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Arcade Invaders Cabinet (was Street Fighter)
Termin8tor:
--- Quote from: Seith on April 11, 2012, 05:08:46 pm ---I really like this design, although I am personally going for a variant of the Jakobud cab design... really digging the candy-esque receeded marquee. Any reason you decided to go this route over a more traditional design?
Also, where are your speakers going?
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The main reason for this design was size, the whole cab stands a touch over 5ft and I didn't have a specific design in mind when I started planning I just went with what I wanted in a cab. It wasn't until I started building it that I could see the candy-esque look but also a bit of vewlix and taito in there as well. I guess this cab is inspired by all the cabs Ive seen on here and picked the things I like.
The speakers will be going under the CP area above the coin door partially out of sight with volume control in the middle.
nintendoid:
have you tried CPS2shock... they have a lot of Street Fighter and also other fighter games artwork, perhaps you could mimic one of these styles for the main game you want to play on the cabinet.
Termin8tor:
Eureka ;D. I bought a coin mech off ebay one that copies the coin in the mech but it just wasn't what I wanted, so after some research I bought a mars ms111 (eBay) and quattro 1 credit board (http://www.andysarcade.net/) hooked them up to my bartop and bingo worked first time. Now 20p gives me 1 credit, 50p-3 credits and £1-7 credits.
Termin8tor:
Small update. Ive fitted the coin door, applied the top coat of paint (white gloss) and worked on some of the internals.
Termin8tor:
Fitted the screen today and wired up the speakers. All internals motherboard, HDD and video card are working as they should and didn't take much time as I stripped them out of my first build (weecade clone). Didn't see the point of keeping it as it probably would just sit there gathering dust. Once my son came home from school he tested it out for me, at the time of writing this its been on for about 6 hours so guess that will do. Things to do next week: speaker covers, fit joysticks and buttons, design print marquee + CP, fit light in marquee area. I have spare cathode lights but like results people are getting using LED's so unsure.
Some pics (buttons and Marquee are temporary)