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vertexguy:
Lookin sharp javery! I think the left colors work best but instead of the bright blue / teal it could be pushed into a bit of a darker and perhaps less saturated blue. The outlines I might like better if they were a gray or maybe even black. Less dominant. I agree on no laser rings too. Feels out of place given his stance. The UFO behind him is emitting a light but that kinda gets lost in the blue. Might pop that a bit more but still keep the character popping the most :cheers:

javeryh:

--- Quote from: PL1 on February 05, 2021, 02:06:25 am ---There's no polarity to a microswitch so it will work as long as one wire from the 2-pin cable goes on COM and the other on NO.
- After that coin door wiring incident, I'm sure you'll double check that it's not on NC. jk :lol

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LOL ;D

That's what I thought. There's a spot on the zero delay encoder for a "2-pin joystick interface" which is just four 2-pin terminals for U/D/L/R I assume. I'm just going to use that.

--- Quote from: vertexguy on February 05, 2021, 10:53:50 am ---Lookin sharp javery! I think the left colors work best but instead of the bright blue / teal it could be pushed into a bit of a darker and perhaps less saturated blue. The outlines I might like better if they were a gray or maybe even black. Less dominant. I agree on no laser rings too. Feels out of place given his stance. The UFO behind him is emitting a light but that kinda gets lost in the blue. Might pop that a bit more but still keep the character popping the most :cheers:

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Thanks - the art has been finished for a while now and has been ordered and applied to the cabinet - no changing it now! :cheers:

I'm starting to remember why I put this one on the back burner... I cannot for the life of me figure out how to secure the CP short of drilling holes through the top and literally screwing it down, which I absolutely do not want to do. I used rare earth magnets and they hold it in place pretty good but a good pull down on the joystick and the entire panel lifts up. This has happened every single time someone other than me has played it.

I'm open to suggestions on how to keep it from moving. The issue is that there is virtually no real estate on the underside of the CP to add any type of fastener or anything. Space is so tight. I don't even have room for the ServoStik PCB, which I'm relocating to behind the screen. Hopefully this will give you a better idea of what I mean:

I'm really stuck. Any ideas?

:cheers:

EDIT: What about permanently gluing the CP in place and cutting a large rectangle out of the bottom panel? This would (pretty much) provide access to the buttons and joystick and solve the movement issue. Cutting a perfect rectangle will be extremely difficult though (any ideas how to do this?). Also, I'd still need to cover it to keep dust out or whatever... I guess a piece of 1/16" plexi would do the trick. This seems irreversible though so I'd still like to hear other options.

markc74:
Would this work?

javeryh:

--- Quote from: markc74 on February 05, 2021, 04:58:41 pm ---Would this work?

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You know... that might be crazy enough to work. The only issue I can see is that I literally only have about 1” of space for that wedge right next to the yellow plastic where I taped that metal catch.

But I don’t need it to be that deep - it just needs to catch the screw, which would have to be almost exactly the right length.

Thanks for the idea - hadn’t considered it at all.

Sh0t0K4n:
Just went through the whole Project and it is very nicely done.
The placement of it all is so tight and well thought. I also very much appreciate the artworks, from start to the near end it is all top notch!

Beautiful work Javeryh

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