Author Topic: YAAM - Yet Another Arcade Machine, is now Xmas Arcade (Read 29859 times)

emphatic · « **Reply #120 on:** December 01, 2009, 07:09:31 am »

The Christmas graphics are awesome!

You should decorate it further with some nice bling for your party.

jeef · « **Reply #121 on:** December 01, 2009, 02:33:58 pm »

@emphatic I'll take more photos once the tinsel is in place - can't afford t-molding yet

Ryglore · « **Reply #122 on:** December 01, 2009, 02:36:11 pm »

Quote from: jeef on December 01, 2009, 02:33:58 pm

@emphatic I'll take more photos once the tinsel is in place - can't afford t-molding yet

haha awesome. I can't wait to see this.... perhaps toss on a bow for good measure?

jeef · « **Reply #123 on:** December 01, 2009, 02:37:37 pm »

@Ryglore Mistletoe perhaps?

Gatsu · « **Reply #124 on:** December 01, 2009, 04:57:58 pm »

rig the x-mas lights to a LEDWiz pack and have them flicker with the music of the game. lol.

DCsegaDH · « **Reply #125 on:** December 01, 2009, 06:52:38 pm »

I have the same hinges for my control panel too. Nice work, its coming together nicely

jeef · « **Reply #126 on:** December 01, 2009, 07:31:13 pm »

@Gatsu I don't have a LEDWiz, but the xmas lights are a neat idea

@DCsegaDH Yeah, they were the only (cupboard) hinges I could find that would open like that. All others would cause a conflict with the box part.

Franco B · « **Reply #127 on:** December 02, 2009, 03:23:40 am »

Loving this build, great job on everything!

Great idea for the temp xmas artwork

jeef · « **Reply #128 on:** December 02, 2009, 03:00:24 pm »

@Franco B Cheers man

I ran into a show-stopper the other night: I have two spare motherboards (complete with cpu/ram) of differing age. One has AGP but no SATA, and the other has SATA but no AGP (only PCI-E). I wonder if you can see where this is going? I have one spare SATA drive, and my only s-video option (this is an old CRT TV remember) is an old AGP video card.

I was thinking of finding a cheap pci-e video card which is not hard, but I need it now, so that it can be ready for this weekend. My local electronics store didn't have any, but for not much more I found this neat little "PC to TV Converter". It's powered via USB, has a VGA in and s-video out. Perfect! So I got that hooked up last night and it works a treat!

So all I need to do now is finish wiring up the CP and setup MAME+frontend.

Will take some more photos tonight.

Ryglore · « **Reply #129 on:** December 02, 2009, 03:11:49 pm »

Quote from: jeef on December 02, 2009, 03:00:24 pm

My local electronics store didn't have any, but for not much more I found this neat little "PC to TV Converter". It's powered via USB, has a VGA in and s-video out. Perfect! So I got that hooked up last night and it works a treat!

Oh sweet, I may need to look into something like that when it comes time to do a project I have in mind...

jeef · « **Reply #130 on:** December 02, 2009, 03:21:58 pm »

@Ryglore Yeah, although it probably costs a touch more than what you could find a pci/pci-e/agp video card that has s-video on it, but I was kinda desperate. But it works really well, resolutions of 800x600, 1024x768 and 1280x1024 in and (in my case) PAL out.

Ryglore · « **Reply #131 on:** December 02, 2009, 04:35:04 pm »

Actually I'd prolly end up going with this

http://www.amazon.com/StarTech-HD15CPNTMF-Component-Breakout-Adapter/dp/B00213KFHW

For what I'd be doing, the RCA outputs would be more "authentic".

jeef · « **Reply #132 on:** December 02, 2009, 04:45:28 pm »

@Ryglore Just remember that that is Component, not composite out. Composite is crap, s-video is a pretty authentic look, Component can do up to 720p I believe. Also, I'm not 100% sure, but even though the cable exists, your video card might not output Component. Eg, this: http://www.gainbery.com/Product/Adaptor/vga%20to%20rca.jpg Will only work on specific video cards.

jeef · « **Reply #133 on:** December 03, 2009, 05:32:44 am »

It's now playable!

I still need a bit of work setting up other emulators etc, but MAME was top priority.

Here's the completed wiring:

And here's a shameful pic inside:

I'll tidy that up, have a friend of mine who will help me make a power switch to turn everything on/off. Just going to pimp his site while I'm at it: http://pacificlights.co.nz/en/2009/telecontrol
Web controlled xmas lights!

Gamester · « **Reply #134 on:** December 04, 2009, 03:03:01 pm »

Quote from: jeef on December 01, 2009, 07:31:13 pm

Yeah, they were the only (cupboard) hinges I could find that would open like that. All others would cause a conflict with the box part.

Looking good Jeef!

