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About to start my first cab, stuck on theme, art.

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Chris2:

Out of curiosity, what is the room you're putting the cabinet in like? What things do you like? For example, I love Nintendo, so on a future project, I'm planning on adding various homages to Nintendo as side art. You should probably look for things you like and incorporate that your design.

Chris2:


--- Quote from: Crowquill on August 18, 2007, 02:28:56 am ---Maybe somebody will do a Rubik's Cube themed cabinet next.

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That'd be awesome. You'd make a giant Rubik's Cube, stick it on a pole so that the sides were perpendicular to the ground, and hook up different control sets for each of the four sides. Just turn to access a new control set, say:

side 1: 4 player
side 2: Rampart
side 3: Tron?
side 4: Driving/shooting

That'd be a heck of a project.

SodaPopinksi:

My advice would be to design the cab exactly how you want it. IMO an "arcade authentic" cab is a real arcade machine or an exact replica of one. I think arcade-like is a more appropriate term for many projects.

I'm in the process of building some cabs for older video games that were never arcade machines. I would say go for the Transformers art if you'd like to. There was never a Transformers arcade game, but there were indeed some old Transformer games http://www.1up.com/do/feature?cId=3160736 (however crappy) You could likely use Mala, AtomicFE or config Mamewah to boot directly to the C64 game and be the owner of the only Transformer arcade machine in existence hehe. You can just exit from it to the FE and whatever other emulators you want to run. Perhaps the PS2 game could work in a similar way.

I think a Transformers theme would look pretty darn cool with the old box art that I loved as a kid in the 80's especially. Like the red graph fading to black and the metallic Transformers logo/words on the marquee w/ a robot or two. Or black and purple for a decepticon theme. Then some large robots on the sides with the graph background... maybe could have them scanned from the boxes or a poster.



bfauska:

Somebody (I think a prominent member of this forum) once did a Zelda themed CP and got a lot of flac for it from the crapmame guy.  The project looked well designed and executed but for some it just wasn't arcade authentic.  SO WHAT.  We are Building Y(our) Own Arcade Controls aren't we.  Isn't this whole hobby driven by the fantasy of either owning an entire Arcade or at least a few machines from our youth.  So many of us are trying to relive our youth or live some life we missed or weren't as connected to as we would have liked, that's like asking for time travel... it's not going to happen.  It is no more of a fantasy to imagine that a transformers arcade machine existed and that you have the only remaining cabinet.  I say the art is definitely there, just waiting to be adapted into the cabinet of your dreams, use it.  Transformers as an art source is one of the most appropriate ideas I've seen here in a while.  It wasn't a game but it probably should have been. 

And just to be clear I'm not just some Transformers fanboy who's overexcited about the idea of your project...  I don't know if I ever owned a Transformers toy (too preoccupied with GI joe), never watched the cartoon, and I haven't seen the film yet.  But with a logo like theirs and a premise like that it just begs to be an arcade machine.

ONE requirement though...  If you do a Transformers machine it must  be some version of a rotating or swappable CP, and have a rotating monitor, probably even shape shift from desktop CP to cocktail to bartop to cabaret to upright to showcase to sit-down to environmental.  Now that would be a project.

gbeef:

Sweet im from calgary also. I battled with what your going through, deciding on what to do or design. I agree with the above design a cabinet on an oringal cab or make a copy of it. Design the cab on what game you loved to most in the arcade... Or if you stuck just go out and buy a used unit and do a restore...

I went for the longest time deciding on what to do build or buy, in the end i really lucked out i bought a cab from calgary amusement, i purchased a killer instinct cab for 200.00 bucks!.. i wouldnt hesitate to buy from him again. Plus if u need parts hes the hook up locally.  In the end im gald i bought a used cab i probly saved like 600.00 in parts.. i did end up gutted and redoing everything to mame. i think i spend like 550.00 total for everything.

anyways id personally go with a cab design based on a game you liked. I perosnally think it looks better then a MAME branded cab.

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