Ultimate Arcade II Quad Control Panel Plans???

[toksic]

Long time lurker, first time poster, hoping someone can help me out in desperate times!

I purchased the Ultimate Arcade II plans from www.mameroom.com back in 2005.  I've only just gotten around to actually building it!  Slack, I know! 

The main cabinet is built, so I went back to MameRoom to purchase the Quad Control Panel plans.  Alas, the plans are no longer available!

I contacted MameRoom directly ... not only do they not have the plans available anymore, they don't seem to have any copies.  They don't even have the CNC templates to produce one in kit format.

Now, after looking around at a lot of different designs, I'm still convinced the original big octagonal panel is the best looking for this cabinet.  Scroll down on this page to the picture of the two cabinets standing shoulder to shoulder, and you'll see what they look like:

http://www.dvdreviewer.co.uk/Forums/Gaming_and_Consoles/t588742/Ultimate_Arcade_II_Cabinet/page1

Now, I have Googled this until my fingers bled, and here's the best I could come up with:

1.   Some guy who has built the control panel years ago, and doesn't respond to blog posts.  The blog is ancient, on WordPress, and he probably doesn't even realise it still exists;

2.   Another guy who did a review on the cabinet and control panel.  His review says he was sent the plans ... got in contact with him, and he no longer has them;

3.  A third guy who says on a forum that he has the plans ... but the forum seems to be broken, and I can't sign up to the site to ask him about them.

Seriously, I'm starting to think a higher power doesn't want me building this!


So, here it comes .... the begging bit.  If *anyone* has the plans, or knows of anyone who does, could you PLEASE contact me!

Please don't leave me to try and replicate this panel from scratch on my own!  From what I can see, and what I've heard on one of the blogs above, there are 5 unique shapes to the sides, and they're all compound miter cuts ... so it would be an unholy nightmare to try and reproduce this one!

Thanks All!

Tok

[saint]

They're in the new book

[toksic]

 

Be still my beating heart! 

We're not talking about the Ultimate Arcade II "cabinet" here ... but the original plans for the MameRoom Quad Control Panel?  Dastardly angles and all?

And I take it by "new book", you're referring to the 2nd edition of Project Arcade? :

http://www.amazon.com/Project-Arcade-Build-Machine-Wiley/dp/047089153X/ref=pd_sim_b_3

Do we have a release date?  Would you accept a $30 Amazon voucher or similar type bribery, and a promise to buy the book, to send me a copy of those plans now? 

Made my day! 

[DirtyDachshunds]

I made their panel just from the dimensions they give in their layout software.   
That's all you need. 

[toksic]

If you're talking about the software (screenshot attached), then that's not what I'm after.  This is a simplified version of their original Quad controller.  The box itself doesn't have any slope, and it's not octagonal. 

I'm not interested in the control "layout" itself, those are a dime-a-dozen and can be found anywhere on the net.  It's the construction plans for the octagonal quad controller box itself that I'm after.

Here's a picture of the octagonal unit under construction, on the blog I mentioned of the guy who never replied:

http://wesbuschman.com/blog/2009/02/the-control-panel/#comments

Yeah, I could probably make this up as I go along, but it would be quicker if I had the original plans to work off.  It's taken me the better part of 5 years to get around to building the cabinet ... don't want to take another 5 to build the control panel 

Hopefully John will get back to me with a "yay" or "nay" on whether his new book has the plans for the *original*, octagonal quad controller.  If it does, I'll wait out for that.  Otherwise, I guess it's (literally) back to the drawing board 

Thanks anyway!

[DirtyDachshunds]

All I'm saying is that the software has all the dimensions you need to recreate their current quad controller.  Their current version isn't octagonal and its not sloped.  But you should have all the resources you need to make what you want.  Not everything has a step by step guide.

Good luck!

[toksic]

Thanks ... but I'm *fixated* on the original octagonal quad controller, not their current, simplified 6-sided flat design.

The problem, and the reason I posted here in the first place, is that the original, octagonal quad controller *DOES* have a step-by-step guide.  It just appears to have disappeared off the face of the planet.

I've tee'd up a mate who AutoCad's for a living ... we'll hash out the dimensions, angles etc in that, and then I'll see what I can come up with. 

Provided, of course, John doesn't come back and tell me that his 2nd edition *does* have the plans for the original controller ...

BTW: checked out MillerCade, very nice work!  Love the artwork!

[kegger]

I pm'd you some info, maybe that will help you in your quest.

Keg

[wozza]

I have built this old design, it does have appeal in my opinion. Let me know if you still need info.

Wozza.

[scream1973]

As Saint said the plans are in the new revision of the Project Arcade book. For the Angled bottom 4 Player panel they are included in pdf format on the cd.

[rca420]

Long time lurker, first time poster, hoping someone can help me out in desperate times!

I purchased the Ultimate Arcade II plans from www.mameroom.com back in 2005.  I've only just gotten around to actually building it!  Slack, I know! 

The main cabinet is built, so I went back to MameRoom to purchase the Quad Control Panel plans.  Alas, the plans are no longer available!

I contacted MameRoom directly ... not only do they not have the plans available anymore, they don't seem to have any copies.  They don't even have the CNC templates to produce one in kit format.

Now, after looking around at a lot of different designs, I'm still convinced the original big octagonal panel is the best looking for this cabinet.  Scroll down on this page to the picture of the two cabinets standing shoulder to shoulder, and you'll see what they look like:

http://www.dvdreviewer.co.uk/Forums/Gaming_and_Consoles/t588742/Ultimate_Arcade_II_Cabinet/page1

Now, I have Googled this until my fingers bled, and here's the best I could come up with:

1.   Some guy who has built the control panel years ago, and doesn't respond to blog posts.  The blog is ancient, on WordPress, and he probably doesn't even realise it still exists;

2.   Another guy who did a review on the cabinet and control panel.  His review says he was sent the plans ... got in contact with him, and he no longer has them;

3.  A third guy who says on a forum that he has the plans ... but the forum seems to be broken, and I can't sign up to the site to ask him about them.

Seriously, I'm starting to think a higher power doesn't want me building this!


So, here it comes .... the begging bit.  If *anyone* has the plans, or knows of anyone who does, could you PLEASE contact me!

Please don't leave me to try and replicate this panel from scratch on my own!  From what I can see, and what I've heard on one of the blogs above, there are 5 unique shapes to the sides, and they're all compound miter cuts ... so it would be an unholy nightmare to try and reproduce this one!

Thanks All!

Tok

Old thread... Sorry, but I'd like to know if you ever got your hands on the octo cp plan. If so, would you share it with me? Much thanks!

[evolutioner]

did you managed to find the plans?

[Chris John Hunter]

did you managed to find the plans?

On the CD and in the book, Project Arcade. By Saint. Barnes and Noble / Amazon.

CJ