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Arcade Odyssey - FINISHED! (vid)
« on: February 16, 2009, 08:54:16 pm »
Put the final touches on last night.  Took six months and a day to complete.  Obviously inspired by Knievel Kustoms' awesome Neon Mame, but with my own touches.  Coulnd't have done it without the support of the BYOAC and GameEx community.  Thank for all your help!

Arcade Odyssey: Finished! (No. 1)

Build diary at my project website:
http://rdowney.com/arcadeodyssey/
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Re: Arcade Odyssey - FINISHED! (vid)
« Reply #1 on: February 16, 2009, 09:37:05 pm »
Fantastic looking cab!  :cheers:
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Re: Arcade Odyssey - FINISHED! (vid)
« Reply #2 on: February 18, 2009, 03:03:15 pm »
Beautiful job!  Question...What are you using at the top of your plexi or glass to make the transition between the wood the speakers are mounted to and the plexi on the outside?  I can see it when from the third image of your finished product link and it looks plastic.  Makes it look really professional and clean.

Also, what are you using at the top of the plexi on the inside of the cabinet to hold it in place?


Thanks!

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« Reply #3 on: February 18, 2009, 03:55:29 pm »
I love it!  How much was that beautiful flat screen monitor?

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Re: Arcade Odyssey - FINISHED! (vid)
« Reply #4 on: February 18, 2009, 10:55:18 pm »
Excellent!
Very clean looking cab.

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Re: Arcade Odyssey - FINISHED! (vid)
« Reply #5 on: February 19, 2009, 12:33:44 am »


mmmmmm, shiny...


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Re: Arcade Odyssey - FINISHED! (vid)
« Reply #6 on: February 21, 2009, 05:00:40 am »
Totally awesome cabinet! I love the artwork in particular. Have been looking for such a retro space theme myself for a long time now and think you hit it.

If I may, a couple of suggestions for improvement that I urge you to implement:
Integrate HAL !!! Rework the panel beneath the screen and build in the camera eye right in the middle. Also you may want to think about giving you PC the voice of HAL.
On top of that we need to create a special intro video that shows the famous transformation of the bone that the ape throws into the air, into a MAME Cabinet in the middle of space  :laugh:

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Re: Arcade Odyssey - FINISHED! (vid)
« Reply #7 on: February 21, 2009, 05:47:20 pm »

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Re: Arcade Odyssey - FINISHED! (vid)
« Reply #8 on: February 21, 2009, 09:38:46 pm »
Thanks for the positive comments!

To answer a few questions (which I'll do in separate posts):

First, it's not an LCD screen, it's a 27" CRT from Nieman Displays:


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« Reply #9 on: February 21, 2009, 09:46:36 pm »
Next, the monitor glass retention system was one of the more complicated aspects of the design.  Basically, there is a sliding piece of wood that pushes the glass up against another, fixed piece of wood.  It's hard to explain, but hopefully these diagrams will help:



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« Reply #10 on: February 21, 2009, 09:50:25 pm »
And here are some pictures that may help show what's going on:

The movable piece:


Open:


Closed (pushing against glass):

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« Reply #11 on: February 21, 2009, 09:51:52 pm »
And the HAL eye is a good idea.  Not sure I'm up for modifications at this point, seeing that I just finished!  (Now I want to play!)  But any ideas what I could use for the eye?

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Re: Arcade Odyssey - FINISHED! (vid)
« Reply #12 on: February 22, 2009, 11:53:14 am »
Were did you get the metal 7 port usb hub from !!!!
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« Reply #13 on: February 22, 2009, 02:44:23 pm »
Yeah, I LOVE my HUB!  (Ok, that sounded weird.)  I got it at USB Gear (there is a four port version too).  It's a bit expensive, but I think it's a good investment.

http://www.usbgear.com/USB-PRODUCT-DETAILS.cfm?sku=USBG-7U2ML&catid=104&cats=104



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Re: Arcade Odyssey - FINISHED! (vid)
« Reply #14 on: February 22, 2009, 09:45:57 pm »
Amazing work on the CP, simply amazing man. Nice, website too. I see you use Arles to do the image pages, I thought I was the only one who used it lol.

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Re: Arcade Odyssey - FINISHED! (vid)
« Reply #15 on: February 23, 2009, 11:46:17 am »
What are you using on the outside over the gap where the speaker panel meets the monitor glass?  Looks like a 90 degree peice of plastic.  I am trying to find something similar.

