The cost of the cabinet is flexible. You can add everything I did or you can skip putting in a coin box and marquee for now. I built into the cabinet a new PC and new 19" monitor. This upped the cost considerably but is somewhere you can save money. You likely will have a spare PC available that will run most of the MAME games quite nicely. The roms can be obtained from a variety of sources.
I was able to find some items on ebay and paid substantially less than retail price for them. Do a little looking and you can save yourself a fair amount of money.
A complete list of items is included. An abbreviated list of the more expensive items follows:
| Item | Where | Price (includes S/H & tax) |
| X-arcade Controller | www.x-arcade.com | orig 160 now $130 |
| Coin door | ebay | 46 |
| Mag 19" Monitor | Best Buy online | 233 |
| 3 sheets 3/4" ply | Lowes | 117 |
