Author Topic: Mission Control Project: 5 years on, what to do with the leftovers? (Read 695050 times)

shmokes · « **Reply #1240 on:** April 21, 2009, 08:09:40 pm »

Quote from: Griffin on January 28, 2009, 02:41:51 pm

Mission Control takes MAME cabs to a HNL. It's not even done and it still makes me feel inadequate.

What does the H stand for?

patrickl · « **Reply #1241 on:** April 22, 2009, 09:31:48 am »

Quote from: shmokes on April 21, 2009, 08:09:40 pm

Quote from: Griffin on January 28, 2009, 02:41:51 pm

Mission Control takes MAME cabs to a HNL. It's not even done and it still makes me feel inadequate.

What does the H stand for?

Hypothetical?

Pixelhugger · « **Reply #1242 on:** April 22, 2009, 11:53:08 am »

Well played.

danny_galaga · « **Reply #1243 on:** June 05, 2009, 03:05:49 am »

Just wondering, have you finished this, Pixel? I haven't looked in for ages, and i don't quite feel like going through 32 pages to find out...

HaRuMaN · « **Reply #1244 on:** June 05, 2009, 09:06:55 am »

Quote from: danny_galaga on June 05, 2009, 03:05:49 am

Just wondering, have you finished this, Pixel? I haven't looked in for ages, and i don't quite feel like going through 32 pages to find out...

Pfffft. He's not even close...

Mark70 · « **Reply #1245 on:** July 05, 2009, 10:13:24 pm »

Just making my anual check in.
My mame cabinet is definately not even close to the league pixel's is in, but I've built, use and broken (the computer, not the craftsmanship) mine since.
Sad to see a lot of the pictures are gone now.

Pixelhugger · « **Reply #1246 on:** July 06, 2009, 06:04:10 pm »

Hey Mark. Glad to see the continued interest. The missing "n" in anual makes it look really disturbing in a medical way.

Yikes! What pics are missing? That's a scary thought after this has survived so long. I did notice some text is missing, which really sucks. Does anyone know a good way to archive a thread like this? Y'know, so as to be able to save if for my children's children... provided the cab is done by then.

I apologize for the lack up updates. Not sure if I mentioned this before, but the top edges of the sides have hairline cracks that appear in the warm weather and close up in the dry cold. So I've been holding off on gluing up and sealing the beast until then season changes and the wood goes back to how it was when the panels were joined. Hopefully once sealed the moisture exchange will be minimized to prevent that much movement. Man, it's always something.

patrickl · « **Reply #1247 on:** July 06, 2009, 06:20:03 pm »

Quote from: Pixelhugger on July 06, 2009, 06:04:10 pm

Yikes! What pics are missing? That's a scary thought after this has survived so long. I did notice some text is missing, which really sucks. Does anyone know a good way to archive a thread like this? Y'know, so as to be able to save if for my children's children... provided the cab is done by then.

You can click on the "Print" button on the button of the page. This shows the whole thread in one page. Or maybe there is some preferences setting to show all replies on one page?

Pixelhugger · « **Reply #1248 on:** July 06, 2009, 06:40:53 pm »

Unfortunately that doesn't include images. Or should it?

Pixelhugger · « **Reply #1249 on:** July 06, 2009, 10:47:19 pm »

EDIT: added poll to choose artwork

patrickl · « **Reply #1250 on:** July 07, 2009, 03:58:34 am »

Quote from: Pixelhugger on July 06, 2009, 06:40:53 pm

Unfortunately that doesn't include images. Or should it?

No indeed it doesn't.

mpm32 · « **Reply #1251 on:** July 07, 2009, 11:12:49 am »

Quote

Not sure if I mentioned this before, but the top edges of the sides have hairline cracks that appear in the warm weather and close up in the dry cold. So I've been holding off on gluing up and sealing the beast until then season changes and the wood goes back to how it was when the panels were joined. Hopefully once sealed the moisture exchange will be minimized to prevent that much movement. Man, it's always something.

No worries, if you wait a little longer you'll be dealing with petrified wood.

