Killer Instinct 2 MAME

[Malenko]

I dont really wanna name it anything else, I dried up my creative juices with Mortal Kabinet lol

no real progress pix, all I did was pull out the dead 25" arcade monitor and mount the 32" Sharp TV (with component input)


KI2 cabinet, stripped of its internals:


Sharp 32" SDTV with COMPONENT input:


moved the top mounting bracket up about 5 1/2"s:


moved the bottom mounting bracket down about 5 1/2"s:

Those holes for all 8 OLD holes were plugged with plastic "chrstmas tree" plugs and look stock. No pix of those, its night time and the lighting sucks in here.

Ignore my fat belly, but heres the 32" monitor mounter VERTICALLY in the cab:

[Malenko]

Here's inside the control panel:

The orange button turns the TV on and off.

Here's inside the Marquee area:


the monitor I was setting everything up with on the chair and the TV , both running Pac-man. You cant really tell, but I was running the standard windows VGA driver at the time, I thought it was a neat picture.


My attempt at showing how big the horizontal games look on the TV mounted vertically, in case you're wondering its the equivalent of about a 24" arcade monitor:


Here's pacman all HUGE-ified:


he's bigger then a quarter!

[Malenko]

these are just more gratuitous pix. There are some issues, like I don't have a front end set up yet AND the bottom of the screen is too low, about an inch is out of site, which for most games is no problem, but for Donkey Kong and Galaga where you're at the bottom, its under the wooden cross beam that holds the glass.

 Its not a big deal to the player, because you can look down and see it, but to anyone standing behind the player or not right next to him, they cant see it. Im going to try and Adjust the TV to move shrink the pic vertically, then move it to the top, just havent had time /wall of text.

I need to add something to block the light/act like a bezel:


pretty good lookin picture for a SDTV:


Spirit Win! lol


DONT judge by these pix, the screen is clear and very easy to read, but the Iphone is a ---smurfy--- camera.

[emphatic]

Awesome monitor!

[killerinstinct]

looks really nice

did you have to go in a service menu from your tv
 to create a good picture over the whole screen?

[Malenko]

looks really nice

did you have to go in a service menu from your tv
 to create a good picture over the whole screen?

nope, thats the factory defaults, I havent "tuned" the picture yet, but I plan to. I'm still trying to figure the bezel, ha!
thanks for the compliments, Im gonna try to take some more pix and maybe a video or two

[killerinstinct]

keep them comming
I'm a ki fan

[Malenko]

quick vid clip, the hardware aspect is done, I dont think Im going to be adding my much beloved 7th button or pinball buttons.

Next time I'll put the cam on a tripod or have someone else take it

KI2MAME

[Turnarcades]

Nice idea on the monitor as you still get a good horizontal display, but I bet it limited your choice of front-ends? That's frikkin' uber-Pac-man on that size screen! Do yourself a favour and don't ruin that original control panel or side-art with modifications, unless it's a bit of resto work.

Oh, but gotta say it mate, you're playing the wrong KI. The sequel is just an abomination compared to the fluidity of the first. Nice cab though.

[Malenko]

Nice idea on the monitor as you still get a good horizontal display, but I bet it limited your choice of front-ends? That's frikkin' uber-Pac-man on that size screen! Do yourself a favour and don't ruin that original control panel or side-art with modifications, unless it's a bit of resto work.

Oh, but gotta say it mate, you're playing the wrong KI. The sequel is just an abomination compared to the fluidity of the first. Nice cab though.

the only thing done to the cab is the 8 extra holes in the side to move the monitor mount, they were plugged by plastic "christmastrees" and can be moved back and replugged. the CPO is staying how it is, I have an old beat up NBA Jam CP that I might butcher and put on this cab, but I think its gonna stay how it is.

As for KI1 vs KI2, I like them both, but KI1 has much better music I still hold onto hope that RARE releases KI3. I took the pix with KI2 cause its a KI2 cab lol.  The screen when playing a horizontal game is still the equivalent of about a 24" screen so I dont lose must real estate that way.  Im tryingt o figure out art files so I can fill int he black sections with instruction cards and or art or something

Right now Im working on the front end skin (MaLa) & game lists; its tedious to go through 7000 games AND I need to find an updated romset mine are a few revisions old and alot of games dont work anymore :/
I'll post up some more vids when its lookin peachier.


Anyone know if Zsnes will rotate the display so I can run it on a vert monitor? I also need to find Genesis, NES, Gameboy,etc emus that'll rotate display

[killerinstinct]

I also like KI1 more than ki2

ki1 plays better and i'm much better on ki1 also

i also have an ki2 cabinet , but ki1 is the game that is always played

[Chicken McNobody]

KI > KI2

Nuff Said

Oh, and the cabinet looks. . . dare I say. . . killer!  

I like the large vertical mount, I think I want to implement something like that in the future.  That looks unreal with the Pac-Man, almost too big.

[Turnarcades]

Don't know about ZSNES having a rotate feature. As it's unlikely many emulators will have a rotate feature, what may work better is to have your graphics card set up to rotate the whole setup from the off, so Windows and everything is rotated as you need it.

[Malenko]

Don't know about ZSNES having a rotate feature. As it's unlikely many emulators will have a rotate feature, what may work better is to have your graphics card set up to rotate the whole setup from the off, so Windows and everything is rotated as you need it.

Nvidia wont rotate the display unless you run at 1024x768, and the TV only runs at 800x600 sooo.....

Yeah worst case I wont run any console emulators that can't rotate, I'm really hoping that NullDC can, I'd love to put MvC2 on there. I'm through the B section of MAME; Im dreading the S section

I should be puttin up more pix n stuff this sunday, after my birthday hangover goes away.