Author Topic: Project Taito Pheonix (image warning) (Read 40230 times)

DYNAGOD · « **Reply #80 on:** September 29, 2004, 12:42:35 pm »

sweet, worked like a charm!
so ill have .69 .80 and .87 running on this machine.
plus zinc,callus,daphne, emu-rage and a few other emus,odds ends and abandonware.
i test drove the brains of this thing last nite on my pc monitor,and everything looks good and stable.

i recieved a new arcadeVGA from Andy at Ultimarc so it looks like im ready to go. just need to get soem damn paint on this thing, get my parts back from chrome and get me some new sanwa controls.
i have leaf switch style sanwa sticks with a 4 and 8 way restrictor plate.and i cannot find them anywhere..anyone got a lead?

DYNAGOD · « **Reply #81 on:** September 30, 2004, 08:43:13 am »

!!Remeber safety first kiddies!!
i got to spend my morning in the emergency room.

i was cutting a piece of 1 1/2 tube with a ninety degree bend in a cold saw with one of the clamps removed to be able to get close to the tangent.
when the tube reached past the halway point the teeth dug in and geared the pipe and the sharp cut off end right into the bridge of my nose breaking it and cutting open with razor like precision a nice 1 1/2 inch long laceration.
couldnt stop the bleeding and had to take a fun trip to the emergency room.. a tetnus shot,6 needles in the face, and several stitches later.......
nothing like starting out your day by being smashed in the face with a jagged metal pipe and bleeding out like a stuck pig.

im lucky to have an eye...an inch in either direction and i could have changed my forum name to cyclops..

SAFETY FIRST>>

ChadTower · « **Reply #82 on:** September 30, 2004, 09:28:02 am »

YOW YOW YOW

Glad to see you're not permanently injured.

WEAR SOME EFFIN SAFETY GOGGLES FROM NOW ON

NinjaEpisode · « **Reply #83 on:** September 30, 2004, 09:40:02 am »

Quote from: ChadTower on September 30, 2004, 09:28:02 am

YOW YOW YOW

Glad to see you're not permanently injured.

WEAR SOME EFFIN SAFETY GOGGLES FROM NOW ON

Sounds like he would've needed a whole friggin Hockey Mask.

DYNAGOD · « **Reply #84 on:** October 01, 2004, 10:36:22 pm »

painted it black again,see how it came out tomorrow morning..

MiKman · « **Reply #85 on:** October 02, 2004, 01:40:20 pm »

I hope that red under the hood there in the second picture isn't your blood

YIKES! should have been wearing a face sheild when doing that sort of thing. It's starting to look real nice tho excellent work!

DYNAGOD · « **Reply #86 on:** October 03, 2004, 12:34:37 pm »

one step forward two steps back..

The welding department is directly on the other side of the wall where i work on my cabinet at work.i had the cab on at lunch playing some garou and one of the welders decided to skip lunch and started to use the high frequency welder on the the other side of the wall, frying the computer inside the cabinet....
it bios beeped a shitload of times,the screen went haywire and then nothing..
it wont start ,the power lite comes on,fans spin up, drive spins,the yellow lite on the mobo is on, but it just does nothing..
what a pisser...

whammoed · « **Reply #87 on:** October 03, 2004, 07:33:11 pm »

geez, whats next? hang in there!
BTW, how did the paint turn out?

DYNAGOD · « **Reply #88 on:** October 03, 2004, 07:56:16 pm »

paint came out much better than last time, still managed to get a few areas not quite up to spec, but i plan on covering the flats on the base area with grip tape anyways so it will never be seen..i began painting the highlights on the taito raised lettering on the speaker pods, looks very nice

im using a water based fat,flat tip marker, so if i screw up i can always take it off..(just happened to be japanese too!! authenticity

) cost me 6 damn bucks at the arts and crafts store!! 6 bucks for a damn marker!!
ive got a intel perl mobo new in the box ive had for awhile now.. i bought at a comp usa midnight madness sale, but the chipset is different than that of the cpu in my dell.so ill have to at the minimum by a new processor..

i took the hood off today and brought it and the control panel home, thats shaves about 30 to 50 lbs off for the final move of the main assembly. ive done all i can at work (and some damage too

).its time to bring it home.. im gonna cardboard up the corners and flats and wrap it with some foam and beg and plead to try and get someone to help me bring it home to my second floor apartment.. i figure at present it weighs about 200-220lbs.
not bad all things considering, but its top heavy as all the weight lies in the monitor.

hopefully all my parts will be back from chrome tomorrow or tuesday

oh and i get my stiches outta my face on tuesday lol

DYNAGOD · « **Reply #89 on:** October 04, 2004, 07:12:08 pm »

marker didnt cut it...needed something a bit bolder. so i got a sample of some benjamin moore super white.

