Go for the full cabinet, but not as deep (so LCD instead of CRT). Best experience in my opinion!

Software is ready to run my own game controller with dynamic lighting based on the emulator running at the time.
Hardware is being built (waiting for some extra components).

Created a project website for it :-p
Retropie stuff

Hardware schematics, software, photo's and video's will be posted ASAP.

Greetings,

ErX