I haven't updated this post in a while. This cabinet has been coming along slowly but surely. It's a project some fellow employees and I have taken on for the company we work for, and it's been going pretty smooth so far.
Here's the progress that has gone into this cabinet so far:
- Re-enforced the structure of the cabinet. Went around the cabinet and tightened/installed screws and glue to have it a lot more solid feeling.
- Re-capped the monitor, colours are more vibrant now, but there's still a brightness issue. We'll have to fiddle with the control knobs to see if there anything we can do to fix that.
- Fixed wood blemishes with wood-filler. Man, i love that stuff.
- Primed and Sanded the sides for Vinyl Application
- Cut out a new Control Panel. Now incorporates a new shape for a more comfortable angle for 4players.
- Cut out new CP layout, kept it simple. 1P and 2P have 6 buttons, 3P and 4P have only 4. There are start buttons for each player, and only one exit button.
- artwork was created for sides, marquee, and CP top. I got a local vinyl printing shop to print out the side art, and had Mamemarquees print out the marquee and cp artwork (yet to arrive)
- Applied side art vinyl to cabinet, looks awesome!
- Applied Chrome t-molding, also looks awesome!
Here's the artwork we're using, drawn up by myself and an co-worker of mine:
Here's how it looks on the cabinet (sorry for the crappy cellphone pictures):
All that's left is the CP top, marquee and CP wiring before it's fully functional! We're looking to get it functional by this weekend, and do the additional finishing touches the following week!
The finishing touches include:
- Single switch powering using a smart-strip hack
- Apply corner protectors
- Apply Cup holders (the guys like to drink stuff while playing, so I figured cup holders would be cool to attach to the backside of the CP - the parts that stick out)
- Remove one coin slot, replace it with just doors. Create service buttons panel within that space so that it can be accessed by opening the "service door".
- Front End menu work needs to be done.
Once it's done, I'll throw some higher-quality pictures of the cabinet on here. Stay tuned!