AGGIEZ · « **Reply #90 on:** October 05, 2004, 11:56:24 am »

Quote from: DYNAGOD on October 04, 2004, 07:12:08 pm

marker didnt cut it...needed something a bit bolder. so i got a sample of some benjamin moore super white.

Man I can't wait to see this thing done!

DYNAGOD · « **Reply #91 on:** October 06, 2004, 11:36:03 pm »

SITREP:

well the cabinet is finally at home!

i cant tell ya how glad i am for that..it was quite a fiasco getting up the stairs ,but its in and im very happy for that.

thats the good news...
the bad news is the brand new 200gb wd hard drive, and the arcadevga card are junk..im also suspecting the hd controller on the mobo is trash as well.

this will be going on arcadevga card number 3 for this project..

i get
"the display driver is not compatible with the display adapter installed in your system"

The device cannot start Code "10"

even manuall install and safe mode installs will not start the device..
its cooked..fried..toast...kaput...finito..

Sooo,im guess its off to ultimarc to place a new order..
this black cloud has to pass soon...

no red stripe yet, no parts back from chrome, no pod..
and nothing but a whole lot of bsod

Matt, GoC · « **Reply #92 on:** October 07, 2004, 12:58:18 am »

You're almost there. Don't give up hope. It's gonna feel awesome when you finally get it done and you get to play on it for the first time in your home. That's what I'm looking forward to on mine! Good luck!

-Matt

froggerman · « **Reply #93 on:** October 07, 2004, 01:03:58 am »

Have you had a chance to repair the wheel for the monitor rotation?

Matt, GoC · « **Reply #94 on:** October 07, 2004, 01:05:56 am »

I was just thinking, how could your vid card display anything if it's fried? I believe I've seen error code 10 on devices on my computer before. Can you fiddle with any settings like the IRQ or anything? It could just be the driver got corrupted or something it relies on.

DYNAGOD · « **Reply #95 on:** October 07, 2004, 10:08:37 am »

i have low level accpetance of the device.
bios show an ATI device on IRQ 3
however when i get into windows sys info and go to my irq's there is no such assignment nor anything listed under system info/components/video, the page is blank..
however,despite the fact that it wont assign it an irq or show anythign in video, it still detects it and tries to install it, but if i try to use the drivers provided i get a
"severe"
"the display driver is not compatible with the display adapter installed in your system"
..again if i manually install i get code 10.
evidently windows refuses to give it an irq.
but its still listed in my device manager with an !
im so confused, its not there ,but it is..

ive started with no card in the machine, no cable attached, removed my bios battery and reconfigured..
and i cant reinstall windows with this card in because the resolution the windows installer uses is not compatible with the arcade vga, it shows only half the screen..

what the hell! $:-\$

Matt, GoC · « **Reply #96 on:** October 07, 2004, 10:38:38 am »

What windows is this anyway? XP? 2000?

EDIT:
As far as reinstalling windows goes, doesn't the card have a monitor connection that you can use? Did you scan your drives to make sure nothing was corrupted during the power surge?

EDIT#2:
How's the nose?

whammoed · « **Reply #97 on:** October 07, 2004, 10:48:48 am »

Hey, at least the cabinet is looking nice. The black, red, and white look sweet!

DYNAGOD · « **Reply #98 on:** October 07, 2004, 01:12:20 pm »

that is a new hard drive with windows xp home.

i tried to install the card in my main computer to see if it was the card. , and now the same symptoms are happening there..and they did..
and now i cannot even reinstall the original card that was installed on the machine, so now i have 2 uselsss computers..
my only geuss is that this card is shorting out the agp slots in the mobos.
now i have 2 dead computers (vga only). the first one was a shitbox dell,but this one is a 2500$ hombuilt monster!! this card is killing pc's

i am unable to uninstall the ATI drivers in either machine either..
these drivers are ---steaming pile of meadow muffin---

RUNDLL
an excepction occured while trying to run c:/windows/system32/atiiiexx.dll,_infoenfguninstallinfffile_rundll-force_restart-flags:0x2010001 -inf_class:Display -clean

nor can i uninstall the ati control panel..

