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| Xiaou2:
The Most memorable Attract modes that Spring to my Mind... Dragons Lair Space Ace (and a few of other Laserdisc games) Killer Instinct Tekken 3 Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (That soundtrack was amazing to hear replicated, on an arcade machine) Daytona USA (But its Grinds on you, when you work +9hr shifts, in an Arcade) Other / Special: Sega Genesis - "Target Earth" Dont press start, and just wait. The Attract Intro, is like an Epic movie trailer. Black Knight 2000 (Pinball) - That Soundtrack, is beyond amazing. Drew me in, in an Instant. Most older classics, of course, lack anything special in the Attract Mode. Though, when you hear the Star Wars tune, or the Star Trek tune... you immediately wanted to play these games. Just seeing gameplay of games like Outrun and Afterburner II... also just made you want to play. You really didnt need anything more than that. Laserdiscs were unique, in that they were the only machines capable of Cinematic Attract modes, until much more advanced hardware came along. Other than that, there were often just usually some very simple title or sprite animations. |
| bobbyb13:
I saw more of many games in the attract modes than I ever did playing them. Even still in Daphne versions of DL and SA. --- Quote from: pbj on May 16, 2023, 08:20:28 pm ---I get it with attract modes. It was the best part of Pit Fighter. Genesis Mini 2 has a very nice attract mode. Goat is like a tougher lamb. Stew, curry…. Roasted with rosemary and garlic. I recently ate leg of lamb, drank scotch, and watched lamb run around. ---steaming pile of meadow muffin--- was so cash. --- End quote --- I wanted to love the early LaserDisk games but found the way they ran to be so rushed and disjointed that for the $ they cost I stopped caring after a few quarters. A disappointment to me because they looked really cool but I was a pragmatist with my paper route and lawn mowing and driveway shoveling money. Or maybe I'm just cheap. ;) --- Quote from: Xiaou2 on May 16, 2023, 10:53:06 pm ---The Most memorable Attract modes that Spring to my Mind... Dragons Lair Space Ace (and a few of other Laserdisc games) Killer Instinct Tekken 3 Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (That soundtrack was amazing to hear replicated, on an arcade machine) Daytona USA (But its Grinds on you, when you work +9hr shifts, in an Arcade) Other / Special: Sega Genesis - "Target Earth" Dont press start, and just wait. The Attract Intro, is like an Epic movie trailer. Black Knight 2000 (Pinball) - That Soundtrack, is beyond amazing. Drew me in, in an Instant. Most older classics, of course, lack anything special in the Attract Mode. Though, when you hear the Star Wars tune, or the Star Trek tune... you immediately wanted to play these games. Just seeing gameplay of games like Outrun and Afterburner II... also just made you want to play. You really didnt need anything more than that. Laserdiscs were unique, in that they were the only machines capable of Cinematic Attract modes, until much more advanced hardware came along. Other than that, there were often just usually some very simple title or sprite animations. --- End quote --- All the little rats have names. They will be adopted out. Nikki will never sell them to anyone who would eat them. We have room for 14 anyway even if someone gets cold feet on letting them go. I told the girls that in 2 years of living up here that everyone would be vegetarians. It's 3 years and we're up to 3 vegetarian meals a week. :lol --- Quote from: Zebidee on May 16, 2023, 09:47:56 pm ---Kids (vs goats) are more like lamb, though a still a gamier taste (and aroma). Feed them rosemary first for extra garnish :P We used to raise sheep, suckle 'em then eat 'em. That's farm life. Lamb roast was a regular Sunday thing. Don't give them names :) Pets are different. Don't eat lamb much anymore, good stuff too expensive. --- End quote --- But as far as the CABINET goes... :laugh2: It has been illuminating to discover that after all the effort in paintwork over the last 15 builds that I can achieve something equal to all the effort with the gun with only this: FFS --- Quote from: Zebidee on May 16, 2023, 05:57:03 am ---Awesome. You could shave with that reflection! Glad you chose "battleship" grey because that's how the spaceships, deathstar etc looked in the original 1977 release. I originally saw Star Wars the traditional way: at the drive-in, from the back seat of the family station wagon. In the remade/remastered (and later) versions, released in 1997, the same version where Han shoots second instead of first, there was a magenta wash over everything and I thought it was particularly noticeable in the Deathstar scenes. It makes the movie look less "seventies", but I dunno :dunno You be the judge. I wrote about this on another thread last year and posted comparison shots, so rather than repeat myself any further: