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New/Finished project; Mini Neo-Geo cabinet
fedexin:
--- Quote from: jbarnatt on May 22, 2010, 11:35:55 pm ---I can't believe that you did this after seeing mine. Yours came out way nicer. Mine sort of evolved to be a NEOGEO type. When my brother told me about the charity I told him that I would make it into a Mini MVS because it sort of looked like one already. I'm very glad that I inspired you in some way. Someone just asked me to build a reproduction Mini MVS. It's going to use actual Neo Geo hardware. Where did you get that 3D rendering you used for the sizing? I know that mine was quite a bit smaller than a real one. Since this needs to be accurate it would be good to have some measurements.
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Hi and thanks! Very cool that you'll be making a repro mini mvs. I'd be interested to know how wide the real deal is, since mine is cozy for just one player. I downloaded Google SketchUp and went into the "3D Warehouse" in the menu and searched for "Neo Geo". "Gozer" had the model I used and scaled down for my template. I kept my original mdf cutout for future machines.
I remember playing a mini at a skate rink back in Maryland, and my local Coin-op distributer has one in his living room I hear.... I'd love to get my hands on an original!
Thanks to all for the feedback!
LeedsFan:
This looks awesome! A friend of mine recently built a mini cabinet which is about the same size. 4 feet tall is just about perfect for sitting at. I have to say though in your videos you make it look tiny. :p
Having played on my friends machine I've decided to build one. I have a 22" CRT monitor here doing nothing and it needs a project to go into. Yours and my friends have inspired me to make something similar. I like the NEO-GEO control panels with the well laid out buttons. On my machine though I would want to include a second joystick to be able to play Robotron and Smash TV. And if I include a second joystick do I make it fully 2-player with more buttons... and how many? Once ideas start things go on a roll.....
How wide is your CP? The width of my monitor is 19.5" so the panel would have to be at least that.
Yeah grats on a great little cabinet you have there. You really succeeded when you inspire people into a project.
fedexin:
--- Quote from: LeedsFan on May 25, 2010, 07:59:10 pm ---This looks awesome! A friend of mine recently built a mini cabinet which is about the same size. 4 feet tall is just about perfect for sitting at. I have to say though in your videos you make it look tiny. :p
Having played on my friends machine I've decided to build one. I have a 22" CRT monitor here doing nothing and it needs a project to go into. Yours and my friends have inspired me to make something similar. I like the NEO-GEO control panels with the well laid out buttons. On my machine though I would want to include a second joystick to be able to play Robotron and Smash TV. And if I include a second joystick do I make it fully 2-player with more buttons... and how many? Once ideas start things go on a roll.....
How wide is your CP? The width of my monitor is 19.5" so the panel would have to be at least that.
Yeah grats on a great little cabinet you have there. You really succeeded when you inspire people into a project.
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Glad I could inspire someone else! I was on the RacketBoy.com forum and the thought came up of possibly doing net-play between a few of these mini machines. I think a mini arcade would be pretty cool! My CP is only 17" wide and about 7" deep, just perfect for the amount of buttons I wanted to cram into the CP and still have it be comfortable for an adult.
jeffhlewis:
fedexin:
Thanks for the shout out! I haven't been on the boards in months and stumbled across your build. Very nice.
I could have sent you the Adobe Illustrator file for the CP to save you some time! but what you made looks great.
hope you enjoy it, all this revisiting of projects is helping light a fire under ---my bottom--- to start my Outrun restoration project that's been on ice for a year.
TalkingBull:
I really like this a lot! I have been planning on building a NeoGeo cab myself but I was going to make it a mini-bartop. That's going to be my next project. The one I plan on doing is going to be just of NeoGeo games and I will use HyperSpin solely dedicated to that but with a two player interface. I really like the look of yours and will be copying your paint style :) I have been considering how to do the paint job and yours settled it! I will post it here when I get to it... have to finish my current project first of course.