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Terminator 2 Cabinet to ??? Project - [It's Alive]
Yohan:
About a year and a half ago I bought a bare bones Terminator 2 cab cheap. No game, no monitor, and almost no wires left to speak of. Since then it has been sitting in my garage waiting for me to get off my butt and do something with it. The art was in bad shape and while I like the game I really don't want to keep the terminator theme. This is going to go in our family room so I want to keep it somewhat kid friendly. I have seen a few conversions of a T2 cabinet where they put the monitor right in front. I love the original location of the monitor where it faces up and bounces off of a mirror. I am going to keep that style. There is this cool optical illusion that makes it look like the monitor is somehow floating behind the cab.
I bought a 26 inch LCD computer monitor for it but it just didn't look big enough and I could not find a way to make the picture flip horizontally for the mirror. Mame will flip just fine but I really want to be able to see it correctly for Daphne, the front end, and maintenance. So I have decided on a 27 inch tv with an RGB connector.
The whole cab needs work and I have finally made some progress. I put on a coat of paint only to realize that I did not sand well enough so that is why the paint has new sanding marks in it. I have the old mirror so that is cool but it looks as if someone dumped some sort of thick oil in parts of it and baked it on. Other parts look like rust marks so I am planing on ordering a new one.
Any one have any ideas on what art might look good on it?
newmanfamilyvlogs:
The CP on T2 is pretty high, flat, and small. How do you plan on re-doing it?
As for art and family friendly.. Pick one or two games that you enjoy and commission on of the various artists on the forums to draw family members as characters in the game in a style similar to the games original artwork.
Yohan:
I knew that it was a little high but I wan't sure how much. I did some measurements and it looks like it is about 6 inches higher then most control panels. I could probably angle it down a bit by removing some wood from the front. As far as the size, I think it will be ok. The original control panel hangs over a few inches giving arm rest room and the width is 25 inches. Plenty of room for a street fighter layout and if I'm lucky I can squeeze a track ball in the middle.
It looks like this guy kept it at the standard height. I wonder how it worked out for him.
http://www.mechanicalarcade.com/ (scroll down)
Yohan:
The coin door was rusty and had a cracked coin return button. The coin mechs were for tokens. When I was a kid most of the arcade games that I got to play were in the pizza shops, sub shops, department store lobbies, and bowling allies. They all took quarters so that brings back the most memories to me.
Here is the coin door now after 4 coats of fine textured finish Rust-Oleum flat black spray paint. I also put in new coin return buttons, locks, and quarter coin mechs. If you look close you will see that someone added a button to the right of the coin returns for free play. I want to have a separate coin up for player one and player two. I think that I am going to use the coin rejects hack for this. So now what to do with this extra button. I was thinking of using it to power on the computer since it is there anyway but I'm not sure if people might accidentally hit it during game play. :dunno
DCsegaDH:
Use it as a pause button maybe?
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