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The Royal Flush Arcade
spOOf:
I found 5/8 MDF and will pick it up this week. If my bits come in the mail, I should be doing lots of wood work this weekend. If not, I'll find something to do!
The quick design I did in Photoshop for the splash screen:
Kman-Sweden:
About those tamperproof screws...
Before I found a bit to open SNES cartridges I melted the tip of a plastic pen and while it was warm and soft I just pressed it down against the screw and when it cooled I had a perfect imprint and if opened the cartridges nicely.
spOOf:
--- Quote from: Kman_Sweden on August 05, 2009, 03:36:33 am ---About those tamperproof screws...
Before I found a bit to open SNES cartridges I melted the tip of a plastic pen and while it was warm and soft I just pressed it down against the screw and when it cooled I had a perfect imprint and if opened the cartridges nicely.
--- End quote ---
Cool idea! Not sure if that would've worked for me or not. 2 of mine were extremely tight and in an awkward spot. It took me awhile to get them to turn.
Thanks for the tip.
spOOf:
This is the layout I'm thinking of using:
The top layer, in order, is plyr 1 start, plyr 1 coin, spinner ........... pause, plyr 2 start, plyr 2 coin, exit
Things look off for some reason in the spacing for the joys/buttons/trackball. I can't figure out why. I've gone over the math several times. Maybe it's just an optical illusion or something. Here's what I did:
The panel is 38.5"w x 15"h. The bottom of the trackball and the bottom of the lowest button for each player is exactly 6 inches from the bottom of the panel edge (for hand/arm support, as well as allowing steering wheel clamp on). The center of the player 1 joy is 4.5" from left edge. The last player 2 button is 4.5" from right edge. From joy to button on both players equals 6.75". So, from edge to last plyr 1 button is 11.25. And from edge to player 2 joy is 11.25. That means it's 8 inches from the middle of last plyr 1 button to center of trackball and 8 inches from middle of plyr 2 joy to center of trackball.
Everything should be perfectly aligned and centered. But it looks off, doesn't it? I think it's just because the joystick throws it off.
Thoughts?
spOOf:
Look at the attached version for a better idea of what I mean. Maybe it's just the extra lines around the joy that makes it looks smaller?
Anyway, what do you guys think of this layout?