Donkey Kong-questions

[jdbailey1206]

      The Lcd distracts from the whole Oem build thing,.... But on that subject Jennifer gets all amused with the whole scan line talk, Back in the day the graphics were less than desirable and everyone dreamed of better, But today its all about going "retro" by degrading the image with fake lines.

Preach it sister.   

[Kadows]

Everyone that has commented is/has done great work and is smarter than me...but I want to offer one alternative piece of advice.

The one reason I would say it makes sense to buy your artwork BEFORE building the cab is - if you know you want to build as close of a replica to a real DK as possible - buying the correct artwork will force you to. If you building something off you'll have to redo it, but the end product will be closer to the real thing. And building an essentially perfect replica would let you more easily add authentic DK parts in the future if that ever comes up. (lets say a cool original DK marquee pops up on eBay for example!)

All that said, those aren't major things and I'd worry more about what's easiest and best for you.

This was my idea from the beginning. I do have something to confess... I picket up original marquee, screen bezel and control panel overlay on Ebay last night..! I don't want to come of like a ---meecrob--- and go against all the advice, but I still think that building from those make sense. Anyway, its not often you find someone on Ebay who ships big things like that to Sweden so I grabbed them when I had the chance. Worst case I'll just put them on my wall like awesome art!

I still go back and forth on the screen thing. I really would like to avoid a LCD. I went to a cafe that have some arcades today and the owner gave me tons of tips and he let me look inside one of his machines. I learned a lot! He kind of pushed me towards looking for a real arcade monitor and going the whole JAMMA and real PCB route. That is way overkill for me right now but maybe something in the middle. A PC CRT would probably look great to me. Easy to hook up to my PC running MAME right? Only think is I have no experience opening CRT's and I know it can be dangerous with the high voltage.

I looked around for wood today and it seems like I can find plywood that's 9/16. Also my step-dad have a friend who have a super big industrial laser-cuter that could cut most of the pieces for me. We will look into that when its time.

[Kadows]

Say the word and I'll have it moved to the Project Announcements section.  Once move, you may want to modify the title in your first post so that it "announces" your project properly. 

If you do decide to go with an LCD, I highly recommend that you simply buy Crafty Mech's SLG found here:  http://forum.arcadecontrols.com/index.php/topic,129344.0.html  It will automatically add scanlines to your games without taxing the computer.  I believe it requires the use of a VGA plug however (you may need a VGA to DVI adapter for the monitor).

Good luck and welcome to the forums!

DeLuSioNaL29

Thanks! If I go with a LCD I will look into this!

And yes, please move my thread. :]

[jennifer]

     Don't get me wrong here, I do think a Lcd would not only turn this cab into a sweetie, but fast and cheap comparably, Just saying, don't try to make it something its not.

[Malenko]

Its just advice, not a demand.  If you could get what you wanted shipped to you at a reasonable cost, why would anyone oppose that?

[matsadona]

Trevligt med ännu en svensk på forumet 

[wweumina]

I don't want to pimp another forum (it's got nothing on this one anyway) but this thread has a lot of dimensions if you are trying to track some of them down (better than jakobud). 

http://www.dragonslairfans.com/smfor/index.php?topic=783.0

Having now seen a few Nintendo cabs in the wild, not all the cabs were built precisely so don't sweat the minor details too much.

[Kadows]

I don't want to pimp another forum (it's got nothing on this one anyway) but this thread has a lot of dimensions if you are trying to track some of them down (better than jakobud). 

http://www.dragonslairfans.com/smfor/index.php?topic=783.0

Having now seen a few Nintendo cabs in the wild, not all the cabs were built precisely so don't sweat the minor details too much.

Thank you! That thread looks awesome, seems to be a lot of information there. Too bad all the pictures are dead.

And I think you are right, it's easy to get stuck in useless details. A problem I have with most of my projects! Good point!

Trevligt med ännu en svensk på forumet 

Haha, hej! ^^

[jdbailey1206]

That was one of the builds I wanted to mention wweumina.  Thank you.  The other build was over at ukvac.com.  It had a ton of pictures.  I just cant seem to find it.    And if that info doesnt help Neilboy has done a awesome DK resto.  It was done in I believe in 2012 and it can be found here on the forum.