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Title: FINISHED MY PACMAN - CHECK IT OUT! :)
Post by: pac-fan4life on May 20, 2004, 10:03:38 pm

Wow, I finally finished my first cabinet (well me and some help from a few good friends - took a lot longer than I thought it would too and I feel so great to have gotten it done) so I figured I would post it here and see what the community thought. This was the first thing I've ever really built (except a really crappy sign once) so go easy on it. If anyone want's anyhelp on putting a pacman together for themselves (like measurements etc.) let me know, I learned a lot along the way. Basically the machine is constructed out of 3/4 mdf wood (wooden control panel instead of metal, my only deviance from the original arcade design) all the way around with a 17 inch monitor (free, people seem to just give these away) a 200 mhz pentium 1 running mame and glaunch as the front end. I also added a couple games to it like galaga and frogger just for fun. :) My girlfriend, painted the sideart (it's not quite done yet, but I think it look's good ;). The joystick is a happs hacked into a sidewinder. total cost, $215.00 roughly. Give me your thoughts and if anyone else out there has made a pacman replica i would love to see pictures!

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Post by: Apollo on May 20, 2004, 10:21:18 pm

Very nice effort ( project announcements next time please ).

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Post by: Sasquatch! on May 20, 2004, 10:26:34 pm

Wow, the sideart is handpainted?  Impressive!

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Post by: Minwah on May 21, 2004, 05:08:04 am

Excellent, I like to see classics replicated, and yours looks great :)

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Post by: REBIRTH on May 21, 2004, 06:11:41 am

Great job, excellent painting!

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Post by: RetroJames on May 21, 2004, 07:12:58 am

I would like to see some more pics.  What I can see looks great!

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Post by: zaphod on May 21, 2004, 08:41:11 am

Looks fantastic!  Great work.

However, please, get us some more pics.

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Post by: BldnACab on May 21, 2004, 08:58:36 am

Great job.

The more I see these style cabinets, the more I like them.

Congrats, and the hand painted artwork looks geat.

BldnACab

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Post by: MameMe on May 21, 2004, 09:53:15 am

Love it!  Amazing job with only $215 into it...Kudos!

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Post by: greywolf22 on May 22, 2004, 01:23:52 am

Amazing the talent some of you people have...awesome looking cab and the hand painted side art is top notch  :)  Great job

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Post by: pac-fan4life on May 22, 2004, 02:23:15 am

Here's a better picture of the sideart. It's not quite done as you can see because i'm still messing some red in the mouth of the ghost and in pacman's eyes. Also there's some color missing in the first letters of Pac-man but it's getting closer. To paint it I made a transparency (like the ones they use in school) of the pac man side art and then I displayed it onto the machine with an overhead projector. Than my girlfriend painted it on (which she wasn't very happy to do because it took a whole day... good thing she loves me mwahahaha). I think it turned out pretty well and a little more original than a printed sticker. I just couldn't afford the sticker. Also, for printing I found something a lot more affordable than kinko's. Go to a college near you (usually a larger state school) and go to their art department with a disk of the images you want and have them print them for you. At my school they can print poster size images easily on laser color printer and laminate paper for much cheaper than kinkos. Find a student for a discount. To print the sideart for pacman full size on laminate paper it would have cost 40.00 a side. Also, any suggestions on how to protect my control panel graphic? Thanks!

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Post by: danny_galaga on May 28, 2004, 11:48:28 pm

that looks great! as we say in Oz 'just like a bought one!'.
surely not your first?

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Post by: Nefesis on June 06, 2004, 07:14:23 pm

any dimensions?

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Post by: mr.Curmudgeon on June 06, 2004, 11:17:47 pm

Damn man, that's super-slick!

She hand-painted the sideart? You need to marry that girl!

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Post by: MameMaster! on June 10, 2004, 04:36:46 pm

That looks fantastic!...I agree with an earlier post. You found a girl that is that talented AND willing to paint the sides of your ARCADE CAB...dude...you HAVE TO MARRY HER. NOW!!!

Enjoy you cool lookin' cab.

MameMaster!  8)

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Post by: Nefesis on June 10, 2004, 10:51:40 pm

did the original pacman use a ball-top joystick? what make and model is yours?

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Post by: Yander on June 11, 2004, 07:58:36 pm

I love to see mame cabinets that look like real cabs. Looks incredible especially the sideart

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Post by: pac-fan4life on June 11, 2004, 10:01:15 pm

Thanks guys I really appreciate the compliments. Nefesis, the original pac-man used a red ball top joy-stick which you can buy from happs. I bought the one from a pacman/galaga reissue so mine isn

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Post by: boyowilkins on June 12, 2004, 04:30:39 pm

Great cab m8, now to persuade the misses to tale a college painting course....

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Post by: SirPoonga on June 14, 2004, 12:25:42 am

Cool, it;s nice to see someone paint the aideart on instead of using the official repo sideart at www.twobits.com.  It's more authentic as pacman was painted on.

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Post by: HagHore on June 14, 2004, 07:42:19 am

Quote from: pac-fan4life on May 22, 2004, 02:23:15 am

Also, any suggestions on how to protect my control panel graphic? Thanks!

Self-Adhesive Clear Laminate will help protect your cpo.  Get one that is fairly thick so it will hold up to wear.  Or use some clear lexan.

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Post by: OSCAR on June 14, 2004, 10:23:28 pm

Looks great!!  I really like seeing someone go through the effort to paint on the sideart, and like SirP said, it looks very authentic.  Although the later production runs of Ms. Pac had vinyl sideart, the painted ones just look better.

I recently picked up a Ms. Pac upright that someone covered the sides with green laminate.  I'm gonna remove the laminate and try to repaint the sides on mine, too, although I doubt I have the patience or talent for it...  Again, fantastic work!