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MAME in baby steps
skippy0420:
"Sometimes you just have to pee in the sink"
Charles Bukowski
:dunno
Will be selling the inards of my existing cab and going straight MAME. This will be my first go around at building a MAME cab. I am only building a 2 player cab with 6 buttons for each player and an extra 4 way joystick for the 1 player pac and such. I am unsure about the trackball at this time.
I already have:
TOKN32 (from what I have read a 2 player with limited buttons should work)
2 Ultimate 8 ways
1 4 way(came with cab, unsure of status at this time)
16 horiz HAPP buttons
2 (1-2 player buttons)
3 computers + various parts
3 monitors (various sizes 15, 17 and 17)
Centipede Cab(conv'd to Armed Formation F(?) but gutted, pic to come
Lutus:
If you plan on converting this thing, please don't do anything crazy that would damage the integrity of the cabinet. In other words, make it so that someone down the line could convert back to a centipede if they really wanted to in the future.
I say this because I converted a Space Invaders machine into a MAME machine by replacing the control panel with a new piece of wood. I now am trying to restore it back to an original Space Invaders. In hind sight I wish I would have kept the thing original to begin with.
You can always do what you want, I am just putting my two cents out there.
By the way, there are numerous project on this forum and other restorations that have filled in holes on metal control panels like yours using bondo, etc... Might want to take a look at some of that.
PS. You could always restore all the artwork back to centipede (marquee, sideart, bezel) and that way it would like great, and down the road a restoration would be a cinch.
Just think about it and good luck. :cheers:
skippy0420:
Lutus - I understand what you are getting at. I do not plan on destroying the cabinet as I am a big fan of the Centipede.
The cabinet came with what looks like the control panel to Armed Formation F but I am not sure as I have not located a pic of it anywhere on the internet. So this was already converted from Centipede to something prior to me getting the cab.
The existing control panel has a few latches and a hinge that hold it in place. I am only using the control panel for the measurements to replace it with a custom CP but I will NOT be cutting into the existing cabinet in any way/shape or form. I would like to uphold my new duties as a fellow MAMER(gamer).
I would like to strip the ugly green/blue color from the sides and put the centipede art back on but I am not sure how much the particle board would take.
any suggestions?
skippy0420:
This is the control panel that I would like to produce to just 'plug' into the area that the original was. This was on a website Vesperworks. There was no e-mail to this person but maybe someone here knows of him/her.
http://vesperworks.com/mame/pictures/IMG_2548.html
Lutus:
I wonder how much support that thing would have if you leaned on the very front of the control panel. Doesn't look like it would take much force to make the thing break. I suggest this only because people do strange things waiting between games for them to load etc... Most common thing is to place both hands on the control panel and shift your weight to the other foot.
Or slam the control panel with your fist in frustration!!! :laugh2:
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