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gr3yh47:
I have a 4 player Simpsons cab that had been converted to NFL Blitz 99; got it at an auction for 20 bucks, and it's even functional (yay! Free funding for my project by selling parts!)

Working on converting it into a semi-stealth MAME cab. Why semi-stealth? Well, I will be using original (Midway) Galaga side-art, marquee, and kick-plate but it's obviously not a Galaga cab from the shape; also, the 4 player control panel will have a customized (lightly tweaked and rearranged) version of the original Galaga CPO.

Here is a very rough scale mockup of the CP layout/CPO. Art is mostly in place. control layout needs to be tweaked. (comments/suggestions are quite welcome!)

Explanation of above (for clarity and because I'm very proud of some of these ideas):


* Brown color in the back is the shape of the original CP. My new one will have an extra 1.5 inches at the bottom (it will be the size of the CPO in the picture). Also the CPO will be black to the edges of the panel like the original cab, the brown is just to show the shape
* All Joysticks have classic red ball tops; button colors will be as indicated
* 8-button layouts will have zippy joysticks with no restrictor and upgraded microswitches. the buttons (including player 3 + 4 start) are IL competition convex buttons. The curvature of the button layout is based on the Sega player 1 layout from this awesome page
* 4-button layouts will be IL horizontal microswitch concave buttons (including player 1+2 start) and have Mag-stik plus joysticks
* All of the buttons will have 50 gram microswitches EXCEPT the red buttons which will be 75g cherry switches :)
* Classic white player 1 and 2 silhouette buttons on the front of the CP box
* Classic white player 3 and 4 silhouette buttons on the left and right side of the CP box and will double as pinball buttons
* My favorite little part - see that green x on the spaceship eye at the bottom middle? that is going to be a red trackball  ;D
All of the parts were ordered yesterday except for the trackball.


Now for some cab pics.

original auction pic:


Once i got it home and pulled the monitor and buttons:


I was going to remove the boards etc from inside, but it was so extremely musty that when i took a breath back there i literally threw up.  :dizzy:
So  as I am composing this there is a full size ionic breeze running full blast inside the cabinet. I would appreciate any other ideas for dealing with the smell.

Unstupid:
Wow that's a lot of holes!  Looks like it used to be a mortal kombat before a Blitz...

PL1:

--- Quote from: gr3yh47 on March 25, 2013, 09:24:59 pm ---I was going to remove the boards etc from inside, but it was so extremely musty that when i took a breath back there i literally threw up.  :dizzy:
So  as I am composing this there is a full size ionic breeze running full blast inside the cabinet. I would appreciate any other ideas for dealing with the smell.

--- End quote ---

CheffoJeffo has some good ones here.

ChadTower and SavannahLion have some more good ideas in this thread.


Scott

DaveMMR:
Wow, that NFL Blitz must have been horrible to play with all those wacky-angled sticks (look at the bolts).

Speaking of which, don't angle your sticks. And it looks a bit busy.

I would put the 8-button control sets on the inside positions and the 4 button sets on the outsides. You'll play tons more fighters than four player games and having to play those reaching towards the back at an odd angle (even if the sticks were "up towards monitor", like they should be) will pretty much kill any desire for extended sessions. The outside positions are better for the simple games (e.g. typical four player games).

Le Chuck:
The galaga CPO is beautiful in its simplicity when stock.  As shown the buttons detract from the art and vice versa.  I think you can do a great homage without cluttering the CPO so much on the art.  Also, take Dave's advice.  He speaks sagely.  You've got a great project going here, just tweak that cp art and layout a bit and you'll have a real winner!

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