AcidArmitage · « **Reply #1252 on:** July 07, 2009, 12:09:01 pm »

Quote from: mpm32 on July 07, 2009, 11:12:49 am

Quote
Not sure if I mentioned this before, but the top edges of the sides have hairline cracks that appear in the warm weather and close up in the dry cold. So I've been holding off on gluing up and sealing the beast until then season changes and the wood goes back to how it was when the panels were joined. Hopefully once sealed the moisture exchange will be minimized to prevent that much movement. Man, it's always something.

No worries, if you wait a little longer you'll be dealing with petrified wood.

dfmaverick · « **Reply #1253 on:** July 10, 2009, 05:08:43 pm »

Quote from: Pixelhugger on July 06, 2009, 06:04:10 pm

Does anyone know a good way to archive a thread like this? Y'know, so as to be able to save if for my children's children... provided the cab is done by then.

I can make it into a PDF for you. I did the first 5 pages and each page of the thread gets broken down into about 18 8.5x11 pages. The entire PDF looks like it will ONLY be about 600 pages and 12MB.

There used to be a site that I used to upload large files to share temporarily that would retain the file for about a month or a certain amount of downloads. Anyone know which site that is? I can't recall the name or see anything familiar when I search.

Petrified wood...hilarious!

sirwoogie · « **Reply #1254 on:** July 10, 2009, 05:17:54 pm »

Quote from: Pixelhugger on July 06, 2009, 06:04:10 pm

Yikes! What pics are missing? That's a scary thought after this has survived so long. I did notice some text is missing, which really sucks. Does anyone know a good way to archive a thread like this? Y'know, so as to be able to save if for my children's children... provided the cab is done by then.

Pixel,

You can be assured that if one day this forum does close down, Saint and I will have a full copy of it somewhere. As for the text formatting issues, I can't explain that, and it can happen in very rare instances. All I can say is that anything ultra critical make sure to keep what you wrote down, and then go back and fix it.

The other suggestion is to make yourself a wiki page and put it all there. You can also push the images all there to if you really want. In either case, it'll be stable. There is also of course a print button, but that will not capture the images (which I think is a bit of a bummer).

Let me know if there is something you need.

Epyx · « **Reply #1255 on:** August 12, 2009, 02:51:14 pm »

Wow I had no idea that this thread started in 2003 but then I vaguely recall seeing it as I would lurk from time to time.

Is the objective to finish this when it actually becomes a classic cab in its own right?

Sorry couldn't resist...

blueznl · « **Reply #1256 on:** August 14, 2009, 03:19:51 pm »

I like the *new* artwork

Pixelhugger · « **Reply #1257 on:** August 14, 2009, 06:54:05 pm »

As I've been updating the cabinet's artwork, the rule to "never fall in love with your first design" kept bothering me. Ultimately I decided to revisit the logo design to see where a fresh start might end up.

So below is the original logo (design1) and the potential replacement (design 2). There's a poll at the top of the page. I'd love to get the feedback of everyone here. I'm torn between both for a number of reasons. Please vote and let me know what you like/don't like. I'm especially interested in getting the opinion of people who aren't really familiar with the old design. I'm just too close to it at this point.

For what it's worth I posted the newly revised CP as well. The CP isn't affected by the logo design.

This is DESIGN 1:

This is DESIGN 2:

And the CP

javeryh · « **Reply #1258 on:** August 14, 2009, 09:36:11 pm »

Design 1 is so much better it's not even close!

Gamester · « **Reply #1259 on:** August 14, 2009, 09:45:32 pm »

Quote from: javeryh on August 14, 2009, 09:36:11 pm

Design 1 is so much better it's not even close!

+1

severdhed · « **Reply #1260 on:** August 14, 2009, 09:56:51 pm »

vrf · « **Reply #1261 on:** August 14, 2009, 10:43:26 pm »

The font choice of #2 is nice, but that rocket is just too much in the way. Maybe if you had the rocket as the giant background image instead of the planets.

As they stand, #1 is much better.

vrf · « **Reply #1262 on:** August 14, 2009, 10:44:51 pm »

The other reason that sticking with #1 is better is that it allows you time to actually BUILD the thing....

Endaar · « **Reply #1263 on:** August 14, 2009, 11:50:16 pm »

#1 seems to fit much better with the somewhat unusual lines of the cab. And FWIW this is from someone who hadn't looked at this thread up until a few days ago. Read the whole thing though...took half the day. LOL

Chicken McNobody · « **Reply #1264 on:** August 15, 2009, 01:06:27 am »

#1 is 110% more fantastical. . .

