Stuff holding you up from intiating/completing your cab

[Donkbaca]

I'm surprised nobody has mentioned their soul crushing addiction to european fetish porn, or the terms of their house arrest, or the fact that the vintage ferrari they are restoring is taking up all the room in the garage....

its all just the same "i'm broke and my family is taking up all my free time" 

Are we really that boring?

[wonderalex]

Yes Donkbaca  - yes we are. 

Be seeing you,

WonderAlex

[Alpha17X]

I'm on a wait list for a vewlix, then I need to sand and paint it.  Hard knock life.

I think I night have the poorest excuse here.

[shanghaiguide]

I received my laser... printer (not quite what you think it is hehe), so haven't had time for the build.

I did get to cut the perspex light bezel with the laser printer (ok, its a 40watt computer driven cnc laser) which was quite cool, but I haven't gotten further than that.
Note to self, need to upload more pictures of the build process, as I have the side printed, the bezel, so its just another coat of paint, put stickers on, then finish Hyperspin install.

Only...

[DataWest]

Stepmania.   

[emb]

My wife likes to keep us busy. I cannot remember the last weekend I touched foot in my garage.

I have to put a rush on my mame cabinet...she's 4 months along.

[amendonz]

too busy putting out fires on oil rigs.  


or just lazy and since its playable the finishing touches are seeming less important. although should be done in the week hopefully. and then i'm starting my next build to ---fudgesicle--- around and make poor progress with  

[scofthe7seas]

too busy putting out fires on oil rigs.  

So, how do you feel about that Steven Seagal movie?

[yotsuya]

I actually have three future projects in my queue, but I have to wait for my 20 year old twin daughters to move out so I can turn one of their bedrooms into a gameroom. Only one of them is an actual arcade project, but the other two are influenced by this site. BYOAC -  It's inspirational!

[Donkey_Kong]

Well, I chewed on this response for awhile but here we go.

How about 'death of the person you were building the cabinet with'?

My brother passed away almost two years ago and we were about halfway finished with a game we were building for him.  The whole joke with the cabinet was we were building it flat out cheap as possible.  The computer monitor came out of the trash.  The wood was scavenged off a shipping pallet, the controls were purchased from Red China.  We probably had a couple in us when we were making the cuts, so it came out nice and wonky in my dad's garage.

Anyway, after he died, I couldn't touch it for weeks.  I finally brought it home and would do a little work on it from time to time.  Another BYOACer talked me out of trashing it.  The computer inside it was some surplus junk off e-bay, the encoder was the cheapest thing Groovy Game Gear sold.  It's bolted to a Harbor Freight tool stand that's been mounted to a board with castors from an office chair.  I got it playable but never really finished it.

As I got closer and closer to the two year anniversary it was really starting to bug me, so I started hopping on this a few weeks ago.  I got $7 'side art' from Poster Revolution that was some kind of Street Fighter junk that's 3D.  T-molding had been sitting in a box for months.  Another thread today got me thinking about some of the intermittent problems I was having with the PC...

So, tonight, I went home and it was time to finish this thing.  Hauled it outside, routed the t-molding slot, gave it a couple of coats of paint ($1 spray cans!), and glued the side art on.

Without further ado...


 

Sorry to hear about the loss of your brother. I don't know if you had mentioned it previously on byoac. Congrats on finishing the cab in his honor! Fricken sweet for the price too...

[TheChairmanH2K]

pinballjim, im sorry for the loss of your brother, my condolences to you and your family.  i lost my oldest brother this past new years eve so i can commiserate.  im glad you finished the cabinet.  again, my condolencs man. 


on topic: work, my dogs and my girlfriend taking forever to move in.  but when she does there will be 3 cabs in the dining room surrounding her dining room table