nice! lol
But really... those CRTs can send you packing early. As a former arcade mgr, I had to run a CRT Rejuvinator on a monitor. After the long process.. Id disconnect it, reconnect the flyback cups, and fire it up. But it still was crappy. Kept repeating the process.. and eventually, was losing my patience, and thus not being careful enough...
On like my 5th try.. I started to plug the thing in, but realized I had forgot one part of the process.. and immediately yanked the plug. It was so quick, maybe a 5th of a second... so I didnt think there was time for any charge to build, let alone anything of a serious nature.
I got my hand near the cap.. not even near touching, and POW! A loud cracking lightning bolt from hell, reached out and viciously bit its red hot needle Fangs into my finger ! My arm involuntarily flung backwards, nearly breaking the sound barrier... and hit the wall behind the game, with the atomic force of 200,000 Malenkos. Im surprised I didnt break my elbow / arm from the impact. My whole body had hit pretty hard as well. I could feel the effect of pulled and strained muscles... Aches and odd pains. My finger had a small black spot on it.. and had a very foul burnt toast smell to it.
My body ached for like a day, and my arm was a mess for like a week. Really wished I had moved that game out further! .. as well as not been so careless and ignorant. Have to respect the power of the Electron at all times. Same way, if not more so, than a tablesaw blade, or razor sharp hair-splitting knife.
Thats probably the worst zap Id ever taken.. and Im probably lucky to have survived it.
Wear a rubber glove, and discharge using a well grounded screwdriver, every few minutes, for like 10 to 15min. (as somehow, a big charge can build up again, even if it sounded like nothing was popping)
May the Force Be With You!
I really love your cabinet sketch design. But I do have to say.. that its not only a crime that the original machine didnt have a motion cockpit.. but that it "should" be a crime if you dont make one! heh
Of course, thats got my mind all riled up about what else would be awesome.. such as a vector convertor, that changes the output of the game into stereoscopic 3d (built into a starwars visor helmet?).
(would probably have to be a mame based machine for that, unless some crazy hackery was in place.. such as dual vectors & a half silvered mirror?)
Other ideas:
- R2s head rotates left to right randomly, and randomly squawks at you.
(or maybe the head just rotates when the games R2 starts squawking)
- Lit buttons & lit readout panels.
- BASS Shakers & or heavy duty vibration motors attached to the seat support frame
- Cushy Leather or leather look form-fit seat. Possible race style harness?
- Xenon flasher flickers behind your head, lighting up the cab like crazy, when deathstar explodes.
- Flasher bulbs with Red colored lens for when you get hit. Or just inside instrument panels.
- Some instrument panels go dim / flicker when you get hit.
- Possible extra mp3 style sound effects played.
- Possibly multi speaker output, such as a center console speaker which only squawks stuff from the other rebels communications. Speakers outside the cab for environmental effects. (use of a delay echo effect? Simulated surround processing? And or actual fed mp3 battles taking place.. )
- possible additional sound effects via mp3 mapping.. output in various places in and around that cab.
- all speakers except the comm , r2, & possible sub, outside the cab rather than internal.. and use of 3d surround processing with 4 or 8 channel output to various quadrants? An external set of sound-bounce walls (cab within a cab) for better audio spatial surround?
- Laser Projector Vector display?
- Air-Cannon(s) ?
- Sheild tracking.. when final death blow hits, amp up effect power? Or increase output levels as sheilds deplete.. with possible 'constantly-on' simulated ship engine issues (vibration) that get worse as damages increase?
Ehh crap... just remember, if you do anyting with vibrations or a sub.. to mount all sensitive equipment on soft springy materials.. (like 4way bungee cord / mild-spring tension mounts) so that theres no vibration damages.
Fun stuff
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