{"id":12,"date":"2011-10-08T21:16:34","date_gmt":"2011-10-09T01:16:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.gabmonkey.com\/arcade\/?p=12"},"modified":"2011-10-08T21:16:34","modified_gmt":"2011-10-09T01:16:34","slug":"getting-started","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gabmonkey.com\/arcade\/2011\/10\/getting-started\/","title":{"rendered":"Getting Started"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a title=\"Project Arcade on Amazon\" href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/047089153X\/ref=as_li_ss_tl?ie=UTF8&amp;tag=gabmon01-20&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;camp=217145&amp;creative=399369&amp;creativeASIN=047089153X\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-13\" src=\"http:\/\/gabmonkey.com\/arcade\/files\/2011\/10\/project-arcade-240x300.jpg\" alt=\"Project Arcade Book\" width=\"240\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/gabmonkey.com\/arcade\/files\/2011\/10\/project-arcade-240x300.jpg 240w, https:\/\/gabmonkey.com\/arcade\/files\/2011\/10\/project-arcade.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 240px) 100vw, 240px\" \/><\/a>The first thing I did to build my cabinet was research. \u00a0I checked out the <a href=\"http:\/\/forum.arcadecontrols.com\/\">BYOAC community site<\/a>, and I came across the <a href=\"http:\/\/bellsouthpwp2.net\/g\/c\/gcnewsome\/\">Heavy Metal Arcade Cabinet<\/a>\u00a0that was the cabinet I wanted to model mine around. I loved the kick plate, the cartoon artwork, and it just looked bad ass in general. \u00a0Except I wanted mine to be 4 players, just like the TMNT arcade game. \u00a0I also went out and got Saint&#8217;s book \u00a0<a href=\"\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/0764556169\/ref=as_li_ss_tl?ie=UTF8&amp;tag=gabmon01-20&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;camp=217145&amp;creative=399369&amp;creativeASIN=0764556169\">Project Arcade<\/a>, now in a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/047089153X\/ref=as_li_ss_tl?ie=UTF8&amp;tag=gabmon01-20&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;camp=217145&amp;creative=399369&amp;creativeASIN=047089153X\">second edition<\/a>. \u00a0This book was a great help and provide a great number of insights.<\/p>\n<p>My first suggestion is to get a vision of what you want to build. Once you know what you want, then\u00a0piecing\u00a0it together is a bit easier. \u00a0I liked the look of the Heavy Metal Arcade Cabinet, so I ordered the same template they used from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mameroom.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">MAME Room<\/a> (Now North Coast Custom Arcades). \u00a0I downloaded the blue prints and started to buy my material.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The first thing I did to build my cabinet was research. \u00a0I checked out the BYOAC community site, and I came across the Heavy Metal Arcade Cabinet\u00a0that was the cabinet I wanted to model mine around. I loved the kick plate, the cartoon artwork, and it just looked bad ass in general. \u00a0Except I wanted [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":13,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-12","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-planning","8":"entry"},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/gabmonkey.com\/arcade\/files\/2011\/10\/project-arcade.jpg","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2e8ei-c","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gabmonkey.com\/arcade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gabmonkey.com\/arcade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gabmonkey.com\/arcade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gabmonkey.com\/arcade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gabmonkey.com\/arcade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/gabmonkey.com\/arcade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gabmonkey.com\/arcade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gabmonkey.com\/arcade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gabmonkey.com\/arcade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gabmonkey.com\/arcade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}