ShoRyuKade 2.0

[Malenko]

Edit: decided to call it ShoRyuKade (for now)


The good:
Monitor has a great picture, just needs some minor adjustments, I dont see any burnin either, weut!
Perfect 360 controllers, I think these things retail for more than I paid for the cab
cab is very sturdy, and since it was in a Laundromat it actually smells GOOD, like fresh linen
looks like it has a fairly new switching power supply in it (last pic)
Free CPS2 kick harness!

The bad:
cab is kinda beat up, has a buncha holes I'll need to patch
The wiring is a mess, but that's not exactly a tough thing to fix
Bezel is borked
Marquee has gapper tape all over it and will need to be replaced, I salvaged the translight
Marquee light needs replaced, it works but its LOUD
Monitor glass has DEEP key scratches
Tmolding is shot.

enough text, here's the money shots:













Its gonna stay in the garage so I can take it out to the drive way for sanding /painting /etc
 

[Nephasth]

Run N Gun!

[Malenko]

Run N Gun!

Yup, some awesome guy sold it to me.
I was waiting for the download and conversion of the attract videos to finish, but its been going for over 8 hours. If only MaLa played MP4s (I cant hit the website and dont have the beta)



I've been working on game lists, even though I have almost the entire romset for the mame build I have (.141), its still too daunting to have 19,000 games to pick from. Anyone have any example game lists in MaLa format?

[TopJimmyCooks]

I just went through the exercise of buying a lamp, starter and replacement line filter for a noisy florescent on a ms pac.  just go get the $8 undercab 18" fluorescent at the hardware store and have done. 

[HoBoJoe]

Why isn't your garage full of pinball machines?

Or an awesome Porsche?

[Malenko]

Why isn't your garage full of pinball machines?

Can't afford the free shipping from San Antonio, Texas


Ok, so I pulled the guts from another computer I had sitting around, Athlon X2 6400+ 4,GB of Ram, 500GB HD, and an Nvidia 9800GT and a Corsair 520W PS; should run mame and the Taito games just fine. Not sure I can get SFxT running at a low enough res to play on the arcade monitor haven't bothered to try yet. I got all that mounted to the slide out board from the Dynamo cab along with the Jpac.  I couldn't find a good way to mount the DVD drive to I screwed it into the hard drive bracket and covered it with electrical tape for aesthetics. I already have MaLa and most of the game lists made, I can always RDP into the machine for additional changes over the network.

enough jibber jabber, here's more pix:

The Dynamo slide board:


Power supply mounted:


motherboard stand offs installed:


motherboard installed (w/giant HSF):


hard drive mounted (using a USB case frame, hey, its all I had):


Stand offs for the Jpac, doubled up in height:


everything installed:


everything installed, different view:



Now the power strip is held in with a cable hook (plastic hook with a nail in it) over top the cord. the screws just keep it from sliding around. It will be laying on its back so I don't for-see it moving at all. I used extra screws to "box it in place" I'm not dumb enough to put a screw through a power cord , heh.   Next step is making sure all this works in the cab, then I redo the sides and order new buttons and T molding.

[HoBoJoe]

I might have a bracket for you at the house so you don't have to use electrical tape on the CD drive. Remind me when I'm not being lazy and I'll take a look as well as get you some connectors.

[Malenko]

I might have a bracket for you at the house so you don't have to use electrical tape on the CD drive. Remind me when I'm not being lazy and I'll take a look as well as get you some connectors.

got the bracket, no more electrical tape, heh. No pix of that yet, I'm waiting for the EDID dongle from germany. So I pulled the buttons and plexi from the CPO:



Gotta figure out a way to drill a new 7 button template per player, prolly cut most of that out and hope the plexi can support the buttons :/

[Malenko]

Looking good, Chad.

Thanks Xiaou2

[Acids]

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WOW, so this cabinet has been retro-Fitted a few times.    Its like mice have been eating though that thing.
Personally id leave what you can.   Perspex sitting even on this will be strong enough to support button mashing  ( unless you have LEAD  hands )

[Malenko]

So had to go to Lowe's to get a new filter for my fridge, so I figured I'd snag some plexi while I was there.

2 sheets was $48 and the guy was nice enough to do multiple cuts without giving me much grief, and he actually cut straight lines.  He wouldn't/couldn't do the angles of the CP, so I bought a plastic cutting knife for $5. Since I had 2 extra CP plexis cut, I might just take one over to my grandpas shop and have him cut it on a table saw, although my cut wasnt too shabby. I'm prolly gonna run the dremel along the end so its more flush.

Guess I need to hire snake to do some artwork or something.

new plexi screen and marquee:


Control panel:


and another ISO shot:



next up, casters and fixing up the sides.

[BurgerKingDiamond]

scroll down to the bottom if you want to see how I retrofitted my panel. It's the same situation you're in.

http://forum.arcadecontrols.com/index.php?topic=119420.0

[Malenko]

scroll down to the bottom if you want to see how I retrofitted my panel. It's the same situation you're in.

http://forum.arcadecontrols.com/index.php?topic=119420.0

Great job on that, that's going to be my last resort. I think I can just acrylic over the Swiss cheese, but if it doesn't hold, I'll do that.

In other news, EDID dongle shipped 4 days ago, according to the email I got from arcadeshop.de  Ive asked SNAAAAAKE to do the art, I'm waiting on a template so I can get the drilling done. KI2 marquee can be a place holder for the top. Once he sends the template I'll drill the holes and mount the buttons/sticks and see how it holds up. I wanna use him but if I dont get the template by tomorrow I'll PM someone else

[Nephasth]

...some LED'ed joystick light thingies? I just need 2 =D lol

Is this build going where I think it's going?

