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RaggedEdge:
Thanks Hulkster, I had never heard of CPViewer. I'll definitely be trying it out.

The monitor is still working so I guess it will survive it's earlier problems. Now that the weather has cooled a little bit and the house is a little cooler, I noticed the few random jitters that it has have gone away.

One thing that I have never done is mount my monitor to the cabinet. It has always been sitting on a few pieces of wood that were laying on the monitor shelf. If time permits today, I want to finally mount it properly and give it some kind of adjustment so I can get the angle and height that I want. I am thinking to assemble a bracket that can be adjusted with nuts on threaded bolts.

Another thing I have never done is fasten the bezel to anything. Like the monitor, it has been just pressed inside the cabinet and snug against the front of the monitor. I want to put a few strips of wood on the inside of the monitor cavity and stick some velcro on them that will match up with velcro on the back of the bezel.

One last thing that seems to make other machines look really good is a final piece of Lexan or Glass on the outside of the bezel.

Off to do some measuring...

RaggedEdge:
Just thought I would update my project postings. Mars Invasion is still working great, and I have not had any problems with the monitor. The other day I noticed the right direction on the left joystick (player one) was not working, so I lifted up the control panel and noticed when I plugged in the Ipac4 with the PS2 cable it flashed an error code. It was something like 12 or 13 flashes, which were hard to count. I immediately ordered another Ipac4 and just got done installing it tonight. Thanks to Andy at Ultimarc for getting it her so fast. Everything is working again and now I am pondering on how I can fix the old one. As far as I can tell, only the right direction for the player one joystick is not working. I wonder if it's as simple as replacing the IC chip on the left (the one with the flashing LED) side of the Ipac with a new chip, or is it some board level component that is failing. Would be nice to have a spare laying around in case this happens again.

IG-88:
AND HE'S BACK! ;D

Couldn't you just "re-assign" joystick right to another key in mame?

RaggedEdge:
yes, I could have, and I thought about that. What changed my mind was how many other keys were going to fail in the future? Now I have the new encoder and the old one. I want to see if I can determine what's wrong with the old one, and see if I can fix it. Maybe a chip replacement on the Ipac board.

RaggedEdge:
Hello all, I thought I would post a few pictures of some work I did on Mars Invasion. I little bit of history. I built this arcade right around the time my daughter was born and once she learned to walk, my free time went to zero. She is now 4 years old and is showing an interest in playing the games on it. That has been a nice surprise, so now it gives me some more incentive to work on a few things that had been bothering me that I left unfinished. Ever since I got the 27" monitor, I had not mounted it. I just stuck it in the monitor cavity and positioned it well enough to put the bezel on it. Finally, this past week I permanently mounted the monitor and put some strips of wood with Velcro to fasten the bezel to. Anyway here are a few photos of the recent work I did on it.

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