Greetings all! A while back I tried to make a consolized MVS in the shape of an ammo box from Metal Slug but unfortunately it broke after a fall. I was a bit deterred truly, but I persisted and tried and tried again. During one of my retries, I found an arcade board for an extremely reasonable price and purchased it. This made me rethink my project from something tied to a Neo Geo to a set up to one that could use a lot of different boards. Since I had a lot of the internal parts already, I only needed to purchase a few new parts.
The whole supergun is made from plywood, walnut and acrylic. To get the unique look of all the ply layers, I needed to make an original layer and then sandwich other ones on to build thickness. Each time I used a router to cut them flush to each other. There's nine layers of 1/2'' ( 12mm ) Baltic birch plywood. Baltic birch is a bit of a specialty plywood since it's made of tight hardwood layers with little to no voids internally and come in 5' by 5' sheets. Since the box is small, it really goes a long way. The wire grommet is self made as well on a wood lathe and was my first try at making something so small and with something with small walls too at nearly 1/8'' (3mm)
A lot of people who design electronics say make something you can take apart, and I followed that advice to a T. Both walnut faces are attached by a friction fit dowel. The back one has a board attached to it so I can mount all the electronic boards, for extra security I put threaded inserts in that and it screws in place from the bottom.
I had issues with using the DB-15 connectors that were shown in the last project and getting them to fit nicely. My solution to that was to use a larger connector that looks similar to the ones seen on a NES once done. I'll still wire them to be compatible with a Neo Geo controller though, and merely make an adapter for it to work.
Finally the controller. Its made from walnut and plywood just like the supergun so it can match. I used a Semitsu joystick and Sanwa buttons so I could make the controller thin as possible.
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