Arcade Collecting > Pinball
PinKadia! The Ultimate virtual Pinball / Arcade / PC combo cabinet!
thagerty:
A small update...
I added led lights to the speaker bezel. I had to basically mount some thin cardboard inside around where the speaker holes are (had carbon fibre wrap on the cardboard). Then I stuck led lighting strips on the inside and connected them to the same molex connector for my rear fans. Then I put speaker fabric over the opening. Its not the best solution, but its easy, and it works with the small space I had.
Each speaker light strip can have its light colour separately changed to any light colour via a remote just like under the cabinet.
This is the lowest brightness setting I can go.
This is the max brightness.... WAY to bright if I want to actually see the playfield while playing.
...more pics...
...and now I'm on to getting MAME media started.... blah!
thagerty:
Well here we go. I got MAME up and running in PinKadia!
I have it setup to have Pinball X show the marquees on the backglass screen. (which I had to make into 16x9 pictures, over 2700 of them!)
I captured videos of gameplay using OBS. I liked Tom's MAME videos from the GameEx FTP, but Pinball X makes them stretch and fill the whole screen with the wrong aspect ratio. I do use them for the games I haven't video captured yet.
The vertical games are perfect for the playfield screen. Horizontal games could be played on the backglass screen, but they would be alot smaller compared to the playfield screen, and I would need to have my head looking upward all the time to play.
My main priority was to have the game screen as large as possible with HLSL effects (no screen curve, or glow, etc). With the game this big (42 inch TV for the playfield screen) HLSL really is needed to make the game not look blocky and yuck! I also wanted no bezel obstruction of the game screen.
I use Rocket Launcher to manage the bezels and backgrounds. This allows me to use a default bezel / background for ALL games, and I can have it easily change to a random / specific one or use MAME's artwork. Its easy to just add another background this way, and I don't need to deal with "lay" files!
If the original arcade or a custom bezel works well to cover the leftover unused screen area, I'll use it. Otherwise I use a chrome / metal hexagon bezel that I made to match the style of my Pincab (it looks much better in person than it does in the videos!).
I made several different ones to better fit the different sized marquees as well. I used Pinball X to have my backglass screen act as a DMD screen sized the same as the marquee, and centered. Then I had windows use the "blank" metal hexagon / chrome trim picture as a wallpaper background picture. When I ran Pinball X this way it displays the marquee overtop of the metal hexagon picture. I used OBS to capture the entire backglass screen with the new 16x9 marquee as a small video. (I would hit flipper button, then "record" over and over and over again) Then I just played all the recorded videos back to back, and saved each as a picture with the name of the MAME rom file to match. It sounds complicated, but it was the easiest way to do this. I got over 2700 done! I know...,. I'm crazy.
The reason I had to use OBS is because I couldn't find a program to "screen capture" the backglass screen (acting as the dmd screen) properly. They either require the "screen to be captured" to be the primary screen (which messes up Pinball X), or they will only capture the DMD portion of the DMD screen in Pinball X. I needed the entire screen with the marquee AND background....and OBS only does video capture.
I have over 2700 MAME games setup.... I'm not about to make custom backgrounds or bezels for that many games!
Here is a video showing around 80 MAME games. It shows a mix of vertical and horizontal games with and without the arcade bezels.
jennifer:
--- Quote from: pbj on February 22, 2016, 07:45:54 pm ---Military dick swinging.
Man cave.
Virtual pinball.
"The wife
You, sir, are dead to me.
--- End quote ---
PBJ: I must have missed something, or you just went FDAU ???.... OP: That's a interesting budget cab build you got there, Sneaking that project past the wife I don't buy however, That obviously was a elephant in the room as far as projects go. And from the detail didn't go together fast... I love the little slide out tray for the computer, don't know if that's a thing on V/pins but a very cool idea none-the-less.
thagerty:
--- Quote from: jennifer on April 10, 2016, 02:56:59 pm ---
--- Quote from: pbj on February 22, 2016, 07:45:54 pm ---Military dick swinging.
Man cave.
Virtual pinball.
"The wife
You, sir, are dead to me.
--- End quote ---
PBJ: I must have missed something, or you just went FDAU ???.... OP: That's a interesting budget cab build you got there, Sneaking that project past the wife I don't buy however, That obviously was a elephant in the room as far as projects go. And from the detail didn't go together fast... I love the little slide out tray for the computer, don't know if that's a thing on V/pins but a very cool idea none-the-less.
--- End quote ---
Thanks jennifer. I'm honestly not sure what PBJ was getting at either.... maybe its just a joke? Believe me, I'm the farthest thing from being a jar-head acting like a jerk. (and I'm a tech, not a grunt) You don't last 18 plus years of marriage with my wife if you are that kind of guy.
I was also kind of joking around in that part of the post, and I sometimes forget that it doesn't always comes across that way.
As far as sneaking the project past my wife.... that was only for the first day of construction, and I did get ALOT completed during the time she was gone. I did tell her weeks before hand that this was something I wanted to do (she doesn't like ANY of my projects), and with the "mock up" I had setup for weeks it wasn't a complete surprise. This made us "even" for when she brought home a second puppy without asking.... ;) (and the pinball cabinet is quieter let me tell you!)
The pull-out tray for the CPU is somewhat more common with pincabs, yes.
Edit: "The wife" portion bothered me enough to justify removing it altogether.... I was just joking, but not everyone will see it that way. "MY" wife deserves better.
Malenko:
PBJ's wife fat shames him, so he lashes out here. You still need a better name :)
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