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New Lowboy Cab from Scratch
Lord Hiryu:
Hi guys!!!
Well, I'm glad to show you my last creation...(it is not finished yet!!)
Is a based lowboy cab for a friend of mine.
BTW, the downside of the cab is more similar to the Taito's Arcade from the 80's.
The core is a PIV 1.3Ghz with 512Mb Ram, Ms-Dos O.S, Advmame 0.99, Advmenu, SoundCard Integrated and a Nvidia Geforce 2 Mx.
For the controls I will do a matrix using the LPT1 of the PC.
The monitor is an Hantarex MTC 9000 20" new from box!!!
Now, the pictures of the process.
Cutting and mounting the chassis of the cab using pinewood.
The sides of the cab, ready cutter-ed on TEKA wood...(to achieve a retro flavour!!!)
A picture of the new monitor.
The monitor placed on the right way!!!
Putting the pieces together!! (the yellow molding is provisional yet. Finally will be Red Molding)
The Coin Door placed on the front of the cab with the MDF control panel.
The rear of the cab is ready on place. Also, I placed the T-Sticks to see if they fits OK.
Testing the monitor. Power on the PC, the image is scrambling, the bios shows ok, the menu ok, the game works.....ready to save Jessica!!!!
Now, the artworks.
For the artwoks I vectorized some graphics for the Japanese flyer of the Phoenix game..(more hardest than an standard Danmakku!!!), and later, I does a retro composition.
The Marquee and the CPO.
The CPO is provisional too. All the arts are printed on an standard A3 laser printer, on normal paper to confirm if it fits ok or not. Also, if you see some brights on the paper, don't worry about that, 'cause is the adhesive tape that I using to fix the papers....:D.
BTW, I think I will change some colours....(the blue ones seems maroon...(too many yellow on the CMYK) and also will be replace some elements, as putting new ones (for the control buttons...ESC, PAUSE, OK and RESET)
And the side-art!!!!
Now, with the red U-Molding...(is like our T-Molding but has a "U" form. Here in Spain is too hard to find T-Molding)
Lights out, Phoenix in all it's splendor!!!!
It's not finished yet.
I rest to do the interface for the controls, fixed the artwork for the marquee, print on vinyl the arts, doing the plastic protect for the CPO, done a card board bezel........there's enough work yet, but it beggins to seem a arcade cab.
And finally, a video with the machine working and a few comments on it (It's in spanish....sorry guys..:P )
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I hope you agree.
Cheers.
Twin-X:
Man so simple and yet it looks brilliant.
Great graphics. I like it alot.
TOK:
They never had that style of cab anywhere around me, but I think they look fantastic. Much nicer than the typical US cabaret and with a bigger monitor too. Very nice build. :cheers:
Lord Hiryu:
Hi TOK, I think on the same way as you.
I don't understand the American guys.
In his country there are plenty of dedicated machines from the 80's and 70's too, and with the auctions, are easy to achieve one for a low price.
In Spain, when the bomb of arcade video-games explodes, was in the beginins of the 80's, and it's very strange to find a dedicated machine, the major problem was there only a few companies as SONIC, CIDELSA or PETACO do this kind of decoration.
I friend of mine has an original Gauntlet, the same model as the American, but with all the texts in Spanish, a very rare one.
I suppose that our houses are big, and better make a big cab than a little one, but in my opinion, they're some weird experiments, with all this "Huuuuuugeeee" panels, as the wings of an aeroplane with hundred buttons....
leapinlew:
--- Quote from: TOK on August 01, 2008, 05:54:22 am ---They never had that style of cab anywhere around me, but I think they look fantastic. Much nicer than the typical US cabaret and with a bigger monitor too. Very nice build. :cheers:
--- End quote ---
I agree. I like this design.
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