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Mario Bros Mame Project
nosecondcity:
I acquired a mostly empty cab for free, so I am beginning my mario bros themed mame arcade. Here are some pics of the cabinet as it sits in my kitchen. The marquee says Battle Balls, which is a pretty fun game, but there's nothing inside except for some stray wires that connect to the speakers. The control panel is removed because it wouldn't fit through my apt. doorway (I'm on the 2nd floor and this was insane getting it up a flight of curving stairs).
This will be a 2 person/6 buttons/1 trackball control panel. There's a pic of the cp I printed out in b&w to make sure I liked the spacing and layout. It uses the basic design of the original cp with some mods for a 2 player and trackball. It's approximately 14in width by 34in length.
The sideart and marquee will be reproduction from mamemarquees (oops-gameongraphics!).
Right now, I'm debating as to whether or not to paint the cab orange or red...will go to lowes tonight to pick up the paint, so I better make up my mind.
Can't wait to get this going...hopefully this weekend I'll be able to prime the cab and drill the holes for the cp.
tjterrill:
Very cool.
I was very close to doing Mario Bros on the exact same cab shape. However after thinking more about it, I decided against it so I could do Mario Bros, and DK on the original Nintendo arcade shape. That's just my preference hoewever, especially after seeing so many well done reproductions.
Good luck! Ill be following.
nosecondcity:
Yea, I went back and forth on the same thing, but to do a repro, the width of the cab was just too small to have 2players and a trackball. I don't want it to be cramped while playing.
I was going to try to re-use the base part of the cp, but I think I'm going to slant the top of the control panel for more comfort (similar to how the Simpsons/X-men, etc control panels were). And the length of it is too short so that one of my joysticks wouldn't fit inside.
I placed my printout on my mdf and stuck it on the cab and the viewing angle seems good for both players, so I'm happy about that at least.
nosecondcity:
Okay, so this past week I got a good amount of work done. I painted the cab using a paint code from one of the members here. I think it came out well. I had wanted to use Buckethead's red paint code from Lowes, but the dude from Lowes told me Valspar had changed their base colors, so the gallon he mixed off the code was magenta-ish--just a head's up for those interested in using the red color.
I then drilled the holes for the cp. The trackball's a bit of a problem since I didn't have a 3 1/4 inch bit. I ended up using a compass to draw 3 1/4 inch hole, then used a 1 inch bit and made repeated cuts in it. I used a file to go around it. It worked okay, but I have a little more to do on it.
I received the artwork from Scott at mamemarquees and it is fantastic. The control panel is great--I can't wait to see it with the controls on.
Built the control panel box but still have to drill a couple holes in it for attaching it to the cab.
The marquee cover had some old stickers on it, so I used goof off to remove it. Worked great but now there's a white film on it (see pic). Any suggestions as to how to get it off?
I've set up everything with the computer using MaLa frontend and running Mame, Znes, and Mala's jukebox. I might switch to Uncle T's but I'll see how Mala is first. Mala is f***ing fantastic!
Today I'm going to install the cp overlay and controls. There's a problem with my utrak, so while I can mount it, I won't be able to plug it in.
If I skip a bbq today, I can probably swing the wiring too, but most likely that will be tomorrow night.
Waiting on Pongo's set of vinyls for my pause and esc buttons.
The one problem I'm having is not being able to remove the e-clip from my U360s. I'm having trouble pulling it off. For those of you who have replaced the shaft/put on a restrictor, how did you remove the clip?
More pics to come when I finish the control panel.
jmike:
Looks great so far. Keep those pics coming.
BTW Love the control panel art!
:cheers: