Not much progress-wise this week. I think I may have burned myself out a little with the pace I had been working, so I took a little break. But some things have happened this week regardless. I started planning of my MaLa layout, but I've not done any Photoshop/ Illustrator work yet. Mostly playing with the Layout editor and seeing what does what.
Sunday I ordered the rest of my T-Molding (40ft of Deep Space Blue, 6 ft of Black, 2 Black buttons for the hidden admin keys and a Key-Wiz 40 w/ screw terminals. Also I have my wire and am working on how I want to wire everything as neatly as possible. The CP top pops off the Cab, so I may mount the Key-Wiz and Opti-wiz to the bottom side of the CP. Then I'll run Grounds to junction blocks, also on the bottom side of the CP. This would make the only wires running from the CP stand the coin mechs and the 5v and ground to the power supply. This should give me the cleanest possible wiring I can think of.
Taking severedhed's suggestion, I'll be wiring P1's 5 and 6 buttons to the opti-wiz for mouse buttons. I looked into hacking a microswitch to the coin mechs, but decided against it. I think, I'll hide a Shazaam function so I can coin up. But my main goal is to get the mechs accepting tokens....
does anyone know if you have to tweak Happ $.25 coin mechs to accept Arcade Replay BOYAC tokens? I've been slowly filling screw holes the last couple days too. Making sure the sides are as flush and smooth as possible. Since the artwork is going to betaped and painted, I need to have as nice a surface as possible to tape to and if it takes a boat load of wood putty, so be it.
It looks like the only day I'll be working on the cab this weekend is Sunday. Which will prolly be a primer and sanding day if anything. Fun fun. But while I am doing that I can continue setting up the PC before I gut it and mount it in the cab. That way it's set to go after it's installed and I won't need to modify anything once it's in place... I grow tired of looking at windows sideways, haha.
I'm also going through my games list and deciding what I want to keep on the cab and what to pitch. I've got a decent list of games so far, mostly shoot em ups, of course. I'll write up a list of games once I've gotten it all decided.