Wow, maybe the first product I've seen you release lately that I haven't thought "damn, I need that."
Be good if the coin slots could be punched out and replaced with the NovaGem Coin Button?Brilliant!
My plan has been to make another version of the render with the coindrops omitted and a drill template for the NovaGem-CDR's in their place. Just haven't made it to that point yet :)
RandyT
My plan has been to make another version of the render with the coindrops omitted and a drill template for the NovaGem-CDR's in their place. Just haven't made it to that point yet :)
By Peel and Stick does that mean it can be removed with no residue and put somewhere else?
One question, you mentioned the version with templates for the NovaGem-CDR's. Would that version be the exact same size, just minus the holes template? Basically I'm wondering if I could install this version now and then drill the holes at a later time for the NovaGem-CDR's.
Wouldn't it be fun to install this on a sheet of wood behind a real coin door before you sold a system. Just think of the look on the buyer's face.
If you really missed the sound of coins dropping in you could maybe do a recorded sample of one and have the front end run that sound when you select a game, obviously it would only be when choosing a new game and not when actually coin-in happens, but it would still help with the nostalgia. Or if there were a little application or special way to compile MAME to include a coin in sound when the credit button is pressed then it would be every time. EVEN more cool would be to have several samples and run a random one when you inserted a credit.
This would be pretty simple for the folks who have already devised "key" listening software which uses hooks. Maybe Ahofle will add a function to his mouse axis activated volume control program to play a wav file when one the appropriate keypresses are sensed.
Randy, instead of doing seperate runs of the door sticker with and without the coin drop parts, you could just print up a pattern that matches the door color and texture and then have people stick it on TOP of the area, to hide it. Then they can install the nova button on top.
Wouldn't it be fun to install this on a sheet of wood behind a real coin door before you sold a system. Just think of the look on the buyer's face.
Randy, any plans for a vacuum-molded 3D version of this? I'm not in the market, but it was something that occured to me the last time you had shown this. And now that you've got the coin buttons, you wouldn't even have to worry about painting them, outside of a dab of silver on the lock, and the customer can do that with a small bottle of Testors.
Randy, if I wanted a couple of the CDR template versions, could I just order the regular ones and add a note at checkout to make them the cutout version? I assume they will be the same price? Thx.
If you really want to mess with people, I think you'd want to drill out the "lock" and install a real lock and leave the key in it. "Why won't this open?"
Just received my unreal coin door and two CDR buttons, slapped it on my cabinet, threw in some 5V wires from my computer and voila!! Randy, you are the MAN! Thought I'd share some pics.
Reminds me of this:
http://forum.arcadecontrols.com/index.php?topic=70327.0
:)
I wonder if you could get a plastic blown mould of a real coin door then put the sticker over it. That would give it more of a 3d look from angles.
I wonder if you could get a plastic blown mould of a real coin door then put the sticker over it. That would give it more of a 3d look from angles.
That's what we were talking about earlier with the vacuum forming. The tooling costs would certainly be many thousands of dollars. With that kind of up-front costs, one would need to be quite sure they were going to sell a large number of units, and even then, it would take quite a while to get the investment back.
RandyT
Someone over at KLOV pointed out that the copyright message is MUCH MUCH MUCH too large and sort of kills it. Why have it on the front? Couldn't you put it on back or perhaps make it a little larger at the bottom, add the copyright but make it so it can easily be cut off?
The green copyright info at the bottom sort of ruins it