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First MAME Cab - Spider-Man (Updated: August 13, 2010)

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DillonFoulds:
Haven't had much for updates to this project in a while, but with just cause!!! I picked up a cocktail cabinet to do some work on, and recently picked up my first pinball machine! (1978 Mata Hari - 50 pics)



Ordered all new buttons and joysticks, and a nice shiny new I-PAC4 from Divemaster!!

Looking forwards to picking up the last of the supplies this weekend, to redo my control panel!

Then after that, it's repainting the cabinet, maybe pick out some artwork, and re-do the t-molding, and then I dare say I'll be finished!

:D

DillonFoulds:
Finally had an afternoon to putz around with photoshop to draft up some control panel layouts


Over all, the board measures 14"x37". The black corners are where I'm cutting off corners.
The black outline inset in the board will be where the box that the board sits on (Basically, I have to work within that box!)
The layouts are straight from Slag-coin, I put rough measurements in for the joystick mounting plates, so i have a full idea of how much room I need to factor in (and are color co-ordinated, but i may swap red and blue?).
The Orange IPAC4 is where I'm proposing to mount the Ipac (duh!).
The purple "button" is actually where I'll be mounting a spinner. The purple rectangle is perfect measurement to the mounting plate of my spinner.
The start buttons run across the top, with a single button in the middle for "Exit" (Combo buttons were initally used, but I think an Exit button is just so much more efficient for noobs).

Thoughts or suggestions? I'm planning on printing up and doing a rough cut on some 5/8" scrap MDF, so don't worry about me getting the "feel" for the panel right away... I will! :D

DillonFoulds:
UPDATE!! UPDATE!! UPDATE!! UPDATE!! UPDATE!!


A couple pics of the new control panel wiring!

That leaves me with:
- Cut control panel Plexiglass
- Repaint
- Artwork (still drawing a blank here... :()
- T-molding

So it's functional and complete at this point. Now I really just need to beautify the whole thing.
I was gonna consider blowing up some pixelated artwork for the sides, but I don't think that's quite what I want. I can't seem to get just that right effect in photoshop.

I may play around a bit more, but try for a themed collage. Something like Mario jumping up to hit a coin block, and put a light blue collage like one of the levels maybe?

Like I said, still unsure about the artwork. I think I want to go with a theme centralized on mario, even if he's not 100% arcade (sorry in advance to any purists that read this).

Rick:

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OMG, somebody feed the dog!  (Cute!)

 ;D

DillonFoulds:
Funny you should mention that. He likes to poke his head into any picture he can....








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