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Nintendo Themed Bartop Cabinet- 99% UPDATES
phines:
--- Quote from: leapinlew on February 19, 2007, 12:25:58 pm ---Ahh! Well hello! This looks good!
This is a fine looking cabinet. How big is the marquee area going to be? It might be tough to get much graphics in such a small area.
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Your bar cab inspired my design, so credits to Leapinlew..
Marquee area will be 4"x18"
If I crop my marquee design, that elimanates some white areas top and bottom, then the design it's self will be 4"x17", so I think it will work... more to come on the control panel.
Keep the comments coming, construction starting this weekend, or as soon as I get my controls in.
Jeff AMN:
What if you made the marquee black, and just left a 1"-2" white contoured outline around the Nintendo logo and robot? I think it could look pretty sharp. I'm not at home, or I'd photoshop you an example, but it's worth looking at.
leapinlew:
--- Quote from: phines on February 19, 2007, 12:35:00 pm ---Keep the comments coming, construction starting this weekend, or as soon as I get my controls in.
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Other things to consider:
What material are you building it from? If your building a Nintendo and plan on using the White T-molding like on the Nintendo cabinets in the arcade - I've only seen that T-mold color available in 9/16" and 3/4".
How are you handling the power entry?
Are you going to setup some external USB for gamepads?
Have you measured for you motherboard and PSU? (these take up the most room. The PSU - almost broke the deal for my bartop)
Got your speakers figured out yet?
Looking great! Get to cutting!
phines:
I need to figure out the power.. to keep things simple, I'll probably have a power strip with a hole drilled in the side of the cabinet so I can stick my finger in to turn the power on. I need to do some research on switches for the motherboard power... I may reuse something from the case or find out what kind of switch it is... The monitor turns on automatically with power... I'm not sure if I'm going to have a light for the marquee... right now I'm leaning towards no for the marquee light...
Speakers, yes... location, not sure, probably between monitor and marquee
I've measured the power supply and motherboard, and they should fit, the mother board is the box on the bottom of the cab on the picture above. It's not really that thick, but that is the measurement to the top of the fan/heatsink.
Thanks for the tips and comments... keep them coming! :applaud:
bmrust:
Im confused on how your CP will look...w/ the arrow buttons, you could put the joystick in the middle of them...
but the 7 button layout, would it just cut right into the Start/Select & A/B you have there? It also looks like the A/B would be completely cut out due to the trackball.
Just not sure where you're going w/ it, thats all.
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