Build Your Own Arcade Controls Forum
Main => Project Announcements => Topic started by: tophatne1 on January 06, 2009, 11:27:38 am
-
So here is an update on my cabinet.
I wanted it to look like a commercial machine so I went with a centipede/missile command Retrocade anniversary theme. I just need a marquee and the theme will be complete. Does anyone have a file for the Centipede/Missile Command/Millipede (Lets Go Bowling) marquee or any of those individual marquees? I need to make a custom sized one to fit this cab. Maybe someone has a lot of free time and would like to do the design. Haha. I can do it if I have the artwork files. I did the CP artwork in photoshop.
Anyway,
The coin door works and lights up, The trackball is a red glowing 3" Happ, and I'm using a 27" Toshiba CRT TV as the monitor. Looks good with the tinted tempered glass over it. Also using a Smartstrip for the "one button" boot up and shutdown of everything. using and OptiPac keyboard encoder for the controls.
I'm hiding windows with a combination of InstantSheller and custom windows settings. Boots right into Maximus Arcade and completely hides windows. Now if I could only get rid of the on screen channel display on the tv it would be complete. Still trying to figure that part out.
I have a very dark video on youtube. I'll post a better one in the next few weeks.
Below are pictures of the cab I was trying to emulate the design after and the rest of the pictures )without the marquee) are my actual cabinet. It was based off of the arcade paradise 3 cabinet.
There's...
(http://www.arcade-history.com/images/cabinet/4914.jpg)
Mine...
(http://i10.photobucket.com/albums/a110/Byron518/100_6205.jpg)
(http://i10.photobucket.com/albums/a110/Byron518/100_6204.jpg)
(http://i10.photobucket.com/albums/a110/Byron518/100_6203.jpg)
(http://i10.photobucket.com/albums/a110/Byron518/CP3-1.jpg)
-
looks nice! Is that a dedicated 4-way stick below the 1-2 player buttons?
-
Nice job, I love the artwork.
-
Thanks!
The joystick is the same 4-way red ball top they're using in the Ms. Pac / Galaga reunion cabinets.
I like the artwork also but man, the side art was a real pain! I found someone selling the artwork set for the Centipede/Missile Command cab on ebay for $30. For that price you know it isn't the best quality. The vinyl is fine and really nice, it's the adhesive that didn't want to stick. I had to use photo mounting spray adhesive under the whole thing. Took a while to get it right but the wife helped out.
I also had to cut out both side art pieces to fit the cabinet. They originally came on giant rectangular sheets of vinyl. If I just put them on that way it would have not covered the whole side of the cabinet and it wouldn't have looked right. So I carefully cut it staying about 1/4" from the image. I still need to add the numbers to the missile command side.
-
Cool project, but that black-backed panel art so contrasts with the white-backed side art.
-
Cool project, but that black-backed panel art so contrasts with the white-backed side art.
I know. I'm still undecided on that. When you see it in person it looks ok. I have a can of paint here to do it but like I said in person it looks fine.
When I painted the CP my plan was to paint the whole cabinet black.
I might still paint it white. Might be a while before I get to it though since it's working now and of course I stopped working on it. I spend all me time playing it.