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Jakobud:


--- Quote from: mvaughn on February 25, 2004, 12:58:30 am ---Does anyone have plans or drawings for a Gauntlet Legends cabinet?

http://klov.com/game_detail.php?letter=&game_id=7926

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My plans on my website for TMNT, TMNT2, Simpsons etc, are all going to be very very similar to that cabinet (except the large marquee area).

Gumby:

Have you seen plans for these out there?  I think the guy how did them did an AMAZING job, they look beautiful...

They aren't exactally Poker machine conversions from what I can tell, and its different than the mini-Pac....

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=3275934196&category=13716&sspagename=STRK%3AMEBWA%3AIT&rd=1

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=3275935859&category=13716&sspagename=STRK%3AMEBWA%3AIT&rd=1

I'd love to get dimentions on these....the button/joystick layout, marquee placement, general stats are very nice...

-G

krick:


--- Quote from: Jakobud on February 24, 2004, 09:11:36 pm ---
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--- Quote from: Jakobud on February 22, 2004, 04:58:32 pm ---
--- Quote from: krick on February 21, 2004, 01:57:48 am ---I'd like to get accurate measurements for the control panel on a 25" Smash TV machine.  I guess a Total Carnage control panel might work as well.

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You are wanting the position of the joysticks or the actual dimensions of the shape of the control panel?

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I just want the spacing between the joystick centers to help in the design of my control panel...

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this is a very close approximation of the distances:

O <---P1---> O <---X---> O <---P2---> O

P1 = P2 = 6.5"
X = 5.0"

These are not exact but they are close.

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Thanks.  I took your picture into Paint Shop Pro, then perspective corrected and rotated it so I had an image that was roughtly perpindicular to the control panel.  Then I resized the width of the image to 28.75 inches and copied sections of the image between the joysticks to get an approximate distance.

This is what I come up with  (center to center measurements)...

P1 = P2 = 7"
X = 5.5"



patrickl:

I'm having some trouble getting the plans into CorelDRAW or Illustrator. Apparently both programs only support the other formats of Autocad and not the DWF format. The only converters I could find need Autocad to work. Since the PDF and JPG both are bitmaps they don't convert to either vector program very well either.

I found that I could copy the drawing from the Autodesk Viewer, but that only copies the current view. Trouble is that when the current view is the entire image then the accuracy of the drawing is reduced. And if you zoom in you get the accuray, but then the image is of course cut off.

Am I missing something obvious here?

G@M3FR3@K:


--- Quote ---Have you seen plans for these out there?  I think the guy how did them did an AMAZING job, they look beautiful...

They aren't exactally Poker machine conversions from what I can tell, and its different than the mini-Pac....
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Those are usually referred to as BarTop or TableTop Arcade Cabinets.  Those seem to be made from scratch (custom made) from the seller.  He/She most likely applied all graphics/overlays manually.  I do not believe those are original cabinets.

Take a look further up at Menace's Minicade Plans.  You can use his plans as a basis, and customize the control panel to your liking.



You can take a look at Menace's Minicade here.

Here is a free set of MiniCab Plans.

IMHO, a bartop cabinet is better off being used for a less cluttered CP setup (ie. 1- 4 way joystick, 2-3 buttons - strictly for playing classic games) than an overcrowded 2-Player Streetfighter (fighter) setup, where both players will be cramped together on the narrow CP with very little elbow room.  But if you don't mind that, well go for it!  ;)

If your creative enough, you can create swappable panels for it like THIS.

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