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First Project: MegaTokyo MAME!!
Aithos:
Got the cabinet all taken apart today, had to get a security bit set to remove the control panel and it took some fancy ratcheting to get the monitor bolts out since it was a pretty tight fit. But I got all the wires undone, just a few more bolts to remove the coin bucket area. I also still need to remove a bit of wiring from the marquis area, the speaker and the power for the cabinet then I'm going to heat the sideart off and see what I have to do as far as stripping/sanding to get the old paint off. I'll get some pics taken before the weekend is up.
I found that I need to make a new top piece for the CP, the current one isn't going to work so I'm going to just sell it with the PCB, marquis. Although it's a single piece so I should be able to route a new top and plexi really easily. I've decided on my layout, going to use a 7 button layout with 3 on top 4 on bottom so I can use the bottom 4 for neo geo games and the right 6 for normal fighting games. I'll get a pic up with a design as soon as I have it made, I'm still working on artwork for the CP and haven't found a good program besides photoshop for making a drilling diagram. This is just a quick update since I've had a busy week, have a couple 4 day weekends coming up this month so hoping to really hammer out some work then!
Aithos:
So I did some color testing for my control panel and I've somewhat narrowed it down to two types of color schemes. I'm using Navy and Pink Buttons because of the Megatokyo theme, Junpei is the navy blue and since there aren't purple seimitsu buttons Miho is pink. I don't have the artwork for the CP yet and that is going to help determine which button set I go with but I wanted to get some opinions on whether I should go with Neo-Geo colors for the bottom four or not. I like both styles so I'm having a hard time deciding. Also I have to use snap in buttons, since I'm going to have a wood CP with plexi over the overlay is that going to be an issue? I am going to route the button holes so I figured it wouldn't make a difference but I want something very durable, I don't plan on changing buttons if I don't have to. Thanks guys!
BurgerKingDiamond:
your computer power supply has +12V and +5V in it. There should be some wires with connectors that you can daisy chain off to get whatever power you need. There will be sets of black, yellow, and red wires. Black is of course ground, but I can't remember if yellow is +5V and red is +12V (it might be the other way around, just test it with a multimeter). I don't know exactly what this breakout cable looks like, but it should be pretty easy to supply +5V to it.
Donkbaca:
I don't like the neo-geo button colors. Too many colors.
Also, from what i gather, snap in buttons won't work on a wood control panel, they are just too short.
Donkbaca:
Of course, one solution to the button color issue would be to go clear buttons with RGB's that way you could have one scheme up for regular games and then you could change the colors for NEO Geo games.