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dfwpiper1:
If YOU had a Space Invaders Deluxe cab.... but wanted to pimp it a little with some LED buttons... what color would you pick?
The color scheme of SI Deluxe totally throws me. Red, White, Blue.. with some green and yellow and black thrown in. It's frankly more hideous than the regular Space Invaders... yet it's kinda awesome in it's garish, retro sorta way. It's aesthetically arguable that yellow, green, blue, red, and white could all look good as lighted buttons. Anybody with a better eye for color complimenting have any suggestions?  :dizzy:
(I'd like the 12 main buttons for P1 and P2 to be the same. Menu/nav buttons can be another color... or a bunch of colors.)


Also... what's everybodys' preference on concave vs. flat. I've never actually tried the flat.... but I'm leaning towards getting flat. (I'm obviously not a hard-core traditionalist)
Concave always felt a little sloppy to me....

paigeoliver:
As a Space Invaders owner I would say swap out the buttons with some translucent leaf buttons and then light those up with 555 lamps or whatever it is that is normally used. Space Invaders is terrible with the microswitch buttons that you can put LEDs into.

Just realized that this is probably a mame setup.

I like the standard concave buttons better than the flat ones. It has little to do with the difference in concave vs. convex and has way more to do with the fact that most of the convex/flat buttons I have seen are so light duty that they could have come off a kiddy toy (my main problem with Asian joysticks too, they cost just as much as American sticks but have these weeny thin shafts that would bend in half if they saw a few days duty in an American arcade.

yotsuya:

--- Quote from: dfwpiper1 on February 10, 2014, 10:00:56 pm ---Also... what's everybodys' preference on concave vs. flat. I've never actually tried the flat.... but I'm leaning towards getting flat. (I'm obviously not a hard-core traditionalist)
Concave always felt a little sloppy to me....

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I hate the flat buttons. They don't feel right. I've bought flat LED buttons and then promptly replaced them.

ark_ader:
Keep it original.  Seriously.

Unstupid:

--- Quote from: ark_ader on February 11, 2014, 12:54:14 am ---Keep it original.  Seriously.

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What he said..... Don't bastardize a classic!

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