Finished my arcade machine today! yay... pics

[chrisnack]

Finished putting my arcade machine back together today after painting it the past 2 weeks.  I built it from scratch using the Ultimate Arcade II plans... i did all the woodwork and cutting myself and the edges are t-molded.

I intend to paint artwork on the side, but that will come later...

I'm running Maximus Arcade for my front end (it's sitting in the main screen in the pics)

I'm just happy to have it painted and looking sexy   Was sitting unfinished for awhile.

[shardian]

All that hard work...and then you put an Xarcade stick in it. Don't sell yourself short like that!

Oh, and that is an arcade machine - not an arcade. I opened this link fully expecting to see a room full of machines. That is what an arcade is.

Welcome to the forums either way. May knowledge fall on you like rain. 

[Flake]

Looks good dude but dont kid yourself - no one is ever "done".  I add stuff to mine all the time, different emulators, features like cabvol, sideart in your case.  My guess is that at some point you'll build or have built a different control panel.  I noticed you installed some cupholders - nice.  I'm not sure why it took me so long to put them on mine.  Reaching down the floor to pick up my beer sucked.

Are those Act Lab guns?  Do you like them?

Again, looks nice.  Enjoy the games.  

[Ginsu Victim]

Oh, and that is an arcade machine - not an arcade. I opened this link fully expecting to see a room full of machines. That is what an arcade is.

Yeah, where's the arcade?!? That's what I came in to see.

What do I find? An X-arcade. Yuck.

Other than that, it looks nice.

[chrisnack]

yeah the x-arcade will get replaced.  I already replaced the joysticks with magsticks.  I will build a 4-player panel later this year.  The extra buttons are controlled by an ipac, not the x-arcade.  I will most likely buy another ipac and then rebuild the panel for a 4-player, that's the plan anyways...

And yes, never done done  

I have a dartboard and pinball machine, i'll post pics of that as well i suppose, since that is also in that "room"

[chrisnack]

Here are the other "machines" in that room...

1978 gottlieb sinbad i refinished and a Arachnid Top Gun Challenge, i also refinished.

[shardian]

Now THAT'S what I'm talkin' about!

Your Sinbad backglass looks mint. I've been bitten by the system1 bug myself. You can't help but like them once you have them. 

[chrisnack]

Other specs.

TV is an 27" Toshiba 27A60 with power return (yay)
p4 3.0 with 2bg of ram PC that i built from spare parts
Smartstrip powering the cabinet
2.1 speaker system (gotta have the sub!)

+++Maximus Arcade Front-end+++
MAME .130 romset
NES
SNES
Atari 2600
Atari 5200
Atari Jaguar
Atari Lynx
Sega Genesis
Sega Gamegear
Sega Master System
Model 2 emulator loading Model 2 games
House of Dead 3 and House of the Dead 2 launchable from Maximus Arcade
Daphne games

Dual Light-guns are Guncon2 guns, work perfect for me in all the shooting games, i know alot of people have trouble with these, but they worked great for me after i figured them out.  Originally had official Namco guns but couldn't get them to track together correctly, so switched to generic ones and have been golden since.

I built a power circuit for the gun recoil that is powered of the PC's, so the guns vibrate when you shoot, which is pretty cool, everyone seems to like that feature on the guns.

[chrisnack]

Now THAT'S what I'm talkin' about!

Your Sinbad backglass looks mint. I've been bitten by the system1 bug myself. You can't help but like them once you have them. 

Yup, the backglass is near perfect, playfield is in awesome shape as well.  I have  few divits in some of the light inserts so i need to pop out some of the inserts and fix that, otherwise i went through and redid all the plastics and resoldered a ton of bad connections.  Everything works great now.

I did replace the original system 1 boards with a pi-1x4 board, so no more seperate power supply, lamp driver and control board.  It's all one board now and it's more programmable and reliable.  I had trouble with components going out every so often on the S1 boards, so i dropped the $400 on the P1-1x4 and have never looked bad.  I can play the game in original mode, or i have it tweaked, so it's free play and you can add up your free balls.  My biggest peave with the S1 board gameplay was that you couldn't "stack" free balls.

[Donkey_Kong]

It's the nicest looking machine I've seen with an Xarcade attached.

[jasonbar]

Nice work.  At first glance, I got excited when I saw your first pic & thought you'd mounted a big ol' gun on the panel because you were so hardcore about Operation Wolf & T2 & such.  Nope, just your power drill on the windowsill.  Psyche!   

What are your gun holsters?  They look nice.

-Jason

[chrisnack]

Nice work.  At first glance, I got excited when I saw your first pic & thought you'd mounted a big ol' gun on the panel because you were so hardcore about Operation Wolf & T2 & such.  Nope, just your power drill on the windowsill.  Psyche!  

What are your gun holsters?  They look nice.

-Jason

yeah i couldn't find any that i liked.. so i bought nylon strap from the local hardware store and grommets to mount them... just a simple loop of strap is all it is... works great and looks good and cost me $4

[chrisnack]

here some pictures without the daylight..

pinball machines look much better at night!

[pinballwizard79]

I call my machine an "arcade" too.

Thats because I know more "regular" people as opposed to the forum folks here who have Starwars marquees in their dining room. Not that there is anything wrong with that, god knows that's cooler than the damn clock in my diningroom.

Anyway the thing looks sweet, even if you had built the control panel yourself you would eventually rebuild it again anyway so no loss there (one day I will rebuild mine).

Kudos on the darts & pinball too.......

[Ummon]

I knew he meant a cab, I guess because I'm used to the abuse of the word now.  (Heheheh.)  Looks pro, man.  And indeed that backglass looks fine. Doubly so in the proper light.

[shardian]

The Pi-1 makes a sys. 1 a whole new game. I have it in mine too.

[swamprat96]

Hey chrisnack-are both guns working in model 2 emulator? If so could you share how you did it?

[chrisnack]

Pinball machines are for sale, just in case someone was interested, see details in the B/S/T forum.

[Silas (son of Silas)]

...I know more "regular" people as opposed to the forum folks here who have Starwars marquees in their dining room.

I thought we were the "regular" people and the others without arcade stuff everywhere were the oddballs?  

[nickynooch]

Good looking cab! As everyone else said, the xarcade sticks bring it down a notch, but still cool. It'd be awesome to see it in action!