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| fjl:
I'm still in the design process of my cab, unfortunately, but decided I wanted to go with dark blue or just plain black for the walls of my cab being that black was the basic color for most cabs. Anyways, I decided on side art for something very simple and basic but that still points out that its an arcade. Back when I was a kid and had my intellivision, my dad bought me Space Invaders. It was the first game I owned. So I kind of wanted to commemorate that with side art from the game. That reason and because the Space invaders aliens are pretty well known icons. So opted for plain and simple with this. Tell me what you think. But I was going through fotos of old cabs and someone already did something similar. Here... Regardless. What do you guys think of my cab? The marquee was just for fun. I don't plan to leave it with a Space Invader alien. I will add text. |
| leapinlew:
Trying to come up with new ideas while doing something retro is hard to do. Odds are, it's been done before. Your cab design looks fine, but seriously, who cares? Your the only one who should love it. What I think doesn't matter. Quit posting renderings and build something already! ;D |
| Hoopz:
I like the Intellivision idea and think it will look great. BUT, I may be slightly biased. ;D |
| fjl:
Can't, still stuck on the design part. Mostly on how to make the bezel glass stay in place. And yes, I do care what others think of my cab. I not only want to make this thing for my own pleasure but for others as well. It should be appealing so others would say, "nice work!" Even those that don't know about cab building. Appealing enough so they would want to play it. But regardless, I will make this cab in baby steps. Once I save money, I will buy the CP parts and build just a control panel first. See how it all works out and get MAMEwah to run and such. Then start building the cab. But for now, I'm still just reading Saints book and looking at other example cabs and getting ideas. I'm going to add as much as I can to this cab making it very versatile yet not bulky and or ugly. One thing I'm concerned about is trying to get control panel parts that run on USB. But I think there are way too many parts and not enough USB ports. Lets see one USB for the track ball, 2 for each 360 controller, 1 for the ipac, one for the tt2 spinner, 1 for the opti-pac... how many is that already? Do the USB hubs work okay? I don't want to use the PS2 port since I require that I still have use of my normal mouse and the keyboard. |
| leapinlew:
--- Quote from: efjayel on February 15, 2007, 02:22:46 pm ---I'm going to add as much as I can to this cab making it very versatile yet not bulky and or ugly. --- End quote --- Depends who you ask I guess. There are plenty of threads of guys who's wives don't think the cabs are nice looking. So... no matter how nice you make it - beauty is in the eye of the beholder. Just don't spend too much time trying to make a cab nice for everyone. If you look at the examples page, which I'm sure you have, you'll notice many many different types of cabs. --- Quote from: efjayel on February 15, 2007, 02:22:46 pm ---One thing I'm concerned about is trying to get control panel parts that run on USB. But I think there are way too many parts and not enough USB ports. Lets see one USB for the track ball, 2 for each 360 controller, 1 for the ipac, one for the tt2 spinner, 1 for the opti-pac... how many is that already? Do the USB hubs work okay? I don't want to use the PS2 port since I require that I still have use of my normal mouse and the keyboard. --- End quote --- USB hubs are fine. At some point, when you think your comfortable, you'll just have to jump in the fire and try to build this thing. You can only plan so much - you'll never find all the hidden gotchas. They aren't problems - they are challenges to be overcome. Good luck. |
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