Yvan256 · « **Reply #1265 on:** August 15, 2009, 01:45:26 am »

Design #1 makes me think about Day of the Tentacle, probably because of the font and the "cartoonish" look of the overall design due to that font.

Design #2 makes me think about a more serious theme, probably not NASA-category but at least not cartoonish. The rocket and the motion curve would need to be redone/enhanced because they block the title too much. Not enough contrast or something, sorry if I'm so vague but visual design isn't a strong point of mine.

Epyx · « **Reply #1266 on:** August 15, 2009, 03:28:33 am »

Threw my vote in earlier for Design 1...I like the waviness of the font...much more in line with the curves/waves of your cab.

blueznl · « **Reply #1267 on:** August 15, 2009, 05:29:51 am »

I just changed my mind, stick with the old one...

TEKNYNE · « **Reply #1268 on:** August 15, 2009, 10:18:53 am »

Stick with #1

Billy_Goatfeet · « **Reply #1269 on:** August 15, 2009, 12:37:55 pm »

Peer pressure.....yeah #1 has it for sure.

Vebbo · « **Reply #1270 on:** August 16, 2009, 08:39:37 am »

#1, both are good thou...

Really elegant

probably one of the nicest i have seen on this forum

system01 · « **Reply #1271 on:** August 16, 2009, 01:53:30 pm »

(voted) def #1.

Something that always grabs my eye as out-of-place though is those dashed circles. Is there a reason for those? Always sticks out (to me) as Betelguise-ish.

Yvan256 · « **Reply #1272 on:** August 16, 2009, 03:42:32 pm »

Quote from: system01 on August 16, 2009, 01:53:30 pm

Something that always grabs my eye as out-of-place though is those dashed circles. Is there a reason for those? Always sticks out (to me) as Betelguise-ish.

To me it looks like those "cut here" lines.

Talking about those lines however, the spacing between the dashes at the bottom of the trackball needs to be corrected IMO. Sorry if it has already been mentionned but this is like the longest thread ever.

Kman-Sweden · « **Reply #1273 on:** August 17, 2009, 02:54:31 am »

No:1 is sooo "Day of the Tentacle", I like it!

hyiu · « **Reply #1274 on:** August 18, 2009, 02:15:18 am »

I like #1 the original more....

LeedsFan · « **Reply #1275 on:** August 18, 2009, 02:43:45 am »

I like the font of #1 better. Reminds me of something from a 1950s B-movie or one of those black and white sci-fi American shows. Only drawback for me is the white dotted lines... kinda makes it look like it's supposed to be cut out with scissors.

#2 looks more serious. But it's still very cool and I like it. I honestly couldn't choose between the two. If you lost the dotted lines on #1 and did something more subtle I'd go with #1.

mpm32 · « **Reply #1276 on:** August 19, 2009, 02:13:36 pm »

Well the new one brings the artwork into this century.

ryantheleach · « **Reply #1277 on:** August 19, 2009, 09:51:39 pm »

I first liked the second one, but the first has character that matches the rest of the cabinet.

also the 2nd one looks too modern which for an arcade machine isn't always the look you want... maybe that's because the arts 6 years old!

also FWIW if anyone believes me ive been planning my own cab and collecting pieces since this thread was made, i just never thought id made enough progress to start a build thread and my design has changed radically since, might have something to do with that i was only 13-14 when this thread was made! a few of the ideas i've had i've seen been implemented but been inspired by so many cabs since then. this one being a major influence of take your time and put effort into EVERYTHING.

my biggest problem is funding since i've either been at school or university... but I swear in this thread of all places that my cab will be awesome once i get funded.

sorry to hijack my own post that was originally just to vote with.

thatitalian · « **Reply #1278 on:** August 20, 2009, 06:25:16 pm »

#1 - so much more attractive...

Bender · « **Reply #1279 on:** August 20, 2009, 06:29:19 pm »

#1

and make those white dashes lite blue


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Author Topic: Mission Control Project: 5 years on, what to do with the leftovers? (Read 695050 times)

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