The star empire strikes back wars

[yotsuya]

The plan is a repro. I have the mdf cut, the parts I need, and the computer ready to go. Look for it Spring 2013!

[mlenardon]

Beautiful job.  Have you tried Fire Fox, Stun Runner or Road Blasters in that cab by Atari that use the Yoke?

Michael

[floriske.nl]

Beautiful work indeed! Really like the artwork and the fact it's none symmetrical.   

[jackiabu]

what a beauty...great job

[rockyrocket]

@yotsuya sweet, can not wait - what have you decided to do about the marquee?.
I ask as I maybe redo mine from bent plexi to more match the curves of the original, so much for being finished nearly a year ago ehh.
@mlenardon yes love firefox and stun runner but not road blasters so much , things like tac scan and afterburner and also paperboy ar other favs.
Most of the flyer and drivers are playable you just need to except maybe the controls have differing degrees of rotation.
Edit - think I will just keep tha marquee as is and resist the temptation to keep revisiting finished cabs - so its still finished - honest.




EDIT, 2014 - So I will not bump this old thread but thought the recent changes made to the cab were worth documenting.

A new front end has taken over and I now use GameEx with a custom skin myself and Le Chuck put together.
You can find more info and download links HERE, I also boxed in the second screen and am much happier with how this looks.
All the changes can be seen in the video below.

[yotsuya]

@yotsuya sweet, can not wait - what have you decided to do about the marquee?.
I ask as I maybe redo mine from bent plexi to more match the curves of the original, so much for being finished nearly a year ago ehh.
@mlenardon yes love firefox and stun runner but not road blasters so much , things like tac scan and afterburner and also paperboy ar other favs.
Most of the flyer and drivers are playable you just need to except maybe the controls have differing degrees of rotation.
Edit - think I will just keep tha marquee as is and resist the temptation to keep revisiting finished cabs - so its still finished - honest.

Rocky-

I've got a good idea on how to build the original. Some of the guys at KLOV have been pretty helpful in that regard.

I actually went to a local place yesterday that has the upright, and with the owner's permission, I measured and photographed the cab for accuracy. I wanna do this right! 

[rockyrocket]

Yep I am bumping/updating this old thread, but I feel comfortable doing this because I think the changes are interesting enough.

So as I seem to not be able to leave this cab alone and also never really being happy with the pinball coin door,
it was swapped out for a more fitting over-under design, along with a new lighted front panel.






Could not resist also playing some more with the AHK script that syncs the trench run animation on the second screen and added an LED lightshow
With LEDblinky as seen in the video below.

This got me thinking about what other ingame triggers could be used to extend the script and remembered that when reaching 8 and 2 shields there is a bit of R2D2 related dialogue.
So I`ve decided to make an astromech rotating topper for the cab figuring R2 can react when reaching these shield points.

The mechanism itself is done its just a case of painting the dome, something that is proving frustrating with a bad choice of silver paint.
Chrome paint gave a very good result but just would not take either tape or other paint well as seen in the photo.






I think though that I will replace the lampshade that is being used as a dome with a stainless steel bowl from ikea so its not a great loss,
may even cut up the shade to make the dome bumps.
Making a mdf radar eye may be a challenge though we shall see?.

[Le Chuck]

Use styrene and low temp hot glue for the radar eye. Trust me. I can send you my cut plans.

[rockyrocket]

Use styrene and low temp hot glue for the radar eye. Trust me. I can send you my cut plans.

Great idea! , that seems like it will be easier than my plan of steaming mdf.

Have all the plans myself just need to scale them down to 200mm, also have a pre made fiberglass dome to reference (not sure I will build a droid but picked it up cheap on ebay)
Not even sure what I will do with the dome - think I`m scared a droid will turn into a money pit.
Then again I have also found some code that works with a webcam to make R2 follow you with his gaze.

[Mr Wilson]

great build mate
and I'm liking the upgrades you've been doing
that's the thing with building your own cab they are never really"finished"

[rockyrocket]

that's the thing with building your own cab they are never really"finished"

Yeah I hear you on that one .

Pretty much finished the topper, just need to add some more battle scars and work out how to make a holo projector?

I was planning to have him react to voice commands with Voxcommando but it will not work with xp, so need to think on that some more.

Still need to script him reacting to triggers in starwars, but I do though have a fun "test" script that maps rotation to yoke movements.

So a bit more tinkering is needed but yet again its almost done - until I think of something else.

[Le Chuck]

Holo projector on the cheap:

Rubber feet for table legs or can ends. Available in 4 packs of various sizes at HD.

Plastic ball cut in half. Check toy dept for lawn sets or baby toys 

Sand down as needed, glue, and paint it up.

[rockyrocket]

Holo projector on the cheap:

Rubber feet for table legs or can ends. Available in 4 packs of various sizes at HD.

Plastic ball cut in half. Check toy dept for lawn sets or baby toys 

Sand down as needed, glue, and paint it up.

Good man, I knew you would help!.
I am not looking to be at all accurate with this so am thinking just a bottle cap maybe as its not full sized.

I did see a really good method where someone used the top of a thin hairspray can and milled some other bits - cant find it now though, think it may of been a french blog?.

[rockyrocket]

Could not resist a video - still tweaking it, but this is basically it .

[Generic Eric]

That is cool

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[PL1]

Scott

[Generic Eric]

How many different things display on your mini monitor?

[rockyrocket]

Crumbs GE did not expect this to get a bump again - been quietly updating it without bumping it myself, thanks for the interest though  .

There is a looping millennium falcon targeting display video that starts with the front end, and the T-65 trench run video is triggered within star wars for the duration of the run ten it reverts to the original looping vid.
Although thinking about it GameEx the front end has a plugin the could change the image on the second screen for each game - maybe if I can stop playing elite for a bit that could get set up.

Talking of that second screen the cab is now on its third one (at least they are cheap) the CRT degaussing itself fried the others, so now it has an LCD in it  .
Thought about wiring a lightsaber replica to it as well to react to the game and maybe the duels in trilogy arcade, and also set up voice attack to make the droid have speech recognition.
Just can not let this one be it seems  .