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Author Topic: Mini Qbert - [FINISHED]  (Read 32558 times)

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Re: Mini Qbert - [FINISHED]
« Reply #120 on: November 21, 2015, 04:04:08 pm »
A beautiful build!  :applaud:

Do you plan to release a video showing the knocker in action?

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Re: Mini Qbert - [FINISHED]
« Reply #121 on: November 21, 2015, 04:22:04 pm »
     Niiice !!!
                  

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Re: Mini Qbert - [FINISHED]
« Reply #122 on: November 21, 2015, 04:29:55 pm »

Hmm..

Is it 6!#?9! or @!#?@!

Hell, I'm guessing this is the password some of you guys are using on the internet.

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Re: Mini Qbert - [FINISHED]
« Reply #123 on: November 21, 2015, 05:22:49 pm »
Thanks guys! Really appreciate the compliments!

There have been some really stunning builds on here lately. I'm just trying to keep up!

I'm already thinking about my next 2 builds.  :lol

Really enjoying this community. Have a lot of fun coming here every day.

I'll release a short video of mini Qbert in action soon.
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Re: Mini Qbert - [FINISHED]
« Reply #124 on: November 21, 2015, 05:25:11 pm »
I'm already thinking about my next 2 builds.  :lol
I know the feeling!  :lol

It's like an obsession.

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Re: Mini Qbert - [FINISHED]
« Reply #125 on: November 22, 2015, 11:28:23 am »
 :angry: Excellent!  :cheers:

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Re: Mini Qbert - [FINISHED]
« Reply #126 on: November 23, 2015, 11:59:42 am »
:angry: Excellent!  :cheers:

Thanks! emphatic. Appreciate you following my build.


I also almost forgot to thank BYOAC user Howard_Casto for creating the awesome app MAME Hooker. Without it, mini Qbert's knocker would not have been possible.  :cheers:
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Re: Mini Qbert - [FINISHED]
« Reply #127 on: November 23, 2015, 05:11:16 pm »
That turned out great.  So many cool touches from the coin door to the power button and the serial number.   And the paint on that thing literally pops off my screen.  Nicely done.  :cheers:

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Re: Mini Qbert - [FINISHED]
« Reply #128 on: November 23, 2015, 05:21:51 pm »
That turned out great.  So many cool touches from the coin door to the power button and the serial number.   And the paint on that thing literally pops off my screen.  Nicely done.  :cheers:

Thanks! I really love the bright yellow sides of a Qbert as well.

I'm looking forward to seeing your real Qbert restore. Can't wait to see it finished.  ;)
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Re: Mini Qbert - [FINISHED]
« Reply #129 on: April 08, 2016, 02:33:59 pm »
Great project!  I may have missed this, but how did you get the knocker working?  Did you use MAMEHooker or something else?

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Re: Mini Qbert - [FINISHED]
« Reply #130 on: April 08, 2016, 02:44:44 pm »
Great project!  I may have missed this, but how did you get the knocker working?  Did you use MAMEHooker or something else?

Thanks!

Yes, I used Howard's awesome MameHooker program to grab Q*bert's outputs. Once you have done that, then you can instruct the PAC-DRIVE to trigger and fire a relay that opens the solenoid (knocker)

Here is a image of the entire assembly:


And here is a video of it in action:


If you decide to do this, it's actually pretty easy and I can share the code I used to fire the knocker. I borrowed the code from another post somewhere and tweaked it to work a little better.
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Re: Mini Qbert - [FINISHED]
« Reply #131 on: April 09, 2016, 12:32:59 pm »
That's a nice arcade. If I had that, my friends and family would have already offered me 10's of dollars to build them one!

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Re: Mini Qbert - [FINISHED]
« Reply #132 on: April 09, 2016, 12:48:14 pm »
I would check on the electrical tape holding the monitor every so often. Eventually it will lose it's stickiness.

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Re: Mini Qbert - [FINISHED]
« Reply #133 on: April 09, 2016, 11:44:46 pm »
That looks really great! I love Q-Bert! Is there anything you would have done differently?

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Re: Mini Qbert - [FINISHED]
« Reply #134 on: April 10, 2016, 10:40:22 am »
That's a nice arcade. If I had that, my friends and family would have already offered me 10's of dollars to build them one!

LOL. Aint that the truth. Matter of fact, I just had a buddy of mine ask me the same thing. :)


I would check on the electrical tape holding the monitor every so often. Eventually it will lose it's stickiness.

Funny you should say that because you were exactly right. It eventually peeled off on one edge. The screen is very delicate so I ended up using hot glue and that has seemed to hold for now.


That looks really great! I love Q-Bert! Is there anything you would have done differently?

I wish that I would have just built it full-sized.

It would have matched my other machines and it took just as much work anyway so I should have just done it.

It's a neat machine and still makes people smile, but a full-sized one would have been better.
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Re: Mini Qbert - [FINISHED]
« Reply #135 on: April 15, 2016, 10:52:34 pm »
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Re: Mini Qbert - [FINISHED]
« Reply #136 on: April 20, 2016, 11:25:34 pm »
Beautiful build.  Excellent work.  It is all so very clean.

I've been thinking about what you said, regarding the scale of it.  While it is true that a full sized machine wouldn't have been any more work, there is also something pretty cool about this being the only one of its kind.  I like to think that these projects are the sorts of things that are going to puzzle the heck out of the collectors a hundred years from now.  >:D

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Re: Mini Qbert - [FINISHED]
« Reply #137 on: April 20, 2016, 11:31:41 pm »
Beautiful build.  Excellent work.  It is all so very clean.

I've been thinking about what you said, regarding the scale of it.  While it is true that a full sized machine wouldn't have been any more work, there is also something pretty cool about this being the only one of its kind.  I like to think that these projects are the sorts of things that are going to puzzle the heck out of the collectors a hundred years from now.  >:D

Yeah, I like the miniature size of it too. It's a sweet build, probably my favorite of last year.

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Re: Mini Qbert - [FINISHED]
« Reply #138 on: March 01, 2017, 01:27:40 am »
did you purchase the sideart?  or did you have the art and have it printed somewhere?  im looking to do a 2/3 scale Q bert cab.

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Re: Mini Qbert - [FINISHED]
« Reply #139 on: March 01, 2017, 11:27:33 am »
did you purchase the sideart?  or did you have the art and have it printed somewhere?  im looking to do a 2/3 scale Q bert cab.

I had my artwork printed by Ken. He is a user here on BYOAC but I forgot his username.

However, he takes request via email anyway:

byoacrequests@gmail.com

His prints are really top-notch. And he is super easy to work with.
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Re: Mini Qbert - [FINISHED]
« Reply #140 on: March 01, 2017, 01:16:09 pm »
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