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Top 10 Mame mistakes that keep getting copied from one machine to another.
Tiger-Heli:
--- Quote from: ChadTower on March 15, 2007, 12:30:02 pm ---
Just thought of one that should probably be #1 on the entire list:
Building half the cab before the design is finished. So often we see guys still making design decisions 85% of the way into the project and it never fails to make the project more painful and longer than it had to be.
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And the related - Playing the arcade before the cabinet is done - which leads to a cab with no marquee or sideart, but no more work gets done on it b/c the owner is too busy trying to top his Galaga hi-score.
btp2k2:
OK, that said....is a cab considered "Not done" without sideart?
Marquee? Yeah....that one is pretty easy to say "not done" if it is missing that.....but with sideart...a little tougher. I have a little nook in my bonus room that perfectly fits three cabs (It's kinda cool cause it reminds me of how they used to line em up in the arcades). Because they are side by side and the ones on the outside see the wall, are my cabs considered unfinished cause I didn't do sideart?
I think art is another one of those personal preference things....a marquee is a requirement, otherwise you would have a big open space with a light staring at you....and probably a good CPO....anything else though I think is up to the building/user.
ChadTower:
A cab is done when all design elements are constructed, tested, and are fully working. It is only "not done" without sideart if sideart was in the design plan.
btp2k2:
Ah....good call!
That is why I am rebuilding my first cab....it suffered from the "I just want to play!" problem...
Tiger-Heli:
--- Quote from: ChadTower on March 15, 2007, 01:19:17 pm ---A cab is done when all design elements are constructed, tested, and are fully working. It is only "not done" without sideart if sideart was in the design plan.
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Agreed - I was more referring to the cab with no sideart, paint, t-molding, bezel, marquee, lower panel, but the monitor, computer, and joysticks and buttons and encoder are in place, so its in effect "done", b/c it's now playable.