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The Vewlix Fighter Cabinet - WIP. The cab is dead my friends.

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donnie1979:
WOW! fantastic work, it looks great! nice graftmenship there  :applaud:, the vewlix cab is going to be my next build love to have one of these baby's(and my will let me place it in the livingroom).

Gatsu:
thanks donnie.

Nothing really solid has been done to the cab. Been working on cleaning out my dads garage so i can move the pieces back in there to finish up the wood working and then repaint.

Reconsidered on ditching my original control panel idea. Too much work went into it and it won't be much work to make it usable and nice looking. So i will not be using the 2 madcatz te sticks as I am selling them to help fund the last few parts I need to order for the cab.

If I had a scanner I'd have some design ideas to show off. But I'll try to explain them as best as I can.

For the Vewlix style control panel, the section where the sticks & buttons go is removable. So I decided to do the same for my cab. Originally I was gonna have just 1 set of controls permanently mounted. Won't need to be the case anymore. I want to have a couple different control panel for different style games. Sanwa stuff for Street Fighter, Happ for Mortal Kombat (with mk art), neo geo will have its own control panel...etc. And it gives people who come over to play some options if they prefer one over the other. I personally dont care as long as I can play.

The main control panel section is gonna be bolted to the main body of the cab. But the actual player panel section will be mounted with magnets. That way they won't shift around as we play, but a good tug will remove it easily. And I won't have to worry about unscrewing and screwing down a control panel a lot, wearing out grip of the screw holes.

For the main body, I'm gonna buy an access panel door. There's a website I found that had some different styles and were pretty cost effective. I'm also gonna have a coin door. Just because I want one. I know its not on the original vewlix design....but I want one so....yeah. And there will be xbox 360 and PC in the cab. I only have room for 1 cab in the apartment, so I need to make this bad boy do everything I can for now. Otherwise I'd be starting a MK 1 style cab also.

Here's the site for the access door I'm thinking about:
http://www.proproductssales.com/

Not sure I can build an access panel door properly, but I may have to with the hole already cut in the front of the cab for it. Didn't plan properly for it.  :-[

Its gonna be a week or so before I can really start the wood working. But in the mean time Im gonna try to get my designs scanned and show what I plan on doing. See if you guys think its a good idea or not.

donnie1979:
Think its a great idea! all my friends played mk,ki so i just can use the HAPP controls but i like the idea that you have on changing cp's so people can play with controls that they preffer, i will keep my eye on this thread love to see how it comes out.

Gatsu:
So I had a talk with my father about the condition may cabinet parts were in after I left them in his garage for a while last year. Didn't end well. Keep in mind they were wrapped up in a tarp, and placed in a corner of his shop out of the way. Its a pretty big shop. Its a tarp that I paid for, and all of tools & bits I purchased were placed inside the cab for safe keeping.

Since the weather was cooling down, I decided to go back out to my dad's place and start some prep work to begin working on the cab again. So I peek in the garage.

Tarp was removed, my tools & bits scattered all over the place, and oil/grease covered parts and tools were laying all over my cab parts. Some parts of the control panel were being used to hold up parts of board he was cutting for something else. And to top it all off, the tarp I had bought was ripped and tossed in the garbage.

So being the level-headed individual I am, I dumped every container, toolbox and whatever else I could find all around the garage. A hurricane hit that place. All I asked was that he respected my parts and if he needed anything, feel free to use it, just put it back how you found it. I extended far beyond the same courtesy when I was using the space for building. Vacuumed up all the sawdust, organized tools and keep the floors cleared. Why is it so hard to not put sh#t on my cabinet? He has shelves ontop of shelves in there.

Needless to say. The parts are beyond saving now. And the project is dead. I might start another project in a year or so. But all the time and effort put into this project, to have it treated like garbage. Just couldn't take it.

opt2not:



:'(

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