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Bella's Arcade [FINISHED]
javeryh:
--- Quote from: theCoder on September 28, 2007, 05:26:15 pm ---Some of the simplest jobs can really take forever. I usually use masking tape for this type of work. Put some down, draw the lines, do the work, remove tape. It is much easier to deal with the sticky stuff than pencil marks.
I can relate to showing up a little late in the morning. It was that way the first week after completing my driving cab.
So will you paint your next one the same way? That was quite an ordeal wasn't it. The paint process from hell, yea, that was the summer of what, oh, yea, 2007. It was good to go through that process together with you.
Now all you need is some blinky lights....
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That's a great tip about the masking tape... I never think of the easiest way to do something. I'm pretty sure the next one I build is going to be out of birch plywood and I will be staining and not painting it (I'm not 100% sure though - I'm still planning out). I'm not sure if I will ever go through that again - it was nice to have someone else trying the same thing at the same time though. I REALLY like the way the finish came out and so far when showing the cab to two different people their first comment was "wow - where did you buy this awesome pink material from?" and that's just about the nicest thing anyone can say about it to me. So I don't know... I'll probably give it another try some time down the road - maybe for my son's arcade cabinet I'll have to build in about 3 years.
Blinky lights would be awesome for the next one... I really want to try getting into lighting a cab but I'm afraid it's a little beyond my skill set. I'll give it a shot eventually though - I need to think of a cool way to implement it. :cheers:
--- Quote from: rockin_rick on September 28, 2007, 05:51:44 pm ---Cool, great work! I wish I had my project done (OK started...)
--- Quote from: javeryh on September 28, 2007, 12:28:03 pm ---....and the computer booted straight to a random game on my gamelist
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For some reason I'm intrigued on what game it was. Did you play it?
Rick
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It booted to "Arabian" and I did play the first level (but misspelled Arabian ;D).
javeryh:
One of the last things I have left to do on this cabinet other than configure the software is to get the coin door working. I bought a Happs "Small Single Coin Door" which comes with two $0.25 coin mechs to accept quarters (or tokens).
The setup is pretty basic - a microswitch is tripped when a quarter is inserted into the coin slot which sends a signal just like any other button press on the cabinet would do. I decided to wire both the player 1 and player 2 coin slots to the same input on my U360 joystick wiring harness so no matter which slot the coin is put in it will register as a "credit" for player 1. This doesn't pose a problem because most of the alternating 2 player games don't care which coin slot the quarter is inserted into. If two coins are entered into the same slot you press the "Player 2 Start" button for a 2 player game. Also, since the cabinet does not have 2 player simultaneous controls all of those games will be available in 1 player mode only.
Anyway, wiring up the microswitches was a snap - I wired the NO (normally open) pin on each switch to the last wire on the U360 wiring harness (which has been set to "insert coin") and the bottom ground pin on each switch to another ground wire on the control panel completing the loop. I should note that the microswitches on my coin door had the NO and NC (normally closed) pins reversed compared to the standard white pushbutton microswitch. It took me a minute to figure out when nothing was happening when I inserted the coin. Simple!
Everything works like it should but just as I thought, after about 10 minutes of playing on the cabinet, fumbling for quarters/tokens every single time I wanted to play something was a huge pain. I think I'm going to try and rig the coin return buttons to act as "insert coin" buttons when pressed which should eliminate the need to have quarters/tokens on hand all the time.
I'm not 100% sure how I'm going to do this (add a microswitch or install a lever) but I don't think it will be too hard. Stay tuned.
mountain:
Here is a picture of how I did mine.
I found a microswitch with a long lever and mounted it as shown. Luckily there were some existing holes that lined up perfectly.
Good luck
Tiger-Heli:
Also - http://1uparcade.robandmitsue.com/projects-coinbuttons.html
theCoder:
Did you end up getting the Mame hi score logic working?
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