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| chopperthedog:
I brought up keith because he made all the wrong mistakes in my book. He took a donkey kong cab and puked on it with a 16:9 monitor, light up buttons, 2 joys and 12 buttons and teh hyperspinz with console crap galore. The brainiac also was only pulling one audio channel from the computer and going through one speaker when almost everything on the cab was stereo along with the "right channel only" juke box that had 1000's of songs. SI dlx cabs are unique and special with the mirror, black light and back drop art. If you want a 2 player street fighter control panel, then build or find a cabinet that is better suited for the type of games you're gonna be playing. good day. |
| zanna5910:
--- Quote from: dfwpiper1 on February 10, 2014, 10:00:56 pm ---If YOU had a Space Invaders Deluxe cab.... but wanted to pimp it a little with some LED buttons... what color would you pick? The color scheme of SI Deluxe totally throws me. Red, White, Blue.. with some green and yellow and black thrown in. It's frankly more hideous than the regular Space Invaders... yet it's kinda awesome in it's garish, retro sorta way. It's aesthetically arguable that yellow, green, blue, red, and white could all look good as lighted buttons. Anybody with a better eye for color complimenting have any suggestions? :dizzy: (I'd like the 12 main buttons for P1 and P2 to be the same. Menu/nav buttons can be another color... or a bunch of colors.) Also... what's everybodys' preference on concave vs. flat. I've never actually tried the flat.... but I'm leaning towards getting flat. (I'm obviously not a hard-core traditionalist) Concave always felt a little sloppy to me.... --- End quote --- I use electric ice RGB's with the tru-leaf switch or whatever its called and I like it. Although these are concave, they may represent everything your asking for and still have a retro feel. Also, if you're rocking RGB, you can switch to whatever color you want with some mods, not sure how you would control these via the original hardware though. Another option would be to get clear or opaque buttons, and then just switch leds to change color as it wouldn't be as painful as the whole nine yards. As far as feel of button, I've felt the SWITCH feel is what I'm after VS. the actual button feel. You can always try to get a flat button with a tru-leaf switch if its compatible, or any sort of combination. Hope that helps, good luck. |
| dfwpiper1:
I respect and understand being a purist on the matter. I was going to do this to a joust cab that I saw for dirt cheap on criags, assuming it was trashed. When I got it, it was pretty darn cherry and still working. I knew it would be a sacrelege to not just keep it the way it was. I bought it and left it as such. And this was before I knew about the forum and how passionately purist some here are. I got the SI DX cab being sold as a 60-in-1 jamma, already messed with. It came with no back drop art. No light. No original innards. No original CPO or even panel. No mirror. No monitor. All I have is the cab, and a very scratched-up bezel The side art is fairly okay, but still pretty scratched and scraped. My goal was to get a beat-up cab for cheap and start my mame from there, rather than from scratch...because old cabs ARE cheap when they're beat up... because they either go to a guy like me, or they remain in arcade limbo for eternity. I can either dump a ton of money and work into it to restore it to original... which I didn't set out to do... or use the ol' cheap, beat up cab as a base to start my mame project. Hell, I even want to preserve the side art and bezel and keep it 'SI Deluxe'-looking as possible. Either that, or the cab will have remained in trashed and already-partially-modded hades. I think I'm still in good favor with the arcade gods. vanrose72 and menace pretty much did the same things to the same cab and did a bang up job. I don't recall seeing their project threads being crammed with flame and people screaming 'blasphemer' at them. :soapbox: Okay. Done now. |
| Unstupid:
The problem with a Space Invaders cab is that it only "works" as a Space Invaders cab. That's because the Space Invaders cab is that it is so ugly, a lot like the box my refrigerator came in! If it is not in its classic form it is better off as firewood! But that just my opinion! ;) |
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