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Arcade 1up Conversion
Denicio:
--- Quote from: Phreakwars on October 20, 2020, 11:16:44 pm ---Like I said, I'm in the middle of a conversion at this moment, and I can't say I disagree with Howard and leap. Very thin board. Tiny ass cams on the bottom. This thing is smaller then I expected, lucky for me I ordered the one with a riser. My original plan for this new build was to give some blueprints I have of a custom cab to my local cabinetry shop and have them make the shell for me since I suck at woodwork like no other. There is also a vinyl print shop in town and the owner is a buddy of mine. He can easily do full size cab skins. Honestly, that should have been the way to go if you are serious about building a nice arcade. I say you can make an Arcade1Up into a bad ass cab and do some easy transformations, but there are size limitations that I have run into thus far. Keep in mind, you'll want an admin set of buttons to access other features. There are a couple of ways to go. One way is add more buttons, another way is use an iPac controller's "SHIFT" function which allows you to assign different key actions to the standard buttons. Good way to cut down on wiring too.
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Thanks to you and ALL for the replies. I've decided to simply just build my own cab.
This place seems to have many solutions. Just weary of the 85% accuracy though.... https://www.classicarcadecabinets.com/ms-pacman.html
The more i look into the 1up, the more i see i will be spending extra unnecessary time and $$ to get it where i can simply follow along with the link above. I have found a local print shop that can print the side panels to full size.....SO...my options are:
1. Print Sides only, cut those, get the Control Panel and reverse engineer it from there.
2. Find a local wood shop who has a CNC set up and pay them to cut all the parts. Again....paying someone to cut something with 85% accuracy gives me pause.
I am 'decent' with wood working tools (because i am too cheap to pay retail for many things i use). I have learned that dark stains or black paint...with my cuts......hides a lot of imperfections :-) I can fake it pretty good! For instance, i have attached a picture of the outdoor kitchen i did last summer. I am no Bob Vila...but i kinda know my way around a saw to fake it well enough......
Howard_Casto:
85% accuracy just means it hasn't been verified and with a ms-pac it'd be virtually impossible to verify all of those curves.
I built a pac-man from scratch.... it wasn't hard and I had the basic cabinet together in a day or two. You need to be good with a jig-saw though as it's basically all curves. A tip I would give is to buy your control panel (I'm assuming you want a metal one for ms-pac) before you build to make sure you get the width right. Also don't buy a pac/ms-pac control panel but rather a game that uses the same one like sky shark. Since pac-man is such a popular franchise you'll pay top dollar for "pac-man" arcade parts even though other games had identical parts.
leapinlew:
I've had way more luck finding a machine and refurbing it. You might be on the hunt for a while to find a machine that isn't an arm and leg since retro is so hot, but if you are patient, you can find something.
yotsuya:
You should’ve kept the Dynamo!
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Denicio:
--- Quote from: Howard_Casto on October 21, 2020, 10:09:35 pm ---85% accuracy just means it hasn't been verified and with a ms-pac it'd be virtually impossible to verify all of those curves.
I built a pac-man from scratch.... it wasn't hard and I had the basic cabinet together in a day or two. You need to be good with a jig-saw though as it's basically all curves. A tip I would give is to buy your control panel (I'm assuming you want a metal one for ms-pac) before you build to make sure you get the width right. Also don't buy a pac/ms-pac control panel but rather a game that uses the same one like sky shark. Since pac-man is such a popular franchise you'll pay top dollar for "pac-man" arcade parts even though other games had identical parts.
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That was going to be my plan. My old Mrs Pac Man to Multi refub in 2015 used a Control Panel i got (complete) from The Arcade Shop. Nice CP but all the buttons were utter shite. So i ended up spending MORE money on it having replaced all the micro switch buttons to leaf and the joystick too.
It seems Twisted Quarter has blank/drilled CP's for cheap. SO i was leaning on that...and then just building out the CP with good leaf buttons, stick and a track ball.
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