Sega Naomi Cab for Mame - anyone have one?

[badgerjohn]

Hi all, have recently completed my first mame cabinet but also wanted to look at doing another for a friend converting a Naomi cab this time. Just wondered how many people have done this?

Had a few more specific questions too:
1) How easy would it be to paint or re-colour using another method such as vinyl? Never really dealt with plastic before

2) If there are scratches, knocks or even worse someone's carved the panel with initials or something, how easy would this be to repair/recover?

If anyone does have a Naomi cab with mame or a customised cab I'd love to see some pics!

[BadMouth]

http://forum.arcadecontrols.com/index.php?topic=93936.0

[Franco B]

I have three Naomi's myself. One stand up and two sit downs. I have an ongoing thread on them [here]

Your only real option to change the colour is to spray paint it. Vinyl etc is not really an option.

You should be able to fill scratches etc with filler before re-spraying, either by rattle can or professionally.

If you wanted you could also get the base and other metal parts power coated.

Have you bought one already or just looking to get one?

Edit: Cheers BadMouth.

 

[DeLuSioNal29]

Your only real option to change the colour is to spray paint it. Vinyl etc is not really an option.

What about Vinyl Dye?  http://www.hak5.org/w/index.php/Vinyl_Dye

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[Franco B]

Yeah I have seen vinyl die work well on some Candy cabs. I'm not sure how well it would work with filled/repaired bodywork though.

[badgerjohn]

BadMouth thanks for the link, Franco thanks for taking an hour of my life up drooling over your work!!

I'm just looking into it, not even 1% as skilled as you! Can just about manage a Mame/mala setup in a home made cab (which I thought came out not too bad until I saw your stuff!!!

Is there any other advice about turning one into a Mame cab? Anything else to be aware of?

Damn now I have to get one!!

[badgerjohn]

Are you based in England too Franco?

[BadMouth]

I have used vinyl dye on fiberglass that has been prepped with bondo and automotive primer, so it will work over primer.
That was so the piece would match the car door panel it was going into.

I see no advantage to using it instead of paint here though.

I've heard good things about Krylon Fusion, but haven't used it myself.

Make sure everything you don't want painted is taped off.
The static built up in plastic can make paint fly in odd directions.

[Franco B]

Thats good to know about the vinyl dye Badmouth, thanks.

Naomi's are pretty easy to 'mame'. Most of them have a 31k monitor so your PC will plug straight in though VGA.

For the controls you can just pickup a [JVS PAC] and that will interface the controls to your PC with no re-wiring etc required.

Yeah, I'm in the UK

I may know of one for sale actually if you are looking for one.

[badgerjohn]

I hope you dont mind me bombarding you with questions!

With the JVS PAC, if I bought a can that had 3 buttons per player but I wanted 6 it's no problem?

How would I power the pc? As my cab was a fresh build, I didn't have existing wiring, power supplies, components to deal with!

I am looking to buy one but more as a project than one that is mint. What's the spec/price etc?

[Franco B]

No problem. I'm no expert but I will help where I can

The JVS-PAC supports 8 buttons per player plus coin, start, service etc. You can also setup shifted functions for volume, enter, escape etc etc.

I have a three button panel that I am currently converting to a six button panel. The Sega layout uses the same six button positions but they use a specific number of holes depending on the game that the CP was designed for. Because of this you can easily convert a three button panel to a six button panel.





The components that you are likely to find in a Naomi cab are the transformer, Sun ATX PSU, Sega Amp and the Sega JVS I/O board. There may also be a Naomi motherboard and GD-ROM.

The transformer powers the monitor, strip light and Sun ATX PSU. The Sun ATX PSU powers the Naomi motherboard, Sega Amp and the JVS I/O board.

I know some people have ran a PC from the Sun ATX PSU but personally I would add a separate one and splice it in before the transformer.

[badgerjohn]

Great, thanks Franco! I'm off to source a cab now so I'll hold off the questions until I get one! If you do hear of one let me know