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GGKoul:
Just a couple of questions:

- What are the dimentions of a standard Marquee?

- Where can one download Marquee's that goes in to the Mame/Marquee directory

- I've seen a couple of peope have created there own custom artwork for there control panels.  Just wondering, how you did created this (What program did you use) and does any have a site where I can d/l or a place where I can view some custom Control Panel designs?

Thanks
-GGKoul

Frobozz:


--- Quote ---What are the dimentions of a standard Marquee?
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Size of marquee varies, but a good "average" for early cabinets would be 6" x 24".  


--- Quote ---Where can one download Marquee's that goes in to the Mame/Marquee directory
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Look at Mameworld.net.  They have a link.


--- Quote ---I've seen a couple of peope have created there own custom artwork for there control panels.  Just wondering, how you did created this (What program did you use) and does any have a site where I can d/l or a place where I can view some custom Control Panel designs?
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I'm currently making a custom Marquee and some additional custom cabinet art and I'm using Photoshop 6.0 by Adobe.  It's very powerful, expensive and hard to learn for the beginner.  Adobe After FX is like a stripped-down, easier to use, less expensive Photoshop.  I'd recommend that ot PaintShop Pro.

If you're going to be printing these, or putting them on a CD for someone else to print professionally, remember, make them LARGE.  Screens are generally 72 dots per inch, and printers are 600 dpi +  What might be full-screen on your monitor could be the size of a postage stamp when printed at 1 to 1 resolution w/o stretching.  

Make sure you got lots of RAM and a fast CPU, working with 10,000 x 3000 pictures is time consuming.

Carsten Carlos:
Unless you make nothing but black text on white paper, 300 dpi shall be absolutely enough. The Hp designjets I use at work e.g. have also 600dpi, but basicly they make a pattern for each color, so you don't need the full resolution. Of course, if you have a fast PC and you want to show him who the master is, use 600dpi ;) But this way you end up with 4-times more data, and as Frobozz stated before, this could really do something to your system!

I know it is looser-software ;), but I just can handle CorelDraw much easier then the Photoshop. And, I even paid for Corel, if it only wouldn't have this XP-bug when looking in the printing properties, argh!


--- Quote ---a good "average" for early cabinets would be 6" x 24
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Sounds good, I currently got my plans with 7,8"x26", but I'm glad for any inch I could get free space above my head. Well, in the earlier days I never realized that this marquees are so low! But maybe I'm just to tall with 74". (sorry, have alwas problemls handling with foots, just got familiar with inches at least)

Frobozz:
You're right Carsten Carlos, I couldn't believe it either.  I recently measured a Dig Dug cabinet my friend had, and I couldn't believe how low the marquee seemed.  (Dig Dug marquee was 5 1/2" x 24" in size, base of marquee 64" from the ground, 72" total cabinet height, control panel 40" from ground, screen at about 75 degrees off horizontal.)

The joystick was REALLY SMALL too.  Only 1/2" of shaft from the metal control panel.  

Mike:
Just so you know back lit signs like marquees are usually printed at 406 dpi on a photo printer like a light jet. To reproduce the quality on a inkjet you'd have to print at 4000 dpi. So if you want a high quality crisp image I'd take it to a printing shop to get done. And expect the completed file to be about 500mb to a 1gb depending on the print size of the image.

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