CthulhuLuke · « **Reply #99 on:** October 07, 2004, 03:21:03 pm »

Oh man, how many black cats, broken mirrors, and ladders have you been around lately? Sounds like everything is going bad! Well anyways, the hardware portion of this project looks freaking amazing! and I'm glad you're not giving up dude, I respect someone who has all these things go wrong but never gives up. And you know what, its kind of funny but you actually learn more when EVERYTHING goes wrong than you ever would if everything was plug and play. PS: well I know everything seems to have gone wrong so far so it probably wouldn't add to the curse, but considering you already have the Jpac which prevents signals above 15hz from getting through so you don't burn out the monitor, you could always try a regular ATI video card and powerstrip instead of the arcadevga. Oh ps: to reinstall JUST the xp drivers and system files, throw your Windows XP install cd into the computer, click "Install" by pressing enter, then when it finds your Windows XP partition, press "R" for repair, it'll overwrite your drivers/system files but keep everything else including programs, registry info, and all your settings.

DYNAGOD · « **Reply #100 on:** October 07, 2004, 08:49:35 pm »

thanks for all the support guys

the gaming gods are indeed both generous and cruel..
ive decided at this point there is obviously only once course of action to take.. rub the cabinet down with cheetah blood and obtain virgin sacrifices to make peace with the gaming gods by offerings them on the sacred altar of tron

i can see no other way

ChadTower · « **Reply #101 on:** October 08, 2004, 03:17:24 pm »

What a waste of a virgin.

Gunstar Hero · « **Reply #102 on:** October 08, 2004, 10:45:33 pm »

Well, if she would put out we wouldn't have to sacrifice her!

=)

ChadTower · « **Reply #103 on:** October 10, 2004, 12:48:40 pm »

Quote from: Gunstar Hero on October 08, 2004, 10:45:33 pm

Well, if she would put out we wouldn't have to sacrifice her!

=)

Wow, the rare point you just can't argue.

DYNAGOD · « **Reply #104 on:** October 10, 2004, 07:42:04 pm »

decided to do away with the idea of using grip tape in place of the old skid plate.
decided the more industrial look of aluminum diamond plate looked better. i still have to polish this piece up but i like the result so far.

also got my order in for the control panel

2 Seimitsu LS-32

10 buttons:
8------ Sanwa 30mm pushbuttons
(2 red,2 green,2 blue,2 yellow)
2----- 24 mm start buttons (blue)

simplygriff · « **Reply #105 on:** October 11, 2004, 02:29:13 pm »

Quote from: DYNAGOD on October 01, 2004, 10:36:22 pm

painted it black again,see how it came out tomorrow morning..

This machine is looking f'n sick. Mad props for going through all the turmoil to put this thing together. I don't think I could possibly have the patience to do this as much as I would love a japanese cab.

Quick question: What is that second game? The first is SamSho 3 right? Can't wait to see this thing completely finished for ya!
-G

DYNAGOD · « **Reply #106 on:** October 11, 2004, 05:29:34 pm »

THX!

samsho 2 and the other is garou mark of the wolves..
one of SNKs best.
i do love the japanese cabs, i figure who knows best about arcading than than the japanese! especially when shmupping.
theyve made it into a national affair, unlike here in the US where its all but a faded memory, present company excluded..

simplygriff · « **Reply #107 on:** October 12, 2004, 12:22:45 pm »

Samsho2. I should have known that. I always play with a buddy so I never see the story mode. And Garou: Mark of the Wolves. That name keeps popping up to me. Is that in Mame too? I thought I saw it...I need to finishconfiguring my box for Neo-Geo Games so I can try that and Last Blade and some of the Fatal Fury's I never tried. Thanks.
-G

DYNAGOD · « **Reply #108 on:** October 13, 2004, 12:46:52 pm »

it occured to me that now that ive disconnected the switchable power supply im going to have no way to power the overhead marqee..
i went out to bulbman.com and bought replacement tubes and starters for that freaky 100watt balast and im only going to be able to use it when im running my jamma games.
im assuming theres a superbrite led solution that can run off the +12v from a pc PSU right?

Also, thanks to the sheep , i went to a custom graphics store and had some recreations made of the instruction cards, marqees,and promotional posters for dragon blaze,battle bakraid and some others.
ill have those by this afternoon. they will be the final touch for the cabinet when i finally get it put back together.. pics to follow tonite when i get em.
my ---steaming pile of meadow muffin--- has been at chrome now for 3 1/2 weeks...im starting to get the sinking feeling somethig went wrong..they are the last pieces of the puzzle..

RayB · « **Reply #109 on:** October 13, 2004, 01:11:34 pm »

I have zero experience with Japanese cabs, but I do know that other cabs don't power the marquee light off the switching power supply. The switching power supply just puts out 5 and 12 volts for the game board, and maybe the coin door lights, coin meter, etc.

