, and it probably cost less than $150. It helps if you have old stuff, like maybe an old laptop with a broken screen, an old monitor. The cheapest option is to use a USB controller and wire the joysticks to it - real keyboard controllers like X-Arcade can be expensive. Like 14catorce says, it's a lot more fun to build your own, and cheaper.

beautiful...the black paint is perfect and the x arcade is the best ever created

Paul is a great friend

Well, that's it. I have watched all 131 episodes of Metal Jesus Rocks in two days! I am all up to date, but totally bummed I have to wait for new MJR. Sweet MAME Cab MJ. DMP's got some mad skillz!

DMP is practicing all of his roles as extras for every TV show he has ever been in. harharhar

You folks have way to much fun doing this!! I sooo want to hang with you guys!

I'm currently buying the same capcom bowling game to turn into mame and how cool that you did the same with great success.

OPening a beer with any tool including a spoon/ lighter/ knife or really pretty much anything-- a crowbar in this case, is rather easy. You have it about 80% right. 1: grab the beer by the neck with your left hand. 2. place your index finger over the far end of the cap as though it were the support position of the bottle opener. *this is the part you missed* 3. place object under cap 4. pry under cap pushing the cap into the underside of your index finger and using your thumb as the fulcrum for the pry device. 5. consume!

That Centipede cabinet art was so gorgeous...

Here are the games in the arcade montage: Twin Cobra Frogger Journey Cosmic Avenger Daiku no Gensan (or Hammerin' Harry) Hang-On Kaitei Daisensou (In the Hunt) Time Pilot Kung-Fu Master Rebecca & I playing Raiden

it depends. You can make a really cheap one for 200-400£ depending what you have (monitor, pc, speakers, etc..). If you want to buy a cabinet ready to play, a fair price would be between 800 to 2k£, depending the quality and size of the screen, add-ons... there are plenty of manufacturers in UK, but some of them can charge up to 4k£ for a top quality one. It's allways cheaper and more fun if you build your own machine.

I was born in 1978. This is my goal... someday ! Great job and happy gaming !!

I was thinking the same thing, but yeah not everything is savable. I do like the retro art work on a lot of these machines. They help fuel the imagination if nothing else.

Thanks dude. You does rock. I'm planning on making a MAME machine out of this Primal Rage cab. Sweet!!!

I understand what people mean about building it from scratch etc. but I thought it was pretty cool. Would have like to have a bit more detail on how you made it but never mind. Added to favourites for future reference too ^_^

for my mame cab.. all i did for art work was went and bought a good quality poster.. some 3m spray on glue.. and it worked perfect.. i went with a 4 player model, track ball, 4 way joy stick (pack man ) and of course 2 spinners. this turned out to be over kill for what i ended up using my mame cab for. laughs.. it only got used for all the extra stuff during holidays... so gonna give it to my sister... she has 2 kids etc... so it will get used.. and im gonna build a bar top model.. i too went with hyperspin. i went with hyperspin because i like the arcade flash it has.. it gets your attention.. like any good arcade would back in the day.. so on my bartop im gonna build im gonna just go with a 2 player, skullkitty theme.. with a small 3" track ball. i found the track ball worked great for navigating too.. so a built in mouse right on top.. i also think this time im gonna go with all LED buttons/sticks/track ball... im not gonna add a the coin thing this time around... looked cool.. but i never used it.. just left it turn off.. and so yeah.. now i guess you have motivated me to build a new mame cab. its funny i built my original mame cab the same year you did.. i guess it was the thing we all did back then eh :D home deopt to buy some partical board this weekend maybe.. probably go with a 20" monitor.. and i have a few old pc laying around.. hard part i guess with a bartop is making them fit.. where the full size i had to much room.. everyone should build a mame cab itheya re great fun. :) and if you are on the fence of what to build. i say build a bartop first.. but that is what i think after owning a full size..

I can'nt belive you gunted this classic arcade game for Mame

WOW!!!! DMP is REALY a true renaissance man!

MAME with HyperSpin running over the top

Thank you for this. Im actually thinking of making an Arcade Cabinet out my gamecube and have a Melee cabinet just for fun

They could use a cheap flat screen tv (Dirt cheap nowadays) as monitor instead of the skinny screen view, plexi glass replacement from Home Depot cut trim to fit. Wonder if they tried the beer by the Heavy Metal band Amon Amarth. Heard its suppose to be pretty good.

Beer recommendation: just discovered the awesome steam works beers from just some hours away from your place, the beautiful city of Vancouver.

This just seems like an all around good time.

I'm thinking of building a small table top MAME machine running Hyperspin using a a spare netbook with maxed out ram, and building a cab around it with some simple USB controllers I can swap out as needed as I don't have a lot of space in my house, and want too keep the budget for it down as well.

Congratulations guys, that's Art.

The bit where DMP was using thh belt sander made me burst out with laughter!

What a great video! Love seeing things like old cabinets come back to life. And I've been looking for something like Hyper Spin forever! It works so well and streamlines everything.

You can make your own control panel with buttons and joysticks from Happ Controls wired into a keyboard encoder from Hagstrom Electroncs. Easy stuff. You can put a trackball on there to operate the mouse too.

Actually, MAME is capable of emulating Capcom Bowling and Centipede. So it's more like taking an old Rock-ola Jukebox, sprucing it up with custom artwork, and allowing it to play MP3s while still preserving its original function.

Very very cool. and as recycling guy. I think its cool that you were able to make use of an arcade machine that probably would have gotten tossed in a dump.

I never believed in Jesus but now I do!! great channel guys, oops, I hope your channel still up, this video is 3 years old...just realized, alright guys, keep up the good work, love it.

This is by the developers of Metal Slug, called: Kaitei Daisensou (In the Hunt)

I built basically this identical machine back in 2004-2005, using an old Taito cabinet. I decased a 19" CRT monitor for the project, but if I had to do it now it would be LCD all the way. I need to build a new one actually, sold the original to my contractor.

Yep. That's Mrs. Metal Jesus...and she kinda sucks at Raiden, but she DESTROYS me at Mortal Kombat!

awesome stuff MJ and DMP. We love MAME your videos keep getting better and better

Wow 2012 throw back great vid classic.

Heat and a scraper works really well to remove vinal stickers

Big fan of metal Jesus, nice easy covert, i do not use xarcade just because of price, however, it works and they are quality.just because the cab is not suited for one person it doesnt mean its not suited for the other person. Its a strong assumption to say that metal Jesus saved the ball controller or gave it away for another project. Nice convert. I enjoyed the video.

Could you give an in depth of HyperSpin,how you got it to work and so forth?