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"The Griffin" - Finished August 28, 2010!
SephYuyX:
Yeah.. it is starting to drive me nuts already, any suggestions on fixing it?
Chipping away the furring isnt really an option for a few reasons.. but I can always move lighting around. With GroovyGamerGear's new LINX LED light, it should be pretty easy. I was originally thinking of arranging them in a U or V shape, hoping that may work, but I could Just take one of the sections on each side and face it in.. I dunno.
Suggestions are welcome.
SephYuyX:
Minor addition today. So how to fix the shadow issue on the marquee? Well, A hammer and a chisel, thats how. I didnt really want to take out the support and replace them with L brackets, it would have caused more damage trying to get the things out, so I opted for this route.
It looks ugly, but gets the job done. Some screw exposure there, but the thing is also glued down tight as well, it's not going anywhere (or so I say now).
Pretty good I think, could make it look a bit better.. but not worth the trouble when it's barely this noticable now.
I also spent some time getting down to the software side of things. Ive been customizing the front end which makes all the emulators and games run seemlessly, and also getting proper working emulators for the games I have.
At the moment I have every game ever made for: Atari 2600, Atari 5200, Atari 7800, Atari 400/800/800XL, Atari Jaguar, Atari Lynx, Atari ST, ColecoVision, MAME, Mattel Intellivision, MSX, MSX2, NEC Turbo-Grafx-16 / NEC PC Engine, Nintendo Entertainment System, Nintendo Super NES, Nintendo 64, Nintendo Gameboy, Nintendo Gameboy Color, Nintendo Gameboy Advance, Sega Genesis, Sega 32X, Sega Game Gear, Sega Master System, and SNK Neo-Geo.
So those are out of the way. Ill also be getting Virtual Boy, Vectex, and Nintendo DS, as well as some pinball games.
What's left is 3D0, CD-i, TG-CD, Sega CD, Dreamcast, PS1, GameCube, Xbox, and PSP. However with these I wont be getting all the games. Their file sizes range roughly from 300~700mb+ and ive about 60gb left to spare, and dont really feel like getting another hdarddrive yet, even though theyre dirt cheap. I really dont want all those games anyway, as there are only about ~10 real good ones per each anyway.
By the way, for those who are still wondering, or asking me where I got the graphics from, who did them, etc.
I got the background off of google, it is a 3000x50000 pixel 16-century japanese handscroll entitled Hyakki Yakō ひゃっきやこのず 百鬼夜行図 by Tosa Mitsuoki. It roughly means "Night Parade of One Hundred Demons".
This scroll was horrid to work worth, very weathed, differential marks everywhere, etc, if I didnt know how to use PhotoShop (and the new content aware tool) I probably wouldnt have even bother trying to work with it. It looks completly different from the original now.
As far as the griffin goes, it's done by a German vector artist named Denis Zorin, whos only given it to about 10 other people, he was also nice enough to add the placard as well, so that I could have it in some pieces, and not in others. While it's not the best depiction of a griffin, I think it looks quite good.
So, with these two images in hand, I took about a week or so in photoshop and had at it. Made lots of different things, but finally ended up with the images you see. The fonts were found randomly on the web. So no, I didnt pay someone to make these for me, I did all the work (yes, moving and minipulating can be very hard), and then sent them to be printed out.
ETA on Completion? Cabinet: End of week. Software: End of next. Though ill be on vaction for the next few days here, I think it'll get done. Either way, I will be finished by the end of the month no problem.
dawolv:
Hey Seph - I am considering those speakers for my cab...how do you like them? Would you have gone with something else? Have you taken apart the "Puck" or did you mount that somewhere?
I am on the fence between those Logictechs and the Altec Lansing VS2521's
SephYuyX:
Cant say for sure yet, I plugged them in on my main PC to test them out initially and they sound fine. I hooked them up to my mame machine recently too, to see how my intro vid sounds on them, and again they sounded decent. Obiviously at only 10$ they arent the best.. but Ihavent really noticed anything bad about them, maybe some bad quaility if you turn them up all the way.
As far as the volume control knob thingy, I plan on just double side taping it to the back side of my cab, but I havent yet, so I may change it to somewhere else, maybe run it under in to my cp base.
SephYuyX:
Got the TMolding in today, now I can finally put the side art on. Three 20ft coils, 3/4" thick, Black leather.
Close up of the 'leather'. It just has little grooves in it really, but better than plain. I was wavering between gray and this, and just decided to go with this.
Here is my CP all finished now since I have the tmolding on.
Close up of the P1 side
Close up of the P2 side.
Annnnnnd tada, it went on flawlessly, no bubbles, nothing. It looks great. I made it so it would be oversized, so I just lined everything up to look good, and then trimmed off the sides leaving a bit of overhang that I folded over and put the TMolding overtop.
Closer shot. The Tmolding was a bit of a pain to get on, but mstly the bottom part, but it looks very nice.