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Gauntlet Legends Showcase - COMPLETE! 7/21/08
Paladin:
Getting close! I need to do the plexi, and the small covers that will hide where the two main parts connect to each other.
My friend came over yesterday and helped me get the monitor attached to the stand. It was definately a two person job, that thing weighs a ton. I gutted and sold my MAME cabinet this week also, so rather than hook up all the wires and power it on yesterday when I was exhausted I decided to wait until I could concentrate and make sure everything was hooked up right.
Parts slid next to each other, but not yet connected.
Paladin:
It works! I finally connected everything up and powered it on. I had a friend over, and we spent a couple hours playtesting. I found that I had swapped 2 switches on the control panel when cleaning, none of the lights in the control panel between the speakers are working even though I had already replaced one bad bulb, and there's some pincushion in the monitor.
I took a picture of the game, but there's a ton of reflections from the monitor plexi so it was hard to get a good photo. It makes it distracting when playing also. I don't know if the reflections are due to the curve to the plexi, or if it's something I've never noticed before because I've never had a pedestal style cab before. On smaller cabs your body blocks a lot of light from hitting the monitor, but with this style you're too far away to block.
SNAAKE:
showcase cabinet for ONE game..................................... :dunno
looks good though
Aceldamor:
--- Quote from: SNAAKE on July 10, 2008, 09:04:54 am ---showcase cabinet for ONE game..................................... :dunno
looks good though
--- End quote ---
So, if you had the means you wouldn't dedicate a cab solely to your favorite game? I used to play GL on a showcase in my arcade all the time. Hell, If I had the space I would dedicate a cab to one of my favs.
Nice work on your cab btw. Looks like an original PCB, is it? If so, how much did you pay for the board/hdd? Any plans to potentially convert it to Dark Legends? I seem to remember an arcade store on e-bay selling the roms /re-imaged hdd's for the DL conversions.
*edit for correction.
Paladin:
The original plan was to make it swappable between GL and MAME. I've got the Universal Video Converter to allow a PC to display on the med res monitor. I don't have the gpwiz49 interfaces (rumors of a new version on the ggg board). Now that it's together I don't know if I can fit a PC and GL both inside the cabinet. If I decase the PC and stick it on the back of the door panel it would work, but then removing the door would be a pain. I still have to look into it a bit more.
I've bought a 4GB compactflash card and an IDE/compactflash adapter to try and replace the hard drive with the flash memory. I haven't messed with it yet though, as I just got the game up and running. The ebay Dark Legacy upgrade is $75 for the 2 chips and a hard drive. I thought about emailing the seller to see if I could get it without the drive, as I should be able to make one from the MAME CHD file.
I paid $250 for the complete Gauntlet Legends electronics - monitor, PCB, HD (with 2 spares), complete control panel tub and complete wiring harness. I think I'm at around $400 for the parts to build the cab. That's about $650 for the complete setup - not including a couple new joysticks, the patttern cutting and T molding slot cutter router bits. Higher than I had planned, but as usual small things kept popping up that add to the cost.
I have to give credit to this site which inspired me: http://www.dragonslairfans.com/smfor/index.php?topic=6.0. After all the work getting the cabinet up and running, I'll need to take a break before I start figuring out what the next move is. I'm thinking Gauntlet Legends/MAME or Dreamcast/MAME.
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