[Malenko]

Where do you think its going?

its gonna have less wiring than your cab, for sure.

[Nephasth]

LED controls?

[Malenko]

LED controls?

naw, nothing like what you have, I just wanted to light the "stickholes" blue to match the buttons and what not. You set the bar WAAAAYYYYYYY too high when it comes to lighting a cab up =)  

oh yeah, my EDID came in, weut!

[Malenko]

so I used my KI machine to make the button template:



then I did the same for player 2. I put the plexi back on the panel and marked off what needed to be trimmed. I ended up taking a hand saws-all and trimming the metal back. then I wrapped it in black leather texture vynil (mostly just to cover the butchered panel) as a place holder till I figure out the artwork.

I think it turned out rather well:





I also bought casters but they can wait until tomorrow or later in the week, my back hurts from crouching over for almost 2 hours to get the panel squared away.

[Malenko]

so yeah umm DVI to VGA adapter, EDID dongle, VGA cable:


still cant get soft15 to install :/



so I put one of the sticks in:

same p360 stick, just different shaft.

I also uncovered the plexi for the monitor, need to make a new bezel still though, old one looks like crap.

[Malenko]

so in light of soft 15 not working (and no response from Sailor Sat) , I may be putting a different PC in there running XP with a 6800GT card (no dongle required) should still be plenty enough to run most MAME games, we'll see. Cant wait to mount a different PC, wheeeeee

[sharpfork]

Project looks great so far!
I have two of those cabs and love them.
FYI you can squeek a 27" crt in that cab hanging off the factory mounts.

[Le Chuck]

Lookin' sharp thus far.  Gonna be a beast when you're through.  That is a pretty sweet chain of adapters and dongles you got going on there too. 

[Malenko]

spent a while yesterday rewiring that rats nest of a control panel:


moved the jpac to its new location:


and, the one thing I thought was going to go smoothly, didnt:

I think I need to bridge the hsync and vsync to C sync ; cant wait to blow up this monitor

[HaRuMaN]

Needs more tuner spray...

[Malenko]

Needs more tuner spray...

filled it with blinker fluid, then rebooted 3 times:


actually it was a resolution issue, this WG 25K7171 hates a TON of resolutions and Im gonna hafta go through and remove a bunch of them from soft15.  Ive had quite a few arcade monitors and this is the one I like the least by a lot.


so fired up KI2 just to see...... wait that's not right....



stupid "stretch using hardware" was on!

a lot of collapse at the top of the screen, its not like that when playing PCBs, wtf is up with 7171s?!

here's the PC, no DVD drive cause I dont need one. totally different computer than what I started with. This is a core2duo 2.6GHz per core (E5200 cpu) and 4 GB of RAM running windows XP Pro SP3:


here's a pretty good shot of the wiring, I ended up having to redrill the green button's hole and moving it up about 3 inches, where it was at you couldn't hit it from the inside:

[Nephasth]

a lot of collapse at the top of the screen, its not like that when playing PCBs, wtf is up with 7171s?!

Have you tried adjusting the 50/60Hz pot?

[Malenko]

I'll be doing that tomorrow, and trying to channel the wires in the cab a little better. The more I mess around with this arcade monitor the more I love LCDs

[HaRuMaN]

The more I mess around with this arcade monitor the more I love LCDs

[Sparkolicious]

BWAHAHAHAHA! 

[Malenko]

whipped up a control panel (well stole it from teh googles) resized to fit and actually did whip up a marquee (using UDON art) and had it printed at kinkos fedex for $16

I think it turned out rather well.

CPO:


Marquee:


printed out on my desk at work:


should be installed tonight!

[HoBoJoe]

Let me know when you need me to come over and break it in....

[TopJimmyCooks]

Don't let Yotsuya bust your chops for calling your 'cade a "-Cade"  or in this case, a "Kade".   

[Malenko]

Don't let Yotsuya bust your chops for calling your 'cade a "-Cade"  or in this case, a "Kade".   

last MAME I built for me was Mortal Kabinet, lol
This is machine #4, does that count as an arcade?

Here is the marquee installed:


and here it is lit up:


heres the control panel, havent added the art yet, and theres some plastic shavings between the acrylic and the panel:


and here's everything as it stands now:

[HoBoJoe]

Stop being lazy and put the CP art on!

[Nephasth]

Stop being lazy and put the CP art on adjust that 50/60Hz pot!

+1!

[Malenko]

Stop being lazy and put the CP art on adjust that 50/60Hz pot!

+1!

sadly I adjusted that pot, it made the top worse one way and the bottom worse the other way, I think this 22 year old monitor (looked at the manufacture date sticker, lol)  needs some new caps :/

CP art will prolly go on tomorrow Im trying to get some Diablo 3 time in before the power goes out

[Nephasth]

---smurfy---. At least cap kits are cheap and pretty easy to do.

Im trying to get some Diablo 3 time in before the power goes out

[Malenko]

---smurfy---. At least cap kits are cheap and pretty easy to do.

Im trying to get some Diablo 3 time in before the power goes out

really bad thunderstorms due all night

[emphatic]

 Nicely done!

[Malenko]

so CPO is installed, took a freekin HOUR

pinned it between the plexi and the CP:


cut the holes: (and trimmed the corners)


tada!


I think I need new P1 and P2 start buttons:



so other than making my mala skin and layout (and making more game lists) the cab is pretty much done. Only took a month! Now I can get back to work on my racing cab!