Re: UAII Style TMNT 4 Player Cabinet UPDATE: 90% Complete

[dheck]

Hey guys.  I am far enough along now that I feel like I can post.  I've been working on this for maybe a year now but recently have had time to really get some things done.  I wanted to recreate the original TMNT Cabinet but update it a little in the style of the UAII cab.  The control panel is a design I worked up from reading all the great feedback from this forum. 

All that is really left is to finish the painting, wire the control panel and apply the artwork.

I have sent to art off to print.  I took the original artwork for the side and control panel and modified it. I spent hours in photoshop filling in all the original button holes and what not so that I would have a clean slate for my own sides and control panel.

Now for the pics

This is using a 27" Sony CRT

[acvieluf]

Did April O'Neill always have a broken leg in that picture? I may have never noticed that as a kid.

I always LOVED the art style of the Turtles on this cab, though.

Your work looks great, and I love how the back opens!

Sent from my Atari 2600

[dheck]

Did April O'Neill always have a broken leg in that picture? I may have never noticed that as a kid.

I always LOVED the art style of the Turtles on this cab, though.

Your work looks great, and I love how the back opens!

Sent from my Atari 2600

I never noticed her leg either!  She is definitely in a weird stance.  It's probably because I was always fixated on her sexy 80's hair.

[tim258]

Great work! Looking to start   On my first cabinet. Keep us posted


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[dheck]

Well I realized I screwed up on my control panel after I already got it all mounted and buttons installed.  I followed the original control panel design.

Original from Left to Right is as follows
P1    P2        P3      P4
Leo  Mikey   Don    Raph

Since I followed the original control panel design my button colors associated with correct turtle are all messed up except for Raph because from left to right I have

P3    P1        P2      P4
Leo  Mikey   Don    Ralph

I did this so P1 and P2 were the center most players to the monitor.  I didn't think about switching the graphics around to compensate for this change.

This is only a factor when you are playing the actual Turtles game.  I can't decide if it bothers me enough to reprint the control panel. 

[PL1]

Just remap the controls for P1-P3 in MAME and you're good to go.   

* List of 4P games where player #s/characters are in a 1, 2, 3, 4 (left to right) configuration -- compiled by BadMouth
Bomber Man World
Brute Force
Captain America and the Avengers
The Combatribes
Crime Fighters
D.D. Crew
Dark Adventure
Desert Assault
Double Dragon 3
Escape Kids
Exvania
Gauntlet
Gauntlet II
Gauntlet Dark Legacy
Gauntlet Legends
Growl
Heated Barrel
Main Event
Mercs
Metamorphic Force
Numan Athletics
Punk Shot
Quartet
Rampage
Rampage: World Tour
The Simpsons
Sunset Riders
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles - Turtles in Time
Thunder Zone
Vendetta
X-Men 6 player (X-men 4 player allows you to select character independent of player position)

Scott

[dheck]

Just remap the controls for P1-P3 in MAME and you're good to go.   

* List of 4P games where player #s/characters are in a 1, 2, 3, 4 (left to right) configuration -- compiled by BadMouth
Bomber Man World
Brute Force
Captain America and the Avengers
The Combatribes
Crime Fighters
D.D. Crew
Dark Adventure
Desert Assault
Double Dragon 3
Escape Kids
Exvania
Gauntlet
Gauntlet II
Gauntlet Dark Legacy
Gauntlet Legends
Growl
Heated Barrel
Main Event
Mercs
Metamorphic Force
Numan Athletics
Punk Shot
Quartet
Rampage
Rampage: World Tour
The Simpsons
Sunset Riders
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles - Turtles in Time
Thunder Zone
Vendetta
X-Men 6 player (X-men 4 player allows you to select character independent of player position)

Scott

I did not even think of that!  Clearly I do not have a lot of experience with MAME just yet.  You just saved me a lot of heartache!

[dheck]

Here is the control panel finished up with controls installed along with t-molding.

[Montani]

That looks great. One of my fav arcades as a kid.

[dheck]

Some updates.  It's about 90% complete.  My modified original artwork turned out to look pretty good on a UAII style cabinet.  Some pictures below.  Just some minor things to finish now.

[dheck]

All that is left is some front end tuning and that's about it.  Please excuse the disaster of a house.  It's hard to keep things tidy when you're trying to finish one of these projects!