>2K13 - Procrastination Edition

[Player 3]

Bigger than a breadbox!

Good thing SMF is a popular forum engine for copy-pasting reasons.

The >2K12 3 is a modern-styled cocktail arcade cabinet with a style inspired by Web 3.0 websites. Technically, planning for >2K12 3 began right after the semester ended at the end of May, but barely any progress was made. Since then, I have been...acquiring games...and started working up a list of required parts. But enough of introductory crap, let's bring in some content!

Style

So here's the original sketch.


At least try Bagman.

After many a day on Dribbble, searching for inspiration and good colors, I have the palette down pat.

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As for parts, I have the Excel spreadsheet right here. Copy-pasted and formatted for your foruming convenience.

Parts

After popping in a bit of Diablo Swing Orchestra and Megadeth into the WinAmp, I buckled down to a crucial matter: the innards. MAME works in a rather funny way. Everything is emulated by the CPU. The video, the audio, the logic, all of it. A video card can emulate a CRT display using HLSL effects. You all know this. This impacts the performance generally. Most games work fluently enough at 800x600, medium-type HLSL effects, and a Radeon Mobility HD 4250 w/ 256MB VRAM. Unfortunately, shops really aren't carrying anything that powerful, so I'll settle on a Radeon 5450 w/ 2GB VRAM.

Arcade Items	Price	Quantity	Total
Miniature Round Pushbutton: Black Bezel, Red Center	$0.75	4	$3.00
Miniature Round Pushbitton: Black Bezel, White Center	$0.75	2	$1.50
Miniature Rectangle Pushbutton: Black Bezel, Red Center	$0.85	2	$1.70
Bone ball 38mm Balltop	$6.00	2	$12.00
Seimitsu LS-32 Arcade Joystick (8-way, switchable)	$17.95	2	$35.90
White, short-barrel, concave pushbutton	$1.25	4	$5.00
Zero-Delay Arcade Control Encoder (USB, gamepad)	$17.50	2	$35.00
Subtotal			$94.90

PC Items	Price	Quantity	Total
Hewlett-Packard DX5150 (Refurbished)	$99.99	1	$99.99
XFX One R-Series Radeon HD 5450 2GB DDR3 PCIe 2.0 x16	$54.99	1	$59.99
Dell 17" Monitor (Refurbished)	$64.99	1	$64.99
Inland ProHT 2 Channel 3 Watt USB Powered Speakers	$4.99	1	$4.99
Subtotal			$224.96

Total: $319.86
Good lord, and I thought I hated SQL's tables... This is still sans wood and printed art.

Future going-ons, pictures, and progress will be posted in this thread. Upon completion, I shall also prepare a game specifically for it. Maybe Udducted would be resurrected.

Code: (ROM Lister criteria) [Select]

'dipvalue name=Cocktail' & (buttons=2 | buttons=1 | buttons=0 | !buttons=) & (rotate=90 | rotate=270) & (joy2way | joy4way | joy8way | !'control type=') & !(49-way | triggerstick | top-fire | rotary | doublejoy8way | doublejoy4way | doublejoy2way | dial | trackball | pedal | lightgun | 'Analog') & (!sample_name= & !emulation=preliminary) &  !('BIOS' | mature | multiplay | tabletop | Fruit_Machines | Electromechanical)

[PL1]

Arcade Items	Price	Quantity	Total
Miniature Round Pushbutton: Black Bezel, Red Center	$1.10	4	$4.40
Miniature Rectangle Pushbutton: Black Bezel, Red Center	$1.30	2	$2.60

You mght want to get these from Divemaster here.  I understand his shipping is much more reasonable than Happ's.


Scott

[Player 3]

Arcade Items	Price	Quantity	Total
Miniature Round Pushbutton: Black Bezel, Red Center	$1.10	4	$4.40
Miniature Rectangle Pushbutton: Black Bezel, Red Center	$1.30	2	$2.60

You mght want to get these from Divemaster here.  I understand his shipping is much more reasonable than Happ's.


Scott

Ah. Saves a bit on money by 80¢, now I've decided to use smaller buttons for a 1UP and 2UP Start button pair after forgetting to included them. Updating the OP with this data.

Plus update time. Whipped up a probable control panel style.


Makes me realize my mediocrity with Illustrator, but mostly in color theory...

If this doesn't work out, I could brush up on some Photoshop skills with the new Bamboo tablet from my birthday a few days ago. Worth the hundred bucks. But right now, I'm preparing a model in Sketchup using older cocktail cabinets for reference. How comfortable were near-vertical control panels?

[MaxVolume]

How comfortable were near-vertical control panels?

Not very, so avoid if you have the choice.  My cocktail project is a Nintendo Popeye, and while it's not as uncomfortable as it looks, I wouldn't build one with that kind of panels if you're starting from scratch.

[Player 3]

Well. My new budget for parts has saved me some madd buxx, yo. The old one totaled for $94.90. Switching from a dedicated button array to a SHIFT button for administrative controls, that took away $5.45, dropping admin buttons to a measly 75¢ from $6.20. The SHIFT buttons go as follows:

SHIFT	+ A	Pause
	+ B	Exit Game
	+ ¢	Settings
	+ ⌘	(Soft) Reset Game

¢ = Insert Coin pushbutton
⌘ = Start pushbutton

Major and commonly-used commands have been placed in priority to the main gameplay buttons. Actually, I wonder if another small pushbutton could also be used for snapshots if I do a high score for a competition. I have an old PCI wireless card, so I can put >2K12 on the homenet network and place files in there. No more hassles of constantly removing parts to get to a USB port!

Going from two Seimitsu LS-32s to two generic brand saves on $18.90 thus making total on joysticks $17.00 now. Not including balltops, which I also picked a cheaper one to plain white instead of bone ball white.

As for an encoder, I may still have to get two Zero Delay encoders. Discussion shows that it works in a way that the PoV hat and the main axes cannot work simultaneously. Not going to do the extra work to make it onto one.

Anyway, my current parts budget runs at $55.75. That's almost forty bucks less than previously anticipated. Have some more Sketchup progress.
(For some reason, 11"x4" images do not keep a similar aspect ratio in Sketchup.)