http://forum.arcadecontrols.com/index.php/topic,166923.msg1759471.html#msg1759471 --- End quote --- Not kidding either. With spar varnish as a first coat to seal the wood up and then block sanding every coat thereafter you could achieve one hell of a finish without ever spraying the damn thing. It IS important to note that each succesive coat was allowed to dry for 2 days before sanding and another layer applied (so it hardened up pretty well) but if you could stand to wait longer you could get an even flatter finish. But I am impatient because I want to play the damn thing. And so I took the day off of real work stuff so that I could attend to various overduw crap here at the ranch and of course- it rained all freakin day. At least I could work on the cabinet! In between showers I succeeded in getting a nebulous looking kind of spray job that I was shooting for (see what I did there?!) onto the bezel finally, hammered in some T-molding, and got going on putting the guts in. I'm going to polish the control panel up a bit and get it to blend into the whole mess a bit more. The monitor components wound up in a different arrangement than the Cosmic Chasm did. Keeping fans and the HV unit as far away from the tube as possible became the directive and this setup achieved that goal without any major harness reconstruction. From what this kit came to me with I only had to remake the power from deflection to HV unit part to spread them this far apart, and conveniently I had a run of some very nice shielded wire with four conductors from a stupid spendy audio install at the Hale Komodo a while back. Gotta love "scraps" sometimes. Power distribution and sound is easy comparatively but I have temporary stuff in place in case I can't wait until the other crap shows up to fire it up. Still waiting on audio cable, pinstriping tape, and some other silly crap for aesthetics that will take a long time to get complete I think. There is an Ipac in there waiting for me to wire up for the button only panel to swap in so I can play Asteroids, Gravitar, Space Duel and the like more authentically. Need to add the real coin door to that actually too now that I think of it- |
| Zebidee:
Nice to see a fresh post on this project. I learn a lot about paint from your posts. No longer surprised to see that you've nearly finished the painting and got the guts in. I expect next shots to be games in attract mode? :dizzy: I bought the official DVDs for DL and SA a long time ago, and you can play through the game scenes, stitched together like a little disjointed movie about 15-20 minutes long (I can't remember exactly now, but something like that). Anyway, when my kids were quite young, they enjoyed just watching the DVDs through more than actually playing the games. TBH, I liked it too, especially watching with them. Back on less sentimental topic - Suggest you lose the big old USB keyboard and grab some 2.4Ghz wifi mini-keyboards with touchpads - You can find them for only $4-5 these days. They are a great breath of freedom after juggling full-sized cabled keyboards and mice in cabs for decades. I got a couple, put one in my Sydney mate's cab and put the other in the magenta Aussie lowboy. Now I need more for ongoing projects, so I just ordered three more - one with Thai language so wife can use it with smart TV. Here's an example on Aliexpress: https://www.aliexpress.com/item/1005005274253892.html?spm=a2g0o.productlist.main.51.4cbbsowKsowKYi&algo_pvid=4de212ca-cbf5-4046-b99c-323281d80e7f&algo_exp_id=4de212ca-cbf5-4046-b99c-323281d80e7f-28&pdp_npi=3%40dis%21AUD%215.57%213.96%21%21%21%21%21%40211bf31716844799417967376d07e4%2112000032448003539%21sea%21TH%213053391937&curPageLogUid=XMXygFiKEHWD Example pic attached. EDIT: They arrived just as I posted! |
| bobbyb13:
Maybe I need to try a different one because I had a shot at using a wireless one with integrated mousepad that is a lot smaller than this Dell thing already- and the Pi wouldn't recognize it. Driver issue maybe? I'm still pretty well Pi stupid. The cabinet still needs one more coat of paint actually, but it is easy just rolling it on. There are a few 3rd coat holidays in spots as it is and I haven't even cut the back doors yet so they will need a dose too. And I'm not sure I like being so predictable. Still have some controller configuration to get to and the image still isn't perfect throughout but it is getting there. May need to take another shot at rewinding the ferrites on this yoke to see the result or maybe some magnets on the tube will be in order. You never can tell what indignities these old sets may have suffered in their long lives so who knows if the mask is knocked out of alignment or is heavily magnetized and that is the cause of my image imperfections or what. We'll see when my next shot at reminding myself anything about dealing with the Pi and ADVmame settings. The next week and a half is shaping up to be rather full already. |
| Mike A:
Nice work. I love all of it. |
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