I have an associates degree in electrical engineering so I have had a slot of experience with things of this nature. It was a lot of fun figuring out how to integrate everything.
I guess I would say I have enough money. The project was broken up over 4 months so I would buy a little part one day then buy another the following week and eventually it added add up to what you see.
Yeah the new fighting games Soul Calibur 3 and Tekken 5 are through the PS2, not able to emulate them and the Real arcade boards which I could integrate are way too expensive.
It had a lot of parts and the total cost (over the 4 months was pretty steep). lets just say over $1000 less then $5000.
As for playing 4 players, unfortunately there aren't that many 4 player arcade games, but it plays console games too, N64 games, PS, Nes, SNES, Genesis plus I threw in a...
I wasn't sure where to put this thread so this seemed like a good as place as any.
I turned a computer into a custom arcade.
Check out my website with more construction pics.
The Arcade Website
Let me know what you guys think of it.