DYNAGOD · « **Reply #110 on:** October 13, 2004, 06:17:30 pm »

ooooooh goodies..

sorry for the washed out crappy photography

AGGIEZ · « **Reply #111 on:** October 13, 2004, 06:23:16 pm »

Man I can't wait to see the finished product!!!

I'm jonesing for a Jap cab now....where did you buy this one from??

DYNAGOD · « **Reply #112 on:** October 13, 2004, 09:06:30 pm »

arcade infinity, but they are not recomeneded..
condition of the cab was bad, it had been dropped. and another individual whom bought his at the same time from them was smashed when he got it..
if you search further up on this thread you will see they are even named in an injunction from snk playmore for selling bootleg software and hardware..
if you want a japanese cab..find a reputable source..do NOT buy from them.
pretty much no matter where you look or ask ,people will give you negative feedback on them..and for good reason

CthulhuLuke · « **Reply #113 on:** October 14, 2004, 04:39:31 am »

wow, where did you get the full prints of that art set? Dragon Blaze is very kick ass! So how exactly does all that art slap onto the cabinet? main marquee on the top riser thing, but where do the instruction cards go?

DYNAGOD · « **Reply #114 on:** October 14, 2004, 06:54:08 am »

you can get these materials from the Sheeps cave of shooting site.
http://www.world-of-arcades.com/APPA_Index_137714.htm
theres anything you could want and more there. but beware,download sparingly or you will be banned from the site! your allowed to download all of the contents,just dont do it all at once.. do like a letter a night.

the scans are 200dpi and are actual size full color copies of the originals, i took a few of these to the black and blueprints place and had them printed on some thick glossy paper.

main marqee in the riser pod, and the two instruction cards will be tucked behind the glass in the bezel.
the instructions lower center and the character information on the right hand center. there were japanese and US translations, I opted for the japanese cause it looks so much cooler and after all, it is a japanese cab. slowly im going to print all the games i like from the sheeps site,primarily verical shooters,so i can change my marqee and instruction cards with my games.
plus the full length promotional posters(if available) look sick on the wall behind the cabinet.

DYNAGOD · « **Reply #115 on:** October 14, 2004, 07:07:39 pm »

more goodies today..
two seimitsu LV-30 leafspring microswtiched 4-8 way sticks and an assortment of sanwa 30mm pushbuttons and 2 start buttons.

whammoed · « **Reply #116 on:** October 14, 2004, 09:57:24 pm »

Quote from: DYNAGOD on October 14, 2004, 07:07:39 pm

leafspring microswtiched

Um, what's a leafspring microswitch? $:-\$

DYNAGOD · « **Reply #117 on:** October 15, 2004, 07:25:43 am »

i know, im probobly not decribing it correctly..

theres a leafspring that when pushed by the stick initiates a microswitch..
in a typical leafspring i believe the leafspring IS the switch? correct?
i dunno

in the ultra good news deaprtment my THIRD ArcadeVGA arrived today for this project...

hopefully i will have better luck this time.
im extremely happy it arrived todays, as i can spend the weekend playing..even if my control panel isnt back from chrome..keyboard works for me..

i have two other questions,,
how to start a XP loaded PC by keystroke, and how to modify a coin mech to accept quarters..
any input,links or tips would be greatly appreciated.

JoeB · « **Reply #118 on:** October 15, 2004, 11:33:29 am »

Quote from: DYNAGOD on October 15, 2004, 07:25:43 am

i have two other questions,,
how to start a XP loaded PC by keystroke, and how to modify a coin mech to accept quarters..
any input,links or tips would be greatly appreciated.

It depends on your PC. My PC has a BIOS feature that lets it startup if power is restored. So I have it all wired to a power bar that it all for me.

As far as the coin mech.. that's easy. The coin mech is nothing more than a regular sensor just like on your joystick. Just wire it to the JPAC as button 1 or 2.

DYNAGOD · « **Reply #119 on:** October 15, 2004, 11:40:56 am »

i mean the coin mech physiaclly.. It only accpets japanese yens which are phsyically smaller than quarters.
i need to find the mechanical adjusment to modify the acceper to take the larger quarters as currency.
at present a quarter simply gets rejected. the Jpac already handles the input from the microswitch appropriately..

for input devices...
i think im going to uncase one of these and mill out three cutouts on the left hand side of my control panel to accodate it seamlessly.

http://www.cirque.com/products/serial-easy.html
next im going to get an eluminx indiglo black framed keyboard and put it on some ball bearing drawer slides just under the control panel so i can hide it when it in use..


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