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| dmckean:
--- Quote from: Pauly on July 03, 2015, 12:14:28 am --- --- Quote from: pbj on July 03, 2015, 12:09:24 am ---32" = too small 720 = junk --- End quote --- Thanks for your feedback. Can you support your opinion? 32" seems like a pretty generous size. --- End quote --- I'm not really sure what he meant but TVs models tend to jump in size from 32" to 40". I think for ends up almost too big. With a 32" TV you'll get a 24" picture for 4:3(horizontal) games and an 18" picture for 3:4(vertical) games. If you made the jump to a 40" TV, 4:3 games would be 30" and 3:4 games would be around 22.5 inches. 32" seems OK to me. |
| eds1275:
Want to keep the games list small, but want to have spinner, 4 players, guns, trackball, pinball... If you are indeed using MaLa I would suggest just loading it up and then hiding the All Games master list. I'm sure finding a CNC shop in Dallas won't be hard. Although for many of the users here, the build is most of the fun. I personally have a lot of games nights and play an awful lot, but am happy I did the work myself. A lot of people tend to over think, over engineer, and generally make a problem out of joining wood/mdf together. |
| Pauly:
--- Quote from: eds1275 on July 06, 2015, 02:46:16 pm ---Want to keep the games list small, but want to have spinner, 4 players, guns, trackball, pinball... If you are indeed using MaLa I would suggest just loading it up and then hiding the All Games master list. I'm sure finding a CNC shop in Dallas won't be hard. Although for many of the users here, the build is most of the fun. I personally have a lot of games nights and play an awful lot, but am happy I did the work myself. A lot of people tend to over think, over engineer, and generally make a problem out of joining wood/mdf together. --- End quote --- I am glad you brought this up. I am not much of Woodworking person, but as I do any craft - I find it fascinating! With that said, I decided to give the actual woodworking a shot myself. I purchased a table saw and a router and started measuring things out. I know I am going to screw up the measurements somewhere, but thats going to be the learning part. I think my goal is to not injure myself (badly) personally! Also when I mean a small game list I am saying less than 100 or so. There seems to be builds will over 400 games, I just don't want to do that. I want to build mine with games that are specific to the tools I have on the board. I get the irony that there are a ton of controls and that I have and probably everything will work, but then I am only looking for the elite few. Mostly multi-player games - MK and SF are a must and I would like to connect Steam as well. I dont want to try to over engineer it. I am actually probably most wood workers worst nightmare. I measure maybe twice and say "HELL WITH IT, LET'S DO THIS!" and either comes out perfect, or I am buying more wood. ==== Update: Joystick and Buttons came in from Paradise Arcade. I am testing them out on a pencil box to see the difficulty in wiring these things up. So far, so good. |
| eds1275:
The problem with trying to get only a select few, is everyone's ideas will be radically different and even worse, you will miss out on the hidden gems, of which there are many. One of my favourites is The Outfoxies, my niece loves Michael Jackson's Moonwalker, my nephew loves Loco-Motion, and my wife loves Puzz Loop. Not exactly 5 star top tier games but all amazing and worth putting the time in to play! The woodworking is not rocket science. I mean it's basically just a box! I would have gone with a circular saw instead of a table saw. Really the only tools you need are a drill, a router, a circular saw, and a jigsaw. |
| Pauly:
table saw was more for the small pieces and also this project was an excuse for the wife to get a table saw :cheers:. I have all the other tools listed ready to go! I may reconsider the game selection based off your post, i just noticed my kids last night enjoying some games on mame that i thought were terrible. :dunno |
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