Author Topic: Marble Mania Mame Project - 99% DONE - NEW PICS 10/25 (Read 4831 times)

spara · « **on:** August 27, 2004, 11:41:09 pm »

Old Bad Dudes machine conversion. First attempt at a Mame machine, go easy on me!

BEFORE PICS

UPDATED 10/25/04 - 99% DONE

SlikStik added to the cab, 25" WG CGA monitor added, running a P4 with 512Ram, Bits Unlimited power strip, 5.1 sound with subwoofer.

Sorry the pics of the marquee are a bit washed out from low light in the room. Marquee artwork original by myself in Photoshop, printed at mamemarquees.com, great job Scott! Very nice quality.

Running Mame with MameWAH frontend. You can see the customized layout scree for MameWAH I designed to match the Marble Mania theme.

Will probably add some sideart and some CP graphics of somekind, but for now it ROCKS BABY! WOOHOO! Finally done! Man did I miss these old games!

Craig

walls83 · « **Reply #1 on:** August 27, 2004, 11:55:36 pm »

Kansas City in the house.!!! Check your PM. Nice cab for being free.

spara · « **Reply #2 on:** August 28, 2004, 12:06:20 am »

BTW: iI saw one or two others that mentioned they had used an old Bad Dudes cabinet. Anyone got any pics of what they did with it? Thanks.

Craig

SirPeale · « **Reply #3 on:** August 28, 2004, 09:19:12 am »

Well, you have a JAMMA harness in there already. Get an arcade monitor and a J-PAC, wire it CORRECTLY (including fuses and an isolation transformer) and you'll have the start of something!

AlanS17 · « **Reply #4 on:** August 28, 2004, 01:11:23 pm »

I actually built a MAME machine from Bad Dudes machine. The first thing to know is...

Unfortunately, Bad Dudes control panels are CRAP! They're metal and the layout doesn't provide good use. It was barely good enough for bad Dudes. If you'll notice, the buttons (and joysticks) are set at an angle. This makes it useless for 4-way games because up is more like "up and to the right". Also, the buttons on either side are nice for lefties, but useless for anyone else. In the original game they were just mirrored. But in any other game, you can't be reaching across the joystick from both sides to reach all your buttons. That being said...

You'll find yourself having to replace the control panel or drill it out from scratch. However, if the latter is the case, you're probably just as good off with making a new one.

I built a pretty big "franekpanel" over mine, but it fit well (at least better than most). If you don't want more than SF controls, you can fit them cramped on the control panel. However, if you want virtually anything else you'll need to build some sort of attachment.

I'll try to get a picture posted of the Bad Dudes machine of mine.

spara · « **Reply #5 on:** August 28, 2004, 04:31:46 pm »

I have already stripped the cabinet pretty bare including the CP. It's way to small and I want a nice 2 player setup with trackball, etc. So I will be doing a similar Frankenpanel setup to yours.

What size monitor did you put in it? I am going to try and get a 25" med. res. monitor crammed in the 24" space somehow. The dimensions are just a bit less than 24" for a 25" monitor.

Sanding and priming today, paint going on soon. There will be lot's of custom graphics on this machine since my friend owns a sign shop and can cut anything out of vinyl or full color print for me.

I will start laying out the graphics next week. If you can post a pic that would be great! Thanks.

Craig

spara · « **Reply #6 on:** October 25, 2004, 09:43:22 pm »

Check out the pics above of the finished machine. Any questions let me know!

gtarcade · « **Reply #7 on:** October 25, 2004, 09:56:43 pm »

Do you have the original controls still?

Apollo · « **Reply #8 on:** October 25, 2004, 09:58:43 pm »

Mary Shelley fan are we?

AmericanDemon · « **Reply #9 on:** October 25, 2004, 10:39:58 pm »

Apollo: Nice subtle line.

However I agree.

spara · « **Reply #10 on:** October 25, 2004, 11:00:06 pm »

Sigh...I know I know....the purists here just can't stand the CP. The picture actually makes it look much larger than it actually is, like a fisheye lens effect for some reason.

But thanks for the nice comments anyway! Sigh...

paigeoliver · « **Reply #11 on:** October 25, 2004, 11:44:44 pm »

Are you left handed?

