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Bella's Arcade [FINISHED]
javeryh:
Thanks. I'm going to give that a try. I worked for another 3 hours today but again didn't do much. I installed the speakers and marquee light - the speakers were a huge pain because I had to open them up and then mount them to the bottom marquee panel. I ended up drilling my own screw holes so they would stay in place. Also, I finally got the hinged door opening framed out and the hinges in place on both the panel and the opening. The door isn't hung yet but I am going to do that tomorrow when I have more patience. It is going to require a lot of tweaking.
I think by tomorrow the only thing I'll have left to do is install the bezel and CP (kind of a big deal!). Pics to come tomorrow!
javeryh:
Installing the speakers was a little tougher than I anticipated (just like everything else). I thought it was going to be a 20 minute job but it ended up taking well over an hour. I bought a set of cheap 2.1 speakers from CompUSA to put in the cabinet. I already had the holes cut out in the panel where the speakers were going to be mounted. I ended up removing the speakers from the casing for installation but I still used the front panel of the speaker casing to secure the speakers in place. Pics and a more detailed explanation can be found HERE.
Pics:
javeryh:
Well, I think I've finalized the CP design. The first one is what I'm going with but it went through several phases as you can see before I settled on it. I hope to make a mock-up this week but it might be tough due to work...
Final design:
Design #3
Design #2
Design #1
javeryh:
I started to make a mock-up CP last night and the button layout forced the height of the CP to be 6-7/8" tall which seems a little high. I have room for it but that means there is a lot of dead space on the CP (which I could use to install a spinner) so I'm not sure overall how it will look. I'm going to go ahead and finish drilling out the holes for the action buttons and joystick (which is arriving today!) and maybe even cover it in black vinyl to see what the "finished CP" will look like.
I'm also not sure where exactly to put the joystick and action buttons - how far apart should they be? I'm going to center them from top to bottom but I'm not sure how close to each other they should be...
If I decide to scrap it, no big deal - it only takes an hour or so to layout the buttons and drill out the holes...
Another CP thought to shrink it in size:
MinerAl:
You might want to consider non-arcade buttons for the non-arcade things like pause and escape. A couple of radio shack 1/4 inch pushbutton switches would take up less vertical space than one arcade button. They even look like the start buttons from Midway cocktail machines, so they aren't horribly un-authentic. They're also candidates for other-than-on-the-CP buttons. I'd like to put two translucent red coin buttons on a faux coin door on the front panel of my next mini-project.
Just some thoughts.
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