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Astro City 2 dual JAMMA / emulation cabinet
Kokapetl:
--- Quote from: emphatic on November 13, 2010, 06:59:40 pm ---You can get very good replicas here: http://triplemoonstar.brinkster.net/theshed/default.asp?stockid=2224 (in Europe) and here: http://triplemoonstar.brinkster.net/mcs/default.asp?stockid=2219 (in USA)
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Thanks!
--- Quote from: Paladin on August 13, 2010, 08:48:26 am ---My cab is currently a dual Dreamcast/JAMMA setup, and I'm waiting for a J-Pac to figure out how to wire MAME into it as well.
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That looks very clean, I'll try my best to make mine look as nice ;) and I'll post pictures of my PC mounted when I put it all back together. I'm mounting it upsidedown from the sheet metal plate below the monitor. This plate was insanely difficult to drill through, and I wonder why it was such high quality strong steel since it isn't (or at least WASN'T) load-bearing at all. The extra jobs so far have been to have an additional power switch for PC power and hacking up some old PC speakers to amplify the PC audio signal. I've set the BIOS of my PC to "reboot after power failure", so it automatically boots up from the switch.
BurgerKingDiamond:
Please post some pics of you respraying your machine! I want to do this to mine as well, but I will be putting it off I think until I move out of my current place this May. I want to move into someplace with a garage then, and I that would make painting easier, which I hate doing even in the best of circumstances.
LOOTER:
--- Quote from: Kokapetl on August 06, 2010, 02:16:47 am ---Hi everyone, first post!
I picked up a working Sega New Astro City cabinet, minus some (hopefully) minor monitor problems which I'm going to convert to be a dual JAMMA / emulation cabinet - i.e., I want to be able to easily switch between using a JAMMA board and using a PC for emulation.
This is my second cabinet project (the cabinet on the left was a gutted and battle-damaged cabinet that I picked up cheap and did up using a TV and XBOX core).
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I like what you did. more pics please. I would love to pimp out my SNK (NEO 29) Candy Cab
Kokapetl:
--- Quote from: BurgerKingDiamond on November 14, 2010, 12:15:26 pm ---Please post some pics of you respraying your machine!
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Here's some respray photos. The first picture shows one part where I putty-filled some gouges in the cabinet and sanded everything down.
I resprayed using an air compressor and a professional spray kit, using 2pak paint (car paint).
This leaves a really nice finish, if you get any runners / drips (you will) do NOT try to fix them at the time.
Leave the paint job for an entire week before doing anything to the drips. Sand with 800 grade WET sand paper, then if you want to - buff as you would a car.
Kokapetl:
Here's some re-assembly shots, and the wiring which I re-did (I held my breath before turning it on for the first time) ;)
I also added an extra power switch and extension cord (for PC power), there was a round hole in the power panel filled with a button cap. I filed a hole through the cap and slotted in the button (a little hard to see from the picture because it's so dark and just looks like a black circle).