The NEW Build Your Own Arcade Controls
Main => Project Announcements => Topic started by: Sosetsuken on January 08, 2009, 03:50:32 pm
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This will sort of be my journal for the progress of my Cab :) More to come soon!
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UPDATE Friday 9th January 2008:
HOLY SMURF! I've just come back from a quick look at a few 2nd hand places for a good monitor for my cab, and the last shop had a giant CRT Monitor that would look perfect and it had $5-00 written on it in black marker (Also 'Is very DARK!' written next to it).
At first i thought naaah it has to be at least $50! I lugged the big bugger up to the checkout, and it scanned at $5!
On the way home I was trying not to get excited 'cause it was $5 and that 'DARK' warning probably meant, BLACK.
Plugged her in, and after a few settings got:
(http://img151.imageshack.us/img151/5761/dsc00010vu2.jpg)
Wow! It is certainly a tiny bit dark, but i was going to put a tinted plexi over the screen to get this effect :laugh2:
More shots of the beast (it is really massive!):
(http://img367.imageshack.us/img367/9797/dsc00011wf6.jpg)
(http://img209.imageshack.us/img209/5420/dsc00009by0.jpg)
Sorry for the crappy photos, but it does look really arcade authentic. The screen looks a tiny bit fuzzy in Windows, but when playing a game actually makes it look more like an arcade monitor than a pc monitor :applaud:
Anyways, thanks for listening :) I'm so happy at the moment !!!!
BTW here's how my setup/test area looked this morning before going shopping:
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A good image to start with.. keep um comin'.
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btw, that is $5 AUD so its actually $3.50 US, BARGAIN!
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Five bucks.......but how much is the hernia operation gunna cost? :dunno
Looking forward to seeing another Aussie built cabinet!