Cool. I like these mini guys. Did you JDFan or are you jaharr01 using a full size joystick ball (35mm?)
Cool. I like these mini guys. Did you JDFan or are you jaharr01 using a full size joystick ball (35mm?)
Hate when it deletes your text before posting if you hit back :laugh2:I'll look JDfan but I don't remember seeing a switch to change it. I'll look at the product page.Thanks for the heads up. Hey you got any ideas I could use for the marquee?
Anyway was going to say - After building one with a similar screen I found out that it had a switch to use either 4:3 or 16:9 format - and found that the games look better in 4:3 rather than stretched to fit 16:9 - So you might want to test it some if yours has the same switch and build your bezel to cover the black bars on the sides if using 4:3 (I had already built mine before noticing and really like the look of the 4:3 better even though it is a bit smaller it looks better - I might wind up redoing my bezel to get rid of the black bars now that I use 4:3. Here's a screen of the 16:9 setting on mine and as you can see it is a bit stretched out of shape with this setting.
Just something to consider that might save you redoing it later !
(http://forum.arcadecontrols.com/index.php?action=dlattach;topic=136713.0;attach=310771;image)
For example here's a screen of both 4:3 and 16:9 settings (excuse the cheap camera pic - but gets the point across)
:applaud:
Love those new microswitches, are they harder to work with? The board has a 2014 date on it!
Cool :)
I love hacking these things! Does this unit have the "auto shut off" if you don't touch it for 6 minutes? I would love to keep attract mode up all the time!
I'll look JDfan but I don't remember seeing a switch to change it. I'll look at the product page.Thanks for the heads up. Hey you got any ideas I could use for the marquee?
I love hacking these things! Does this unit have the "auto shut off" if you don't touch it for 6 minutes? I would love to keep attract mode up all the time!
Dunno that's probably a better question for JDfan and Chance
Hate when it deletes your text before posting if you hit back :laugh2:
Anyway was going to say - After building one with a similar screen I found out that it had a switch to use either 4:3 or 16:9 format - and found that the games look better in 4:3 rather than stretched to fit 16:9 - So you might want to test it some if yours has the same switch and build your bezel to cover the black bars on the sides if using 4:3 (I had already built mine before noticing and really like the look of the 4:3 better even though it is a bit smaller it looks better - I might wind up redoing my bezel to get rid of the black bars now that I use 4:3. Here's a screen of the 16:9 setting on mine and as you can see it is a bit stretched out of shape with this setting.
Just something to consider that might save you redoing it later !
(http://forum.arcadecontrols.com/index.php?action=dlattach;topic=136713.0;attach=310771;image)
I was looking on the instructions but you have to change the format from the DVD monitor with the cable hooked in and I already gutted that 4 pole cable. I could order one off amazon and try it.
For example here's a screen of both 4:3 and 16:9 settings (excuse the cheap camera pic - but gets the point across)
I love hacking these things! Does this unit have the "auto shut off" if you don't touch it for 6 minutes? I would love to keep attract mode up all the time!
Dunno that's probably a better question for JDfan and Chance
I wouldn't consider these to really have an attract mode at all. Just a menu.
Correct me if I'm wrong, but attract modes in part served as a screen saver to avoid CRT burn in, not just "Oh hey!! Put quarters in me".
Hey you got any ideas I could use for the marquee?
To be honest with you JDfan it looks great but I'm not sure how it would look on that tiny marquee. I was looking for something more simple to put on there. I don't know what I could call it. I wanted something kind of simple but a bit more sophisticated. I don't know it's really hard.Hey you got any ideas I could use for the marquee?
Perhaps something like this :
To be honest with you JDfan it looks great but I'm not sure how it would look on that tiny marquee. I was looking for something more simple to put on there. I don't know what I could call it. I wanted something kind of simple but a bit more sophisticated. I don't know it's really hard.Hey you got any ideas I could use for the marquee?
Perhaps something like this :
You could take the marquee from this box I'm sure ;D
(http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/91HcfyjZfKL._SL1500_.jpg)
Does the game remember the last game picked? Like if you restart the controller, it is always at the same place?
I like the "Pac-Man" marquee on the box it came in, myself...
Allow me to elaborate. On the menu screen, if you select galaga, power off, then back on, will the menu show the cursor at galaga? Or at another game?Does the game remember the last game picked? Like if you restart the controller, it is always at the same place?
Nope it boots to the menu select screen : (6 selections per side and the currently selected game screen in the center.)
(http://forum.arcadecontrols.com/index.php?action=dlattach;topic=136713.0;attach=310779;image)
Allow me to elaborate. On the menu screen, if you select galaga, power off, then back on, will the menu show the cursor at galaga? Or at another game?
What about?
(http://forum.arcadecontrols.com/index.php?action=dlattach;topic=136713.0;attach=322451;image)
I like this one kind of
(http://forum.arcadecontrols.com/index.php?action=dlattach;topic=143327.0;attach=322455;image)
Here is some help from my Homey LT
(http://i.imgur.com/43U6JhM.jpg)
He Can't Quite figure out what to do with the sides or even if it needs anything at all
(http://i.imgur.com/Tpa5oIo.jpg)
You are having fun. :lol And I agree about the black being a good contrast.I don't like the black ball. I got a red one I'll try
Seeing that pic shrunk down made me think there was one of those weird topless Zaccaria joysticks on that panel.
(http://i.imgur.com/1UxaPFA.gif)
(http://www.jammaplus.co.uk/forum/uploads/3438/rtod_may_bc06.jpg)
You can't see the wood grain on the marquee in the picture
(http://forum.arcadecontrols.com/index.php?action=dlattach;topic=136713.0;attach=322916;image)
I can see the wood grain in the lower left of this pic. Maybe it needs to be over-exaggerated then? Or maybe some amber, or something marginally brighter.
