Mission Control Project: 5 years on, what to do with the leftovers?

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Pixelhugger:
Blue ball top shafts from Ponyboy. I considered some of the fancier stuff, SlikStik stainless or lighted balltops etc and I may use something like that on my next cab but for now the blue Wico balltops really appeal to me. :)

Oh, and Drew that branding iron looks like a must have. Especially the logo version.... now to find a spare $143.00 :P

nostrebor- ummmmm.... doesn't everybody have three? What am I missing here? ::)..... As for the button nah, probably not going away, it may be superfluous but not enough to justify a total do over as I'm totalling costs and time. I just have to keep reminding myself that certain elements can be reworked later on. I suppose there is a good chance I'll want to revise the entire CP once I've used it in context of the FE for a few months. :-\

markrvp:
Do you already have your arcade computer up and running with Emulaxian?

Pixelhugger:
Had it then sold it. Was a Dell that didn't support AGP which I need for the ArcadeVGA.

markrvp:
Are you near a Fry Electronics? Every Friday they have a sale and you can usually pick up a P4 3.2 Ghz processor and motherboard for around $200. They also have AMD Athlon 64 3200 motherboard & processor combos for around $169. Add 512 megs of Ram for $40 and a hard drive for $80, a power supply for $50, and a DVD-ROM drive for under $100 and you've got a massive computer system that will run almost all the games MAME fully supports.

Anyway, that's neither here nor there. I'm really looking forward to seeing Emulaxian up and running as it looks really cool, but I never really worked with it much.

I think the coolest thing about your cab is the Nav panel with all the emulator buttons.

Pixelhugger:
They are FINALLY opening a Fry's about 10 minutes away. AmericanDemon set me up with some great parts... everything I needed actually.... to build the PC. Big thanks again to him! But I'm sure I'll be hitting Fry's for more bells and whistles.

The nav panel will hopefully make the cab a bit more user friendly for people unfamiliar with the whole concept and FE. I'm hoping to make it as self explanatory as possible.. as though the whole thing could stand alone in an arcade with nobody around to walk a player through it's use.

Emulaxian can certainly be a bit complex to setup but it's getting easier and the flexibility and customizability is incredible. Once I get the whole thing completed I plan on adding 3D arcades to match the rest of the artwork/concept. I have sketches for a massive environment that will hopefully contain everything from a walkaround construction gallery to archives of scanned videogame magazines from my childhood. I probably shouldn't go into all of this here, since it is such a long way off and so likely to get laughed at but then... that hasn't stopped me so far ::)

Here are some of the concepts I've been working on for a Mission Control 3D Environment. Luckily these are all a ton easier to model and convert to W3D than my cab. :P

The Aerospace Museum (Populated with 3D models of vehicles from 80's sci fi/toys... Space 1999 Eagle, Tie Fighter, Colonial Viper, Starbird.. and so on). Most of these models are available online, otherwise creating them would be ridiculously impractical. Like building a cabinet out of sol... errrr... never mind.

The Hall of Gods and Heroes (Walkaround gallery of projects and builders that inpired me during development of Mission Control including but probably not limited to Roswell, Robotron3000, SuperCade, Jubei, PacMamea, and on...).

The Wingmen's Deck (Walkaround tribute to the really helpful people who have assisted in the project).

Library and Archives (Browseable scans of videogame magazines and ads I remember as a kid)

Construcion Gallery

Art and Concept Gallery (Concept and development sketches, diagrams, and early versions of artwork etc...)

The Arcade (a collection of.. errrr... duh).

I hope to incorporate some of this in to the eventual website...

But enough of all this vaporware. It's woodshop night tonight!

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