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Title: Donkey Kong Midway Cabinet
Post by: digitalarcade on December 26, 2005, 08:37:58 pm
Some very dusty pics of the cabinet - the flash of the camera has picked up every dust particle!!. The photos do not do the cab justice.

2-player controls all wired and working. The control panel is detatchable.

To do:

1) Second control panel with Trackball and buttons
2) Get the coin door to work
3) Clean up the cab

...all by Friday  ;)


(http://www.digitalarcade.co.uk/cratermass/DSC05120001.jpg)

(http://www.digitalarcade.co.uk/cratermass/DSC05118001.jpg)

(http://www.digitalarcade.co.uk/cratermass/DSC05117001.jpg)

(http://www.digitalarcade.co.uk/cratermass/DSC05115001.jpg)


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Title: Re: Donkey Kong Midway Cabinet
Post by: dmsuchy on December 26, 2005, 08:46:10 pm
Very cool, dig the chrome Tmolding.
Title: Re: Donkey Kong Midway Cabinet
Post by: digitalarcade on December 30, 2005, 02:18:39 pm
Cabinet finished.

More pics can be seen on my website here : http://www.digitalarcade.co.uk/cratermass_Cab.htm

I did detachable controls in the end which worked out real well. Playing Star Wars on the trackball with the lights dimmed low was truly a nostalgic moment.

(http://www.digitalarcade.co.uk/cratermasscab/DSC05129001.jpg)

(http://www.digitalarcade.co.uk/cratermasscab/DSC05125001.jpg)
Title: Re: Donkey Kong Midway Cabinet
Post by: TurboC-- on December 30, 2005, 03:17:43 pm
Hmm, Donkey Kong is vertical though.  No joy controls on either end?  I think the great advantage of Cocktail cabs (and one reason I ALMOST wish I had done one) is you can have the standard controls on either end, and then rig a 3rd like yours on the side, enabling basically all orientations of games.  Where to put a trackball/spinner may be an issue, but I suppose if you forego 2-player flipping, you could make one end have joy, the other trackball/spinner, and then both on the side. 

Looks very nice though.
Title: Re: Donkey Kong Midway Cabinet
Post by: digitalarcade on December 30, 2005, 04:44:57 pm
Made to order - this is what the chap wanted