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Outer Heaven: Metal Gear Solid themed MAME cab *99% done - art, TV & controls*
leapinlew:
Very nice work with the routing and the dustwashers
Timstuff:
Well, this project is about ready to stick a fork in, as I said before. Please forgive how crappy these pics are, but I took them at night using ceiling lights, so the lighting was pretty crappy (also, I need to clean up my den a lot). I'll be taking some high quality photos in the near future, for sure, but for now I just want you guys to see how she's coming!
Basically, the only things left to do are tightening a few things up. I accidentally broke the mouse hack that I did two years ago when I was installing my controls, so I decided to just order an Optiwiz since I decided that doing another hack wasn't worth my time. The rest of the controls however are wired to the Ipac2 and work like a dream. I also automated Mamewah to load up profiles specific to each emulator, which I was relieved to discover was extremely easy. I still need to hack a TV remote so that the TV turns on automatically (and I haven't set up Mamewah to automatically load up just yet), and I've also got a few odds and ends I need to take care of with the monitor and marquee glass, but other than that it's pretty much done.
Scott at Mamemarquees.com did an excellent job printing up all of my custom artwork. I used the spray-and-soak method for getting the sideart on, and I had almost no air bubbles to deal with afterwards.
I also got some custom coin door stickers with the Foxhound logo printed up. They were a serious pain to photograph while my superbright LEDs were on, so I'll probably take more pictures of them later later.
Also, despite popular belief, even a 20" CRT television can play vertical games just fine. As long as it has component inputs, I'd dare to say it'd take a pretty experienced eye to spot the difference between a TV with component cables and an actual arcade monitor. It's not quite "arcade accurate," but it's as close as you can get with an American TV.
Here are some more game pics.
And yes, you can run MGS and MGS2 on it... ;)
Well, that's all for today. For my next real update I'll hopefully have tied up most of the odds and ends, and have some high quality photographs of it!
Spaced Ace:
Sweet! Looks mean as sh*t too. The CPO rocks...
jeffhlewis:
love the side art, where'd you get it printed?
Portnoy:
Looks Awesome!! :applaud: