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Title: Scorps Bartop / 2 Players / 18 Buttons - wip
Post by: scorp.ius on January 30, 2007, 11:50:24 am

Hi!

A friend of mine and I am working on this since 08/2006.

I wanted to have a little Bartop (OK, actually it is not little  :laugh2: ) with a two Player CP with 6 Buttons (for Street Fighter II and such)

There is a 17" CRT inside and a 3000 Sempron with 512 MB Ram.
It will run Win XP and as the Frontend I will use a registered version of GameEx.
A 40GB HDD should do it :). Perhaps i will expand this in the future.

Title: Re: my 2 Player Bartop - wip
Post by: javeryh on January 30, 2007, 12:12:28 pm

Looking good!  Any plans for artwork or a color scheme yet?

Title: Re: my 2 Player Bartop - wip
Post by: scorp.ius on January 30, 2007, 12:15:56 pm

not in detail :)

i perhaps want a Donkey Kong Jr. Sideart and a marquee that looks alike but not the original DK Jr. Marquee

the cab is more complete than on the pictures by the way, but i cant get my hands on the fotos i have made with my cellphone camera  :timebomb:
the marquee holding part i finished too :)

Title: Re: Scorps Bartop / 2 Players / 6 Buttons - wip
Post by: psychotech on January 30, 2007, 05:34:25 pm

Looking good  :applaud:

Could you tell us the dimensions of the cab!?

Waiting for more pics ;)

Good luck with the build!

Title: Re: Scorps Bartop / 2 Players / 6 Buttons - wip
Post by: scorp.ius on January 30, 2007, 07:04:09 pm

 :hissy:

AAARGH! whatever i try - i cant get this  :angry: cell phone (a Motorola btw  >:D ) connected with my PC...

 :dunno

Title: Re: Scorps Bartop / 2 Players / 6 Buttons - wip
Post by: Kaytrim on January 31, 2007, 03:57:32 pm

you probably need their software to make the connections.

Title: Re: Scorps Bartop / 2 Players / 6 Buttons - wip
Post by: scorp.ius on January 31, 2007, 05:10:13 pm

i have the software (mobile phone tools) but it is not working... i have tried it on two different PCs with the same result... tells me to connect the phone via usb - it searches for the phone saying that it will be automatically found and installed  :blah: and then  nothing...


it worked on my last xp installation (after some starting troubles :( ) so i keep trying...  :dunno

Title: Re: Scorps Bartop / 2 Players / 6 Buttons - wip
Post by: scorp.ius on January 31, 2007, 06:03:36 pm

ok... got it  :dizzy:

one little question: i have taken a normal IDE cable for the MiniPac.
the red cable is connected to pin 1 of the minipac pin two is the grey cable right next to the red one and so on to pin 40? nothing special about it right?

in the marquee i have used two 2mm plexiglas layers one normal transparent and one that diffuses the light. its the same as on a x-ray screen or a backlighted advertisment.

Title: Re: Scorps Bartop / 2 Players / 18 Buttons - wip
Post by: KenToad on February 25, 2007, 02:36:36 pm

Another sweet bartop that I didn't see originally posted.  I need to check the Project Announcements more frequently.

Nice work.   :applaud: More pics, please.

Title: Re: Scorps Bartop / 2 Players / 18 Buttons - wip
Post by: scorp.ius on February 25, 2007, 03:52:19 pm

we are really short on time... but when it is going on i will of course post more pics :D

Title: Re: Scorps Bartop / 2 Players / 18 Buttons - wip
Post by: scorp.ius on April 24, 2007, 04:17:13 pm

here the cab is painted and the side art is finished

the marquee is made by leapinlew (thanks :) )

Title: Re: Scorps Bartop / 2 Players / 18 Buttons - wip
Post by: Jeff AMN on April 24, 2007, 06:53:13 pm

Calling it sexy would be an undersell. Great work!

Title: Re: Scorps Bartop / 2 Players / 18 Buttons - wip
Post by: theCoder on April 24, 2007, 08:51:27 pm

Those speakers look a bit large.  Are you including the woofer and/or where are you going to mount them?

Any plans for control panel artwork?

Look'n good.

Title: Re: Scorps Bartop / 2 Players / 18 Buttons - wip
Post by: scorp.ius on April 25, 2007, 02:29:47 am

the speakers are in the bottom of the marquee and arent very big... the subwoofer will be placed inside the cab.

here you can see the holes for them...