Author Topic: Project Space Invaders (100% Finished) (Read 8799 times)

jaharr01 · « **Reply #40 on:** March 15, 2014, 03:30:15 pm »

Thanks Delusional. I really like yours to.

jaharr01 · « **Reply #41 on:** March 19, 2014, 10:05:43 pm »

Being in the medical field you would think I would have enough sense not to try to work in garage with power tools while medicated with narcotic cough syrup

. I had a bad case of bronchitis so they gave me codeine cough syrup antibiotics and a steroid dose pack. Well the steroid dose makes you antsy and the cough syrup makes you a little out of it. So I didn't hurt myself but I made multiple mistakes and judgement error. So remember please don't take cough syrup and build arcades

. Well anyway everything came out ok in the end. I got my control panel finished. It was a bit of a job top mounting the trackball and joysticks. Here are the pics.

jaharr01 · « **Reply #42 on:** March 19, 2014, 10:07:23 pm »

One more pic

jaharr01 · « **Reply #43 on:** March 19, 2014, 10:10:17 pm »

not sure about the button colors or their placement yet, I didn't order enough red and black buttons

jaharr01 · « **Reply #44 on:** March 22, 2014, 06:07:15 pm »

I had a USB laptop fan sitting around so I had an epiphany

jaharr01 · « **Reply #45 on:** March 22, 2014, 06:12:04 pm »

Speaker mounts in top of the cab. A little primitive but will do the trick. Also I had an "uh oh" and drilled all the way through

jaharr01 · « **Reply #46 on:** March 22, 2014, 06:17:05 pm »

Here is the cold cathode POS I bought vs fluorescent. I may need another fluorescent fixture if it is not bright enough.One side was brighter so I ripped it out and bought a fluorescent fixture.

jaharr01 · « **Reply #47 on:** March 22, 2014, 06:48:09 pm »

Here is the marquee mounted and the brackets painted red. I'm not sure I like that red, may paint black.What do you all think? I'm waiting on my switching power supply. I going to change the buttons over red and blue LEDs. with clear 1 and 2 players buttons I bought some carbon fiber vinyl to put on the inside walls on each side of the monitor. additionally I bought a 4 inch piece black powder coated plate to put on as a kick plate.

DeLuSioNal29 · « **Reply #48 on:** March 22, 2014, 07:40:30 pm »

Looks awesome so far. Can't wait to see it finished!

jaharr01 · « **Reply #49 on:** March 22, 2014, 11:08:44 pm »

thanks delusional, Do you like the red or black better on the marquee brackets? I can't make my mind up

jaharr01 · « **Reply #50 on:** March 27, 2014, 11:19:47 am »

Project update
1. I ordered a 50000k pot to extend the wires of the control module of the Logitech LS21
2. I painted the marquee brackets black instead of red
3. I formatted my computer and installed a lite version of win 7

mike boss · « **Reply #51 on:** April 09, 2014, 09:23:04 pm »

Cabinet looks great !
BTW ............custom MaLa layout is in your mailbox !
I think it will look really good in this machine.

Thank you for the opportunity.

jaharr01 · « **Reply #52 on:** May 06, 2014, 10:24:16 pm »

Well I have been busy. Haven't posted much but it is finally finished. I had some computer issues and some monitor issues.The computer I was going to use wasn't fast enough to play some PC games so I replaced it with my HTPC computer which is a newer AMD with 4g of ram and a new video card. I got a Raspberry PI for my HTPC. I snapped the switch board in half on my 27 in monitor and couldn't get it working so I bought a 32" TV at wallyworld. I added some diamond plate to the front and added some LED's also. My other arcade I used Maximus Arcade, but I decided to use MALA instead. I had a guy on here make me a personalized MALA Background. Well here it is

jaharr01 · « **Reply #53 on:** May 06, 2014, 10:26:10 pm »

Here is More views

jaharr01 · « **Reply #54 on:** May 06, 2014, 10:31:50 pm »

More pics

jaharr01 · « **Reply #55 on:** May 06, 2014, 10:33:40 pm »

Sorry for the crappy pics I'll post some better ones with my DSLR

markc74 · « **Reply #56 on:** May 08, 2014, 01:27:45 pm »

Really nice cab dude. Artwork really makes it pop.

It's making me rethink the black and white theme on mine!

How's the screen? I'm guessing a 32" widescreen must be giving you close to a 27" 4:3 picture (assuming your not stretching the classics anyway )

jaharr01 · « **Reply #57 on:** May 09, 2014, 08:00:45 am »

Yea that's probably about right. No I don't stretch them it makes them look unrealistic. I use bezels from mame artwork. It fills in the. Void nice. I wish there was a way to put bezels around other emulators besides mame. If anybody knows a way let me know because I couldn't figure out how to do it in mala.

stigzler · « **Reply #58 on:** May 11, 2014, 05:30:56 am »

Tidy build. Nice looking cab.

jaharr01 · « **Reply #59 on:** May 12, 2014, 10:29:17 pm »

Thanks. It's kind of relief to have done, but I enjoyed building it


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