Thanks

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« Reply #16 on: February 23, 2009, 12:01:08 pm »
There is no gap where the monitor glass meets the speaker panel.  Take a look at the diagrams above.  There is a sliding piece of wood behind the glass that pushes the glass snug up against the speaker panel.  I also posted this Google Sketchup version on the main board:



Does that clear things up?  Which picture are you looking at that makes you think there is a 90 degree piece of plastic?
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« Reply #17 on: February 23, 2009, 12:53:16 pm »
So how much was the monitor and where did you get it?  What resolutions does it support?   :cheers:

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« Reply #18 on: February 23, 2009, 01:48:21 pm »
The monitor is from Nieman Displays in Canada.  It supports VGA, SVGA and XGA.  It costs $450, but shipping to Chicago was another $150(!).  Here is a link:

http://niemandisplays.com/nieman_video_displays_008.htm

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Re: Arcade Odyssey - FINISHED! (vid)
« Reply #19 on: February 23, 2009, 07:38:43 pm »
So all your angled cuts are 45 degree cuts done with the router? No 30 or 60 degree cuts in there anywhere? I would've thought that some of the angles for the back panels would be tricky with just a 45 degree router bit.

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« Reply #20 on: February 23, 2009, 08:53:25 pm »
Yes, all the joints are 45 degress, made with a router bit.  See below, and my explanation that follows.



1) This is what the ideal joint would look like if you beveled the edge of one of the boards in the joint.  It creates a lip on the inside, but that doesn't matter and is really pretty small.

2) This is more realistic to what I actually got, which is a gap because of imperfections in the allignment. 

3) No problem, I used wood fill (bondo) and then just rounded off the whole joint with some sandpaper.

Now, to get even more "realistic."  I was using 3/4" MDF, and you really can't get a 45 degree chamfer bit for a router that will go all the way through the edge (they're just too big for a handheld router).  Instead, I got  a lip on the routered board that looks something like the top drawing below.  But no problem.  First I sanded off the lip on the inside before gluing the two pieces together, and then I used bondo and sandpaper on the outside edge.  These imperfections are exagerated in the drawing, and the result was a nice smooth curve.



BTW, the same idea is used where the speaker panel met the small piece where the marquee is, but I didn't chamfer either piece.  That left a big gap (as you can see in the Google Sketchup) but that wasn't a problem because nobody sees that part.  I just filled it with Bondo and wood glue.  The result was great.

I should add that the whole cabinet was built with dado joints, so the OTHER edges of these boards were firmly secured in dado joints.  The joint that is pictured above was not that important to the structure.  It was mostly cosmetic.    


[EDIT] I should also add that most of the gap is actually filled by the wood glue (Titebond III) and only a small bit had to be filled with bondo.
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Re: Arcade Odyssey - FINISHED! (vid)
« Reply #21 on: February 24, 2009, 07:52:43 am »
Maybe I am just seeing things, but if I look at the 3rd picture on your page under The Finished Product link it looks like something covering where the monitor glass meets the wood the speakers are mounted to.

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« Reply #22 on: February 24, 2009, 08:01:27 am »
It's just a reflection in the monitor glass.  Take a look at this picture.  It has it's own weird reflection that makes it look like the glass comes off of the speaker panel in the middle, but it doesn't.  If you look at the corner where the glass meets the cab side and the speaker panel, you'll see that they form a tight fit.  The glass is against the speaker panel all the way across the front of the cab.


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Re: Arcade Odyssey - FINISHED! (vid)
« Reply #23 on: June 30, 2009, 08:58:02 pm »
(Hopefully you're still roaming around here and will actually see this post...)

Fantastic looking cab, and I really appreciate all of the documentation on your website!

I was hoping to solicit your thoughts on your hi-res CRT monitor, and why you chose it over a model that supports the lower, more common arcade resolutions? 

Yours looks gorgeous in the videos.  I'm torn between a model like yours (VGA, SVGA, XGA) and something like the WG D9800.  I'm curious about your opinion on how it looks when running the old games like DK, Centipede, Pac-Man, etc.?  What resolution do you use for those old CGA games?

Since you've had it for a while now, any other observations or input is greatly appreciated!
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« Reply #24 on: July 02, 2009, 11:34:26 pm »
Glad you like the cab!  I still play it every night.

I went with the higher-res so that I could play PC games, but it turns out that I never put it into the 1024x768 mode and run it at 800x600 all the time (mame and PC).  It's just easier that way and I don't like the strain it puts on the moniter when it changes resolutions.  And it turns out that that PC games look more "arcady" at 800x600 anyway, and I like them better that way.  Oh, and the old school games look fantastic.

So, if I had it to do over again, I would just go for a crt that had 800x600 max res.
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« Reply #25 on: July 03, 2009, 05:13:56 pm »
Awesome cab!

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Re: Arcade Odyssey - FINISHED! (vid)
« Reply #26 on: July 03, 2009, 08:03:30 pm »
The monitor is from Nieman Displays in Canada.  It supports VGA, SVGA and XGA.  It costs $450, but shipping to Chicago was another $150(!).  Here is a link:

http://niemandisplays.com/nieman_video_displays_008.htm

Excellent, that's a great option for Canucks. Cambridge is only about an hour from me, I could probably do a pick-up (if I drove :P).
Impressive cabinet, incredible work.

Thanks again for the link.
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Re: Arcade Odyssey - FINISHED! (vid)
« Reply #27 on: July 04, 2009, 06:49:36 pm »
thats a sexy cab.