SOAPboy · « **Reply #12 on:** October 26, 2004, 12:05:03 am »

Quote from: walls83 on August 27, 2004, 11:55:36 pm

Kansas City in the house.!!! Check your PM. Nice cab for being free.

TOPEKA IN THE HOUUUSE

anyways.. mucho nice.. wish my cp looked like that.. laf

clanggedin · « **Reply #13 on:** October 26, 2004, 04:50:23 pm »

I just picked up a Data East cab, and it had soo many holes in the original metal cp, that I've decided to frankenpanel mine too.

Looks very good!

spara · « **Reply #14 on:** October 26, 2004, 05:03:56 pm »

Quote from: gtarcade on October 25, 2004, 09:56:43 pm

Do you have the original controls still?

Yep, sitting in my garage in a pile of trash.

spara · « **Reply #15 on:** October 26, 2004, 05:06:12 pm »

Quote from: paigeoliver on October 25, 2004, 11:44:44 pm

Are you left handed?

No? The setup is perfect. I would much rather use my left hand for the joystick and right hand for the buttons. This SlikStiik is an awesome CP!

Just needs some graphics which I am working on.

whammoed · « **Reply #16 on:** October 26, 2004, 05:51:20 pm »

Quote from: spara on October 26, 2004, 05:06:12 pm

Quote from: paigeoliver on October 25, 2004, 11:44:44 pm
Are you left handed?

No? The setup is perfect. I would much rather use my left hand for the joystick and right hand for the buttons. This SlikStiik is an awesome CP!

Just needs some graphics which I am working on.

I think he was referring to the trackball placement?
Anyways, marquee turned out great!

Magnet_Eye · « **Reply #17 on:** October 26, 2004, 08:49:44 pm »

ah geez..so you CHOPPED OFF the front of the cabinet to mount that franken-panel?

yikes....

yeah, the trackball is wrong..why isn't it in the center? and why are the buttons on the wrong side? oh well.. i think those slikshits are lame.

I do like the marquee and your mamewah skin..good work!

DarkKobold · « **Reply #18 on:** October 26, 2004, 09:34:53 pm »

I think it looks great, personally.
And c'mon, it is a bad dudes cabinet. .... bad... dudes...

the word "classic" doesn't fit anywhere in that last statement.

Its not like he hacked up a centipede or tapper or asteroids or tempest or pacman or any REAL classic.

bad dudes.... I doubt anyone will ever say, "I've really been looking for a bad dudes cabinet so I can restore it!"

LOL

good work.

paigeoliver · « **Reply #19 on:** October 27, 2004, 04:36:42 am »

Of the 300 or so trackball arcade games made roughly 100 of them were ambidextrous (trackball in center, buttons on both sides), 198 of them had the buttons on the left side, and the remaining 2 didn't have any buttons.

That is why I ask if you are left handed.

LeedsFan · « **Reply #20 on:** October 27, 2004, 09:40:15 am »

Quote from: paigeoliver on October 27, 2004, 04:36:42 am

Of the 300 or so trackball arcade games made roughly 100 of them were ambidextrous (trackball in center, buttons on both sides), 98 of them had the buttons on the left side, and the remaining 2 didn't have any buttons.

That is why I ask if you are left handed.

This is innteresting..... I obviously use my mouse with my right hand. But if I was playing a trackball game I'd use my left hand on the TB and the right hand for the buttons. It just feels totally natural to me that way. I've designed my cab with the TB in the middle and dual using buttons 1 and 2 on player 2 side for the buttons.

I dont think I could play a TB game with the buttons on the left!

spara · « **Reply #21 on:** October 27, 2004, 10:25:58 am »

Ahh...trackball. Never even gave it a thought. It felt natural to use the trackball that way. In Windows, trackball with left and mouse buttons on right is comfortable.

As far as the cabinet goes, your right. It was a BAD DUDES cab. I rescued it from the dumpster. I chose it especially for the curved marquee, it is cool!

Thanks for the comments.

spara

biscoradio · « **Reply #22 on:** October 27, 2004, 03:15:35 pm »

if you need to use the trackball with your right hand, you can use the p1 buttons for your buttons. The angle might be a little off, but it'll work.


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