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M.Lanza:
So it's been awhile, and the cabinet has changed a couple of times.
I had stripped it down and re-jammatised it so I could play tetris plus again
because it still isn't fully emulated in mame.
The first thing I needed was a new monitor. I could have probably rotated the vga
monitor and used a video converter to play my jamma boards on it, but 15khz games
look best on a 15khz monitor, so I decided to get a new monitor.
I didn't really want to pay what a new monitor would have cost, so I decided to try
my hand at converting a television tube into a monitor.
I found a 20" zenith space command t.v. at the salvation army for about $5.00 and
ordered a new arcade monitor chassis from this site.
http://www.8liners.com/datatech/monitor.html
About a week later I received the chassis. After following the directions on the site,
This was the result.
Now that I had a working monitor, I needed to mount it in the cabinet.
After measuring the tube, I got a sheet of plywood and cut out a hole in the center
to fit the tube and ended up with this.
After painting the board, I mounted the tube in the cabinet.
After mounting the tube and chassis in the cabinet, I powered it on despite not having
an isolation transformer. It worked great for about an hour until the chassis died. Oops!
After a couple of months passed, I finally bought a new chassis and iso transformer
and the machine was operational again.
Well, I played a lot of tetris plus, but soon grew bored of it, so I decided to convert
the control panel to a neo geo layout.
I Bought a 120-in-1 cartridge, and discovered that my board didn't produce sound.
I performed a cap kit, but it didn't help, so That Was when I decided to full out mame
it again.
I started out by buying a Jpac, because not only did I need an encoder. I also needed a
video amp and the Jpac's ability to divide a 30khz video signal is a solid plus.
Here are some pics of the cabinet as it currently sits, with the pc installed and running.
This cabinet will be strictly used for horizontal games. There won't be any of this trying
to squeeze vertical games into a 20" horizontal screen crap going on.
Besides, It just gives me an excuse to finally build a cabinet from scratch, but I'll leave
that for another thread.
Now, in order to take full advantage of the horizontal monitor setup, I'll need a control
panel to match. In other words, I need a 6 button per player setup.
As you can tell from my previous pics of the panel, it's pretty mangled, so I pretty
much have to start from scratch.
Yea for power tools!
I decided to break out the grinder and create a blank canvas, so to speak.
I've still got a bit of trimming to do, but the plan is to mount new plywood
under the panel, smooth out the top with bondo, and drill the new holes.