With so many good arcade compilations out there, like Midway Arcade Treasures and Namco Mueseum stuff (any others? Please list em if you know em) I wanna make an arcade machine for my house. Mainly this will be used for the Mortal Kombat games, and HOPEFULLY Ultimate Mortal Kombat 3 and MK4 if they ever come out with those. (If not, I shall someday own/piece together my own real UMK3 arcade cabinet with a real Jamma board, and if not that or even with that, some day I'll have a nice computer-setup arcade cabinet so I can just run arcade games off there).

What I'm going to do is....
-First build an arcade cabinet. Template: The Mortal Kombat arcade cabinets, I think these look so cool and arcade-like. I'm gonna use MDF wood and cut it out and then paint it black. Then I'll shall attach blue T-molding to it. It'll have the blue/black PS2 motiff.
-Buy a new TV for it with stereo sound. Either 19" or 27" depending on how big real arcade monitors are cuz right now I really don't know. (Do you know?)
-Buy a new PSTwo and put it underneath the monitor, in the cabinet, along with a new memory card, and all the arcade compilation discs I have... as well as any other cool PS2 games that could be run on an arcade machine like Tekken, MK6 etc.
-Buy 20 new arcade pushbuttons and two new joysticks from Happ controls. I'm THINKING the controller setup will be like this, just like the Mortal Kombat games, 2 buttons vertically, 1 button in the middle, 2 buttons vertically, then next to those are two more vertical buttons (For the extra L2/R2 buttons) then to the bottom left between the joystick and the other buttons will be the last button, for Run in MK3. Now I COULD make everything blue. All buttons, all joysticks..but if I were to make it more arcade like I could have 1 Blue joystick (1player) and 1 red joystick (2 player), then 2 blue,1 white,2 red,1 yellow for the Mortal Kombat-like setup, and then maybe a different color for the L2/R2 buttons (suggestions? green maybe? purple?)
Anyway I'm going to buy two cheapo-third party PS1 controllers (5 bux each), take em apart and solder (pronounced saw-der) all the pushbuttons to the circuit board, creating a real life arcade controller setup.
- Put plexi-glass over the control part, just like in arcades
- Put some kind of screen on the thing so it doesn't look just like a TV on a shelf.

And I think that's it. Pretty cool eh?