Since Ryglore has already mentioned how he's working on some authentic startup screens and video
here, I wanted to come and post a couple ideas I've been working on... ...mostly so it doesn't look I'm stealing
all of my ideas from the awesome work here on the forums.
Seriously. There's a big tip of my hat to everybody who brings amazing workmanship, great ideas and original thought to make their cabinets their own. If it wasn't for everybody here, I would have probably just wanted a run of the mill cabinet, and have lost interest way before now.
Anyway, here is what I've been working on. I remember the 'games of old' and how they used to start up - so I've been creating some screens to incorporate into a video startup... I've already got a lot of sounds in my library, from a classic 'Capcom' wav file to all of the original sounds from the Super Turbo Turkey Puncher 3 standalone game. First, I created a generic 'loading' screen, to replace the Windows XP loading screen. For this, I used classic "Doom" fonts.
Next, when the game starts up, there's going to be an intro video that plays, starting with this screen:
Who doesn't remember the old FBI logo and "Winners don't use drugs" tagline?
Onto my Nabcon logo, which I presently have set to fade in to an 8-bit 'Capcom' theme. (If anybody out there wants to create a completely unique 8-bit theme that is
similar to the Capcom theme, but not as close, I would welcome the help! It's the one piece that I cannot do myself.)
Once the Nabcon logo fades out, I'm going to have the Super Turbo Turkey Puncher 3 logo enter from the center of the sunburst, with the authentic wav from the original game...
After this completes it's run, we're into the Maximus Arcade program... ...of which I need to start building my background theme. That looks like it might be a bit of a challenge, but I want it to have all the browns and oranges of the original Doom game in there somehow, just to continue the authentic feel I'm going for.
Anyhow, that's where I'm going with some of the intro video and graphics. Thoughts?