I was hoping you could provide the specs on those hinges? (my apologies if it's in your thread somewhere and I missed it). I have the same situation with the front overhang on mine. To this point I've just had it mounted with velcro, but hinges would be much nicer for working inside there!

jeef · « **Reply #135 on:** December 04, 2009, 04:10:27 pm »

@Gamester After looking for the hinge online I just realised that I did resort to reversing the hinge. The CP box is the "cupboard door". So I'm using an Inset Hinge, in reverse.

Imagine this diagram:
http://brassware.images.snowvalley.com/content/html/images/InsetBlumHingeDiagram.jpg

Where "door" is the front side of the CP box and "Carcass" is the CP lid. Was missions routing out the hole for the hinge in the already assembled box though.

DaOld Man · « **Reply #136 on:** December 04, 2009, 04:13:21 pm »

Great job jeef!!

jeef · « **Reply #137 on:** December 04, 2009, 04:21:31 pm »

@DaOld Man Cheers, it gets tested tonight at our xmas party

jeef · « **Reply #138 on:** December 08, 2009, 02:04:24 am »

Just a quick shot of it in action at the weekend

ammitz · « **Reply #139 on:** December 08, 2009, 02:58:52 am »

Nice T-mold

jeef · « **Reply #140 on:** December 08, 2009, 03:19:17 am »

@ammitz

was all I could afford for now.

Kman-Sweden · « **Reply #141 on:** December 08, 2009, 06:49:56 am »

Forget the cab. Look at that Santa-dragon on the wall!!!

ammitz · « **Reply #142 on:** December 08, 2009, 07:34:08 am »

Quote from: jeef on December 08, 2009, 03:19:17 am

@ammitz was all I could afford for now.

I think it looks great

Ryglore · « **Reply #143 on:** December 08, 2009, 08:37:35 am »

Agreed, that Tinsel t-molding is classic!

jeef · « **Reply #144 on:** December 08, 2009, 02:31:04 pm »

@Kman-Sweden Haha, yeah, my partners hippie dragon. You burn incense or similar inside it and smoke comes out his nostrils

@ammitz, @Ryglore

Will see how I go for time over the next week and hopefully get some updates on the artwork up.

ammitz · « **Reply #145 on:** December 08, 2009, 04:47:20 pm »

You shouldn't change the artwork untill after christmass, perhaps for your New Years party?

jeef · « **Reply #146 on:** December 08, 2009, 05:25:10 pm »

@ammitz Don't worry, it will be a couple of months at least before the artwork is finished, let alone am able to afford to print it. $280nzd per side, $200usd at the current exchange rate.

Silas (son of Silas) · « **Reply #147 on:** January 16, 2010, 04:13:56 pm »

Quote from: jeef on November 23, 2009, 01:46:09 am

And a close up of the Admin Panel. You can see the smoked acrylic does a good job of hiding the bezel and everything that was visible behind the bezel:

How smoked is smoked? I don't suppose you have a photo of the acrylic prior to install so I can get an idea of how dark the tint is please?

jeef · « **Reply #148 on:** January 16, 2010, 10:25:31 pm »

Silas,
I had a look and can't find any pre-installation photos. I remember when I got it it seemed quite dark, but the screen image comes through fine. Probably a bit like this: http://i18.ebayimg.com/05/i/001/1f/e9/05e2_3.JPG

Silas (son of Silas) · « **Reply #149 on:** January 17, 2010, 06:20:08 am »

Thanks for that link. That's a lot lighter that I thought it would be.

jeef · « **Reply #150 on:** January 17, 2010, 02:24:23 pm »

yeah, it probably is, maybe where two of them overlap

Silas (son of Silas) · « **Reply #151 on:** January 17, 2010, 04:30:51 pm »

How do these two compare with the one you used?

jeef · « **Reply #152 on:** January 17, 2010, 04:32:44 pm »

Ah, those are better pictures. I tried to find a pic last night but couldn't find anything decent. The second one, the darker one is quite close.

Silas (son of Silas) · « **Reply #153 on:** January 17, 2010, 05:07:41 pm »

Cool... Thanks for that.

I am considering what to buy, but don't want to go too dark in case I can't see the screen clearly enough, but at the same time I want to go dark enough that it obscures everything behind it.

The place I'm buying from sells 3mm and 5mm, may I ask what thickness you used?

jeef · « **Reply #154 on:** January 17, 2010, 05:11:47 pm »

It's dark, but if you crank the screen brightness up a little it comes through fine in my opinion. I think I got all of it in 3mm. I went acrylic for the tinted screen, clear acrylic for the marquee and I actually went polycarbonate for the CP as it required some curved routing etc.

Hopefully that is of some help

Ryglore · « **Reply #155 on:** January 19, 2010, 09:44:13 am »

My tinting is about the darkness of the second pic as well. and I don't have any issues with darkness. But then again I have the SHMUP set up in a side room of the new house and I keep the overhead light turned off while I play to keep the glare down as well as keep the "aesthetics" of the arcade feel.


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