Daraku Tenshi Themed Cab - Complete

[DarakuTenshi]

I didn't even know buttons like that exist. I started looking around but can't seem to find any concave buttons with different colored rims. Do you know if they exist?
I prefer to keep all the buttons in the same style if at all possible, all I found was Sanwa and some other un-branded buttons that looked like something off of a slot machine.

[Malenko]

I didn't even know buttons like that exist. I started looking around but can't seem to find any concave buttons with different colored rims. Do you know if they exist?
I prefer to keep all the buttons in the same style if at all possible, all I found was Sanwa and some other un-branded buttons that looked like something off of a slot machine.

you take the plunger out of one button, and put it into the barrel of a different one.

[DarakuTenshi]

I looked at my buttons and couldn't figure out how to do that... the look as if they are sealed. How can one accomplish this?

[severdhed]

remove the microswitch from the button and look at the bottom.  watch when you press the button, there will be two square tabs that move(one of them will activate the switch when it is attached.

press the button the whole way down, squeeze those two tabs together, then press them back up through the holes they come through.  once they are inside the holes, pull the plunger and spring out, repeat.

to put them back in, it works best to compress the spring and squeeze the tabs together before pressing it back into the button housing.

it is pretty simple once you see how they work.

[PL1]

Here's a field-stripped translucent button so you can see the tabs that Severdhed is talking about.




Scott

[EMDB]

Gold t-molding. And I would use all white or all black buttons. don't mix the button and the ring colors. You already have contrasting button surrounding, it will look like a zebra...

[DarakuTenshi]

Thanks for the info on the removal of the button casing.

@EMDB - I wasn't quite sure about the colors so i was going to test it out to see what it looked like.

I'm a bit ticked off today as my CP paint has dried and now the top of my CP does not fit in place anymore. I under estimated the thickness of the paint. Ot maybe it was swelling of the MDF I'm not sure.

[DarakuTenshi]

The problem I ran into with the CP happened in one other spot in the cab which worked itself out. I hope the CP will do the same after I let the CP top sit in the CP box for a few days. If not I'll have to disassemble the CP and take a few millimeters off of one of the sides to allow it to move freely.

Until the few days go by I decided to put the monitor in place so that I could work on the bezel... so for now here is the next image I took.

[DarakuTenshi]

Well it's been close to 2 months since I've done anything cosmetically to this thing. I've mostly been working at configuring Hyperspin which was a bit of a learning curve... some of the things I'm still working on have proven to be difficult.

Also to throw another wrench into the works I broke down and bought a PS4 which took some of my funding away that would have gone to the cab. I guess I'd probably be done with all the cosmetic stuff by now had I not made that purchase. Oh well...

I got my bezel from Tap Plastics today and finally got around to cutting the matting and installing the hardware to keep the bezel in place. I still have a bit of work to do on it, but it's not looking half bad. I just have to find a company that can custom make me some aluminum pieces to finish it off.




I'm also not happy with the navigation buttons, so they will probably just end up being solid black.

Other than that I have my side art that was just sent to gameongrafix.com a couple days ago. Then by my next paycheck I'll be picking up the t-molding so I can do that and the side art on the same day.

[Malenko]

I'm also not happy with the navigation buttons, so they will probably just end up being solid black.

None of the pictures have Daraku Tenshi running on it? for shame lol

The nav buttons, in my opinion, would look much snappier if they were all like the second button. White barrel and black plunger, mates up with the kanji pretty well. You say you were going with white t-molding on this?

[DarakuTenshi]

Actually the one above that says Steel Hearts Team is Daraku Tenshi.

No I think I decided to go with Gold t-molding.

[Malenko]

Actually the one above that says Steel Hearts Team is Daraku Tenshi.

No I think I decided to go with Gold t-molding.

ahh you got me with the double post!  Gold would look good for the molding, but consider the admin buttons in black and white

[DarakuTenshi]

Yeah I think I'll buy a few more white buttons so I can do that.

[Malenko]

The cab looks fantastic, very professional looking build.  If you want, I can whip up a fake bezel to hide the wide screen for Daraku , I just need to know the pixel dimensions 

[JBED]

Great looking cabinet! The bezel surrounding Dig Dug is there a program you use to get bezels to fill in the horizontal parts or is this a feature in mame/hyperspin etc?

Thanks for your time.

[PL1]

Great looking cabinet! The bezel surrounding Dig Dug is there a program you use to get bezels to fill in the horizontal parts or is this a feature in mame/hyperspin etc?

Thanks for your time.

MAME has a Video Options menu where you can select the desired options based on the layout (.LAY) file.

Progetto Snaps and Mr. Do are great places to look for art and .LAY files and MAMELayPlus is a MAME build for horizontal-mounted or vertical-mounted widescreen monitors that has some higher-resolution art packs.


Scott

[DarakuTenshi]

The cab looks fantastic, very professional looking build.  If you want, I can whip up a fake bezel to hide the wide screen for Daraku , I just need to know the pixel dimensions 

Yeah that would be cool. I'll have to get that for you later.

[DarakuTenshi]

I got my t-molding in the mail so I went ahead and installed it along with the side art. Unfortunately, I forgot how they send the t-molding in 20' rolls so now I'm a bit short to complete the task. I will have to order some more and then I will finish installing the artwork at that time.


The molding looks so much better in real life than it does in the pic... then again so does the side art. When it's done I'll get a much better photo posted.

[lcmgadgets]

Just tuned in here. Sweet cab! Congrats! 

[DarakuTenshi]

Alright... 98% finished with the cab. Couple more things to do on it and within the next couple weeks I'll have my Ms. Pac-Man cab that I can start restoring 
Then again... I've also been thinking about building a racing cab or a pinball simulator.


Here is a video walk-around... not sure how to imbed it.

[Malenko]

been following since the start, something to be proud of for sure. Amazing how close your pre-project render was to the final cab!

Hope to see this one win an award next year 

[yotsuya]

Looks good, my friend! 

[scoodidabop]

Hey I found this on youtube! Great build dude.  I just got into this game very recently.

[pbj]

 

Nailed by the 20' t-molding scam.

[DarakuTenshi]

Nailed by the 20' t-molding scam.

Sadly yes
Not sure if the gold t-molding could be had elsewhere, but just recently I was looking at tmolding.com to purchase black 3/4th for my CP that I'm building. When I saw the final price for that 20' roll I said forget that noise. I then go to eBay and purchase the same product (from the same seller) at a fraction of the cost. Not sure why they sell it for so high on their website and so low on eBay.

[JDFan]

Here is a video walk-around... not sure how to imbed it.

Just remove the s from https in the link !!

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