You can't see the wood grain on the marquee in the picture
(http://forum.arcadecontrols.com/index.php?action=dlattach;topic=136713.0;attach=322916;image)
Thanks Da old man.Hey I'm from Kentucky too. Where do you live in KY? UK fan?
MY WIFE DOESN'T LIKE ARCADE MACHINES, SHE THINKS I HAVE TOO MANY ALREADY! SHE ESPECIALLY HATES MY PINBALL MACHINE!! SHE THINKS I SHOULD SPEND MORE TIME SHOPPING AND CLEANING THE HOUSE!!! SHE ONLY LIKES IT WHEN I BUILD STUFF FOR THE HOUSE!!!! SHE SAYS ONE MACHINE IS PLENTY, MORE THAN ONE IS STUPID!!!!! SHE SAYS MY MAN ROOM LOOKS EXTREMELY "JANKY"!!!!!! AS YOU CAN TELL I DON"T LISTEN TO HER!!!!!!! SHE SAYS I AM A MORON!!!!!!!!
MY WIFE DOESN'T LIKE ARCADE MACHINES, SHE THINKS I HAVE TOO MANY ALREADY! SHE ESPECIALLY HATES MY PINBALL MACHINE!! SHE THINKS I SHOULD SPEND MORE TIME SHOPPING AND CLEANING THE HOUSE!!! SHE ONLY LIKES IT WHEN I BUILD STUFF FOR THE HOUSE!!!! SHE SAYS ONE MACHINE IS PLENTY, MORE THAN ONE IS STUPID!!!!! SHE SAYS MY MAN ROOM LOOKS EXTREMELY "JANKY"!!!!!! AS YOU CAN TELL I DON"T LISTEN TO HER!!!!!!! SHE SAYS I AM A MORON!!!!!!!!
You know the old saying from the Farmer's Almanac-
"Wife thinks the room looks janky, you'll spend much time doing self spanky"
MY WIFE DOESN'T LIKE ARCADE MACHINES, SHE THINKS I HAVE TOO MANY ALREADY! SHE ESPECIALLY HATES MY PINBALL MACHINE!! SHE THINKS I SHOULD SPEND MORE TIME SHOPPING AND CLEANING THE HOUSE!!! SHE ONLY LIKES IT WHEN I BUILD STUFF FOR THE HOUSE!!!! SHE SAYS ONE MACHINE IS PLENTY, MORE THAN ONE IS STUPID!!!!! SHE SAYS MY MAN ROOM LOOKS EXTREMELY "JANKY"!!!!!! AS YOU CAN TELL I DON"T LISTEN TO HER!!!!!!! SHE SAYS I AM A MORON!!!!!!!!
You know the old saying from the Farmer's Almanac-
"Wife thinks the room looks janky, you'll spend much time doing self spanky"
I thought Confucius said that?
SHE ONLY LIKES IT WHEN I BUILD STUFF FOR THE HOUSE!!!!
Well Vigo I think that loophole has closed. BUT, she said no to building a NEW arcade. Nothing about REBUILDING an older one. Honestly I pretty much do what I want to do anyway,whether she likes it or not. She just knows there is not room for many more, until I get a wild hair and add on again. I have a bunch of stuff I promised her I would do.SHE ONLY LIKES IT WHEN I BUILD STUFF FOR THE HOUSE!!!!
Wait a minute.....wait a minute....wait a minute. Isn't building an arcade cabinet technically "building stuff for the house?" I think you have a loophole to exploit. ;D
This came out really nice.Thanks I think so too for a relatively low $ project
I love this build, but personaly the screen sits a little high up on the bezel.
Jay, not sure if you saw my updates to my Yellow Feaver build, but inside of those DVDS players is quite basic. If you have even a simple comfort level with a soldering iron it wouldn't take much for you to strip down that player and solder things directly to eachother. I'd still go for a bezel sticker to give you that filled in effect.
Might help modify the screen placement as well. I love this build, but personally the screen sits a little high up on the bezel.
MY WIFE DOESN'T LIKE ARCADE MACHINES, SHE THINKS I HAVE TOO MANY ALREADY! SHE ESPECIALLY HATES MY PINBALL MACHINE!! SHE THINKS I SHOULD SPEND MORE TIME SHOPPING AND CLEANING THE HOUSE!!! SHE ONLY LIKES IT WHEN I BUILD STUFF FOR THE HOUSE!!!! SHE SAYS ONE MACHINE IS PLENTY, MORE THAN ONE IS STUPID!!!!! SHE SAYS MY MAN ROOM LOOKS EXTREMELY "JANKY"!!!!!! AS YOU CAN TELL I DON"T LISTEN TO HER!!!!!!! SHE SAYS I AM A MORON!!!!!!!!
I'm gonna bring " my Woody" home and see if I can fix it.You know though that little thing is a conversation starter. I had a hot --I'm attempting to get by the auto-censor and should be beaten after I re-read the rules-- drug rep in high heels leaning over my desk playing pacman for 10 minutes.So my "woody" led to me having one. It's the little things in life that make it enjoyable.
Jay
Maybe im missing something, but is it not possible to lower that screen a bit?
That LT patented galaga bezel looks great, but I still think the screen is to high.
Ok as far as playability it is not too high I will put the bezel on there and see if it looks better. If not I can lower the screen it will be a pain in the --I'm attempting to get by the auto-censor and should be beaten after I re-read the rules-- to lower that screen though because of the way it's put together. It can be done, is it worth it ?
I don't want to disappoint Yotsuya. Seriously, he is right though.