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SPACE WARS BARTOP, dedicated to vertical shmups

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Le Chuck:

--- Quote from: Eldritch1969 on November 17, 2012, 03:52:19 pm ---
For the moment, the speakers seem to work just fine. Could you be more precise about the possible issues in the future ?

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Sure, I have found that speakers in the top will often get damaged or wear out due to dust collection or things placed on the top of the cabinet pressing down on them.  I also find that sound quality is better with the speakers pointed down or forward/back rather than straight up but that is more personal preference.  I also think that the speakers in the top distracts from the nice clean appearance you have with your design and look more like an afterthought than a conscientious design decision.  Again, that's personal preference so take it or leave it.  Overall great first outing!

ChadTower:

I dig it.  Can you tell/show us more about the software?

Eldritch1969:
Sure. As for the front-end, I use Mala, which is nice because it takes into account vertical games and rotates them accordingly.

I have also modified my theme by linking the game screenshot shown for each game with a video of said game, so that it starts a few seconds after the screenshot.

OS is a stripped-down XP, and I have also tweaked the boot process so that nothing appears before Mala itself. I had chosen to get rid of the pointer, but it proved a bit of a PITA when I had to reconfigure certain things, so I brought it back.

What else ? I have only Mame installed, version 0.145, because I like simplicity and functionality. Well, it is rather a no-nag version, made by a French guy and called EmuCR_Houba_0145. This is a dedicated bartop, so it will stay like that. Never noticed there were so many vertical shooters (installed around 250 of them). There are a few that are PCengine/Turbografx 16 that I will miss but heck, they're to be played on original hardware, which I have !

I will make a video of the fully-working and decorated thing later and link to it.
Thanks for your interest.

Eldritch1969:
Update : went with carbon fiber sheet on the control panel and put really good leafswitch buttons from GGG. Plus a zippyy also with smooth switches :

Eldritch1969:
Bartop nearly finished. I just have to add "cosmetic" touches to the sides, which means I will probably go with the router again and cut the space to put little ceramic tiles in the shape of the pixel-based bartop's name : Space Wars. This will done on the lower part of it.

Here goes one photo of the front. Bartop is now fully playable with some 250 vertical shooters (didn't think there were so many good ones).

Also added the T-SLG to add scanlines. It's really a big plus.

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