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| Gilrock:
Hi I'm new to the forum so first couple paragraphs is just a little background. Just discovered it a week ago as I was planning to build my Mame cabinet. I still own a small Mame cab I bought around 1998 from a company called Hanaho games. The machine was set aside for several years and when I moved into a new house and got it back up and running I looked into updating everything to the latest Mame and that's when I discovered Hyperspin. I realized I wanted a new PC so I got a new one and installed everything. I started wanting a bigger screen so I began planning something new. I bought a 32" TV and I ordered a pre-made controller from mameroom.com and the plan was to have a showcase style setup where I was going to build a pedestal for the controller and mount the TV to a bracket on the wall and maybe build a housing around it for speakers. It was about that time I stumbled on the Hyperpin stuff over at Hyperspin and it diverted all my attention to the point where I began a virtual pinball build. So that machine is complete and I've now refocused back on building a Mame cabinet. In the virtual pinball forums I noticed a guy with a mame cab in his signature called Grounds 4 Divorce so I read his thread where I discovered a link to a video of the Marvel vs. Capcom Revolution machine by griffindodd. So I really liked both of their machines and I was already planning in my head how I was going to do a rotating screen and all that. So I was searching for griffindodd's build thread and discovered this forum where I found that he was now going by the name Maximus. Luckily I didn't start building anything yet because one day I noticed he had a version 2 thread where he had dismantled his cabinet and installed a 51" plasma and a marquee monitor. It took me like 10 seconds to decide that was my new plan so I could ditch the rotating monitor idea. So I spent the last couple days designing the frame of the cabinet in Sketchup. I've already bought a 50" LED TV because the plasma's in Best Buy just looked terrible. I also ordered a 21:9 Dell Ultrasharp for the marquee which should arrive today. I really have no clue what type of artwork or name I might want to give this cabinet so I'm just gonna build it and hope I think of something later. Also now that I know how to build my own cabinet I don't really want the control panel I paid $700 for two years ago. So I'm trying to decide if I might be able to sell it for pennies on the dollar or just rip it open and salvage parts from it. The problem is now I'd like to have lighted buttons and trackball so it's turning out to not be much I can reuse from that panel. I plan to use the panel just to run thing until I design a build a new control panel. These photos show my design so far in Sketchup. This photo is a screenshot of the control panel design from the mameroom website. It ended up they didn't have the marble colored trackball so mine ended up being a white one. I'm still upset they didn't refund me the cost of the trackball upgrade. I'm going to ditch this and design my own. This photo shows my virtual pinball cabinet but this was taken before it was completed. I've since installed the side art on the back cabinet and installed an LED DMD between the speakers. You can see my old Hanaho games cabinet on the left and the corner of my real Time Warp pinball machine on the right. |
| yotsuya:
You paid for an upgraded trackball and they didn't give it to you? Did you complain? |
| Gilrock:
--- Quote from: yotsuya on September 18, 2014, 10:35:35 am ---You paid for an upgraded trackball and they didn't give it to you? Did you complain? --- End quote --- Yeah that was well over a year ago maybe two. My whole order didn't go well. I waited several weeks and when I finally thought it was taking too long I called and found out they didn't have my order in their system. I said well I've got a credit card charge for my order so they actually had me email them the photo I posted above so they would know what to build. Then they emailed and said they could no longer get the marble colored trackball. In my reply I reminded them that I had paid extra for that marble trackball upgrade. I'm pretty sure the controller showed up and I never heard from them and I didn't make an issue out of it. But now I really don't like the controller layout. When I use the left joystick as player one it feels like my hand is too close to the edge and I feel like I'm positioned too far left. It also seems like too many buttons. When I use the trackball I'd be happy to use 3 buttons from the player 1 area on the left instead of having the 3 dedicated buttons. And I don't feel like I need the dedicated 4 way stick at the top. So I want to design and build my own layout now. I had just gone with the default layout they were selling at the time. I have a new CNC router so I'm itching to cutout my own panel on it. |
| Rabidgamer:
I believe his biggest problems were custom resolutions and aligning that custom resolution on the screen. I would do some of those custom resolution and alignment tests on your screen before you mount this TV you bought. (or base any measurements on it) Also, the reason he used plasma was so that blacks/contrast made the bezels look more real. I hope your LED TV has good contrast. |
| yotsuya:
--- Quote from: Gilrock on September 18, 2014, 11:00:11 am --- --- Quote from: yotsuya on September 18, 2014, 10:35:35 am ---You paid for an upgraded trackball and they didn't give it to you? Did you complain? --- End quote --- Yeah that was well over a year ago maybe two. My whole order didn't go well. I waited several weeks and when I finally thought it was taking too long I called and found out they didn't have my order in their system. I said well I've got a credit card charge for my order so they actually had me email them the photo I posted above so they would know what to build. Then they emailed and said they could no longer get the marble colored trackball. In my reply I reminded them that I had paid extra for that marble trackball upgrade. I'm pretty sure the controller showed up and I never heard from them and I didn't make an issue out of it. But now I really don't like the controller layout. When I use the left joystick as player one it feels like my hand is too close to the edge and I feel like I'm positioned too far left. It also seems like too many buttons. When I use the trackball I'd be happy to use 3 buttons from the player 1 area on the left instead of having the 3 dedicated buttons. And I don't feel like I need the dedicated 4 way stick at the top. So I want to design and build my own layout now. I had just gone with the default layout they were selling at the time. I have a new CNC router so I'm itching to cutout my own panel on it. --- End quote --- I like you, Gilrock. Welcome to the club. New members get their smoking jackets after 1000 posts. :cheers: |
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