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[ COMPLETED ] (Yet another) Pac Man Bartop- Christmas gift
Well Fed Games:
Not a whole lot to report... got some parts laid out, did some planning, and decased the TV (by the way, a 13" TV case fits on my head surprisingly well.... if I can get a clean neck hole cut out I might be a TV for Halloween ;D
Oh, and made a custom reject button insert. Reject button will be just for show, but I think will be a nice touch.
Unstupid:
Are you going to do a horizontal or vertical monitor? Does that arcade gold game thinggy even let you do vertical? Also, are you sure about that cabinet? I saw some pics of the finished unit and that bugger is huge! According to the dimensions it is 30" tall! That 13" monitor is going to drown in that cab. Maybe you can take all the dimensions and scale it down by 65-70%
Well Fed Games:
Yeah, all the games are horizontal. That is one thing I love about those things... plug & play + old TV makes a pretty straightforward project. The games that weren't originally vertical are just to the left with scores, etc. moved to the right.
Yeah, those plans are big, bigger than I remembered when I first checked them out months ago... they may have originally been for a 17" monitor, not sure. I am squeezing it down for sure, and making some changes (speakers will be on front rather than on marquee, monitor will be mounted instead of on shelf, etc.) I will probably do a mock-up with cardboard to make sure everything is nice and tight.
Ordered some parts for this project (and a future project) from Paradise Arcade, decided to go for a Sanwa JLW-TM-8 stick for this project, with a red balltop of course.
By the way, this will be a "whole family" gift! Thankfully they all should like it!
taylormadelv:
I have hacked several of these into cabinets, they are very nice units. Be ready to work with some tiny, tiny wires! The one thing that I have ot been able solve is how the unit shuts off video output after about 5-6 minutes if the unit is not touched. This is great for saving batteries but not so great if you want this to have an "attract mode" that stays up forever like a real arcade game. Either the circuit that cuts the video needs to found and bypassed or a switch needs to be activated on a regular basis automatically somehow to keep the unit from shutting off the video. If anyone has a possible solution for this, please let us know!
Good luck!
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