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First Machine/ Johnny Nero into MAME
Woodstock:
Hey again! Sorry it took longer than I thought to follow up. Im back now though.
First off.. some replies..
--- Quote from: drventure on April 03, 2011, 08:57:43 pm ---Good score. Looks like a shooting game, built in gun holders FTW!
Be sure to slap a couple AIMTraks in there!
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Sadly I don't think the current control panel will accommodate a wide enough area for 2 players comfortably. But see below :)
--- Quote from: eds1275 on April 04, 2011, 09:23:20 pm ---Judging by pictures, that machine looks pretty good as far as the condition it's in... how much did you pay, or did he give it to your for free?
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Without going into much detail.. it was not free.. maybe I will get in well enough with them sometime to get a free machine.. but lets just say this one was well more than 100$. But I am 100% satisfied with it. I saved me alot of cutting time, and it is a really well built machine. They even told me they had it specially manufactured from a company in Missouri or Mississippi .. I cant remember which. It also has the over under coin mech that is working as well... and the glass on the front.. I feel like I got a fair deal for what I paid. :)
NOW.. ON TO THE UPDATES!
First off.. Ill admit it.. I ruined 2 control panels to bad cuts.. the first one was.. I needed 2 notches in the board due to the edge of the machine. The first mess up was a wrong placement for notches.. dum mistake.. but it was made.. and I had plenty of MDF. 2nd mess up was due to the angled cut that had to be made.. I just flat out didn't do it right.. But I got wise older neighbor to show me how.. and now I know. :D . So now the rough cut of the top of the control panel is done. Also.. as DrVenture pointed out.. there are 2 gun holsters.. but since I need that space for my controls.. they will have to be covered. :-\ I didn't get a pic of the tv yet..(Tomorrow.. I promise! ;D) but I have gutted the machine of the Jamma connector, and some extra wiring that will just be in the way. I also took the old monitor steel plates out.. they would have gotten in the way of the tv. Ill be screwing in the mount for the tv tomorrow.. then getting serious about button layouts.. time to fire up the printer! Ill be using the slagcoin website for my button layouts. More to come soon! Thanks for the comments and questions!
Woodstock:
UPDATE TIME!
Sorry it took so long, but ive been really swamped this week/end. Its spring.. and that means more work for me!
Anyway.. I have spent my extra time this week fitting the tv, putting on casters, mounting and sawing various peices.. although none on the control panel yet. I was particularly interested in getting the tv mounted .. which took some creative thinking.. There was a square wood frame that the bezel sits against.. that was not letting the tv go in all the way.. So I sawed that enough so the tv would fit where it was supposed to.. and then to my surprise... the back of the case was about an inch too much for the back to fit on properly. So I got to thinking... we might have a dremel... sure enough.. we did.. So I took a bit from the dremel.. and in pulse like fashion, I cut out a notch so I would have that extra clearance. Of course I did this while the BACK OF THE TV was off. I put the tv back in.. and bam.. perfect :applaud:.. back goes on.. and the back of the tube is not reaching out of the back of the exposed area too much. Before doing all the tv work though.. I put on some 3inch swivel casters with brakes... I set them in a little bit.. so I had enough room to bolt them inside. They work great. Tonight.. I put the board from the pc in.. and hooked everything up, just to see how everything is going to come together. This week I am probably going to purchase the controls. Here are some pics!
The clearance on the cut tv case, and the back of the machine. (Dont ask why its so small.. I uploaded it at the same size as the rest.. :dunno )
Back of the tv
Front view
Another front view
Brand of tv
The casters on the bottom
Inside.. rough version.. it wont be this messy when I am 100% done
Before the tv was put in the machine.. I had to test it.. so here was a test game. Of course its much better in person.
emphatic:
Nice! :applaud:
Woodstock:
--- Quote from: emphatic on April 11, 2011, 06:51:58 am ---Nice! :applaud:
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Thanks emphatic!
I tried a couple games out last night.. I am using an s-output from the pc card, to a regular video in for now... I tried getting the s-video input to work on the tv.. but its not listed with channel up or down... but the component is. I tested out Asteroids.. and I could hardly tell that I was shooting anything.. you couldn't really see the laser when I hit fire. Other games like Street Fighter look pretty good. I guess what im getting at... is there any way to make this look more authentic? Ive tried it on my flat panel and it looks really decent (Asteroids). Also.. whats the best resolution for a tv put in a machine? Thanks for the views and advice!
thatpurplestuff:
In regards to Asteroids not looking very good, I'm guessing it's an issue of MAME trying to emulate the vector graphics. Reading another post on this forum had the following advice for this issue:
Put the following information into the MAME vector.ini file.
brightness 1.0
contrast 2.0
gamma 3.0
This should make the contrast of the vector graphics and the black background more stark and will hopefully help the visibility issues you are having. Also, the lower the screen resolution you are running at = the more raster issues you will have with vector-based games. Higher resolutions should theoretically reduce these issues.
Here is the thread I referred to -> http://forum.arcadecontrols.com/index.php?topic=92176.0
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