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stalemate:
Hi!

I've started posting on here a little bit here and there and I figured I should announce my project. I'm building a pretty simple upright cabinet for 2 players. My cabinet is heavily inspired by gamester's arcade galaxy. I read a lot of it when I was still in "lurk" mode on this forum. It will end up looking a whole lot like that one except a different control panel and artwork.

I'm going with the black paint and the chrome t-molding and trying to get one of those shiny shiny finishes like gamester has and like on bella's arcade.

My CP will be a simple 2 player with 2 joysticks and associated buttons. No trackball or spinner, just sticks and buttons. I'll probably pay a ton of fighters and beat em ups on it.

I'm using an old TV for the screen and an old single core 2.5ghz machine running tinyxp for the computer.

As far as a theme, I'm thinking some kind of Star Wars art and the cab is tentatively entitled "The Force" but I haven't settled on that. And I'm still rolling art ideas around in my head.

I've been building it with a friend and we set aside one night a week to work in his garage. We can typically get in 2 or 3 hours at a time and after 12 sessions here is where we are...




And with the TV sitting in it...




I have all the buttons and encoders and stuff on order, so as soon as we get it all enclosed it will go back to my house for the painting portion of the project while our weekly work sessions focus on the CP building effort.

Gamester:
Looks like you're off to a good start.  I look forward to watching your progress!   :cheers:

wol-nz:
Nice start - I love the idea of TVs in cabs - that massive 4:3 resolution can't be beat.
Are you de-casing it (i'm always worried about electrical shock on them)

Picking a name can take ages - and it has to be right otherwise the theme suffers for it.
What's the color scheme - we could throw out some ideas.
Jedi Cab
sabre wars
Chewbacca chaos
Darthcadious...
 (hrm maybe not)

emphatic:
Looks great so far. Star Wars themed fighting cab, eh? How about - "Empire Strikes Back" with some sort of black gloved fist punching out? :afro:

Corbo:
Looking good, and good to see the TV in it.  Years ago on my full size cab my monitor packed up and I replaced it with a TV, couldn't tell the difference and it was safer to work with.  It looks the perfect size too.

What to name it?  Star wars is a good theme plenty of artwork available.  "StarCade"?

ChewieCade?  Cover it in fur, job done.

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