Author Topic: Ryan's Minipacman 15 in 1 Cabinet New Photo With Ryan (Read 61375 times)

markrvp · « **Reply #80 on:** May 29, 2005, 08:19:02 pm »

The electrical wiring for this cabinet is much different than a regular Arcade Cab for several reasons:

One: This is a TV stand primarily. As such, power needs to be available at all times for the TV, VCR, and DVD player. These are turned On/Off by remote control just as you would in your living room.

Two: The marquee light would work well for a night light, so the ability to turn it On/Off independently is nice.

Three: The game PCBs should all be switched On/Off together as having to switch all three on separately would be a pain.

Here is my solution:

1 plug strip that is always on, 1 switchable plug strip for the PCBs, and one switched output for the marquee light.

I made a dual switch box that pulls power from the plug strip that is always on. This box switches power independently to another plugstrip for the PCBs and one A/C pigtail for the marquee light.

markrvp · « **Reply #81 on:** May 30, 2005, 12:58:12 am »

Okay, I can't stand it. This thing has to have a bezel despite my attempts to ignore this fact. I'm going to print one on my big inkjet paper and mount it to 1/8" photo mountboard which is similar to foamcore, but heavier.

I took the original Pacman bezel which was designed for a vertical screen and rearranged the graphics into this one that fits Ryan's TV.

Timstuff · « **Reply #82 on:** May 30, 2005, 01:04:40 am »

Hehehe, I had a feeling that sooner or later you wouldn't be able to resist the urge.

Looks great though. I can't wait for your next update.

markrvp · « **Reply #83 on:** May 30, 2005, 06:16:45 am »

I feel like one of Santa's Elves the week before Christmas.

SirPeale · « **Reply #84 on:** May 30, 2005, 10:24:57 am »

No, a coin door wouldn't have looked right on such a cab. You did the right thing.

nostrebor · « **Reply #85 on:** May 30, 2005, 12:06:17 pm »

It looks fantastic! Your son will be oh-so-happy

I am seriously considering hacking some of those games now that you have taken all the work out of figuring it out. The hack now consists of three steps:

Step 1. Log on to BYOAC
Step 2. Find this post in the Projects page
Step 3. follow the consise instructions, paying close attention to the professional photographs.

It couldn't be easier!

Thanks for posting this.

Dave.

MinerAl · « **Reply #86 on:** May 30, 2005, 05:41:25 pm »

Excellent.

AmericanDemon · « **Reply #87 on:** May 30, 2005, 07:21:56 pm »

That looks awesome. Good work and great documentation. I hope I can be as thorough.

Timstuff · « **Reply #88 on:** May 30, 2005, 10:34:50 pm »

Excellent work! Looks awesome.

teetu · « **Reply #89 on:** May 31, 2005, 12:08:03 am »

what is this photo mountboard? is that the stuff one uses in picture frames to put around the picture?

it sounds like exactly what I need in my mini galaga to keep the plexi from flexing downwards. can u get it at a home center or walmart?

phenomenal job by the way. i hope my pac looks half as good

markrvp · « **Reply #90 on:** May 31, 2005, 12:16:28 am »

It's a peel & stick board that you mount photographs to. I order mine from a supplier (for my portrait studio). It's not very rigid, so it won't work to keep your plexi from flexing. I actually bent mine around the TV front for a close fit to the screen.

Thank you everyone for the great compliments!

pathdoc2 · « **Reply #91 on:** May 31, 2005, 09:21:56 am »

Great little project. First time I saw one of these games at the local Wal-Mart I thought about putting one in a cab. Well thought out and very nicely executed.

Zathras · « **Reply #92 on:** May 31, 2005, 12:31:54 pm »

Congrats - a great idea and it looks amazing! Good work.

Hmmmm I wonder if the wife would notice another cab in the rec room...

Tiger-Heli · « **Reply #93 on:** May 31, 2005, 03:52:01 pm »

Awesome job!!!!

I was going to post something about PacMan looking better with preserve aspect ratio turned on, but then remembered that it was made from a Jakks, and stopped myself before I looked like a total idiot.

But I guess that also means it could pretty well pass for a MAME cab, which is a pretty good compliment.

Really nice work!!!!

Timstuff · « **Reply #94 on:** June 02, 2005, 02:14:38 am »

I think that once I'm in a bigger house I might consider making a mini-Mortal Kombat cab using hacked Jakks Mortal Kombat TV games. If I ever get around to it, I'll definately use this for reference.

Nannuu · « **Reply #95 on:** June 02, 2005, 08:03:59 am »

That thing is fantastic! Very nice. I'd say you really improved the quality of Jakks controllers. You should consider printing for all of us Texans

.

I didn't see that you ever posted the link or pics of the Kreg pocket jig. The website is:
http://www.kregtools.com/
I assume you probably have the K2000 ProPack? That's what I have and it is one of my favorite tools.

markrvp · « **Reply #96 on:** June 04, 2005, 11:49:45 pm »

Here is the happy birthday boy with a very proud papa and his mother and brother. This was the best birthday ever!

Timstuff · « **Reply #97 on:** June 05, 2005, 12:49:07 pm »

Awww.

CJK · « **Reply #98 on:** June 05, 2005, 02:34:15 pm »

Oh my goodness -- what a fabulous project! Thanks for sharing it with us! I have been planning to build a small cabinet for my little boy (who's just turned 1 -- so I have some time!), and it will be a huge help to have this project to refer to.

I can't imagine Ryan could be any happier -- and you can see it in his smile!

Congrats, Dad -- you done good!

-- Chris

markrvp · « **Reply #99 on:** June 05, 2005, 06:34:47 pm »

Quote from: CJK on June 05, 2005, 02:34:15 pm

I have been planning to build a small cabinet for my little boy (who's just turned 1 -- so I have some time!), and it will be a huge help to have this project to refer to.

You can never start to early. My oldest son got an electric train and a remote controlled Jeep for his first Christmas when he was only 1 month old. I kept them running for him until he was old enough to play with them.

CJK · « **Reply #100 on:** June 06, 2005, 07:08:09 am »

Quote from: markrvp on June 05, 2005, 06:34:47 pm

You can never start to early.

kcorcoran · « **Reply #101 on:** June 29, 2005, 11:55:42 am »

can you tell me (us) what the name of the material you used to laminate the CPO with? it appears to have a matte finish and texture just like a NOS CPO.

please let me know.

thanks.
keith.

c64rulez · « **Reply #102 on:** January 07, 2006, 06:56:36 pm »

This is great great great stuff.
Nothing compares with a happy kid. And he looks happy.
Very fine work.

Grasshopper · « **Reply #103 on:** January 07, 2006, 07:17:22 pm »

Very impressive. I bet the designers of the Jakks joysticks never imagined anyone would hack them in the way you've done.

DrewKaree · « **Reply #104 on:** January 09, 2006, 01:59:22 am »

Hey mark, I read this a while back, and didn't see how you were hooking this up for power, but I was at Wal-Mart today, and they started selling the wall wart plugs for these things. Around $8 and packaging says it's supposed to be good for any of the ones that say "play on your TV" or whatever the JakkPac's said.

Grasshopper · « **Reply #105 on:** January 09, 2006, 09:25:52 am »

Quote from: DrewKaree on January 09, 2006, 01:59:22 am

Hey mark, I read this a while back, and didn't see how you were hooking this up for power, but I was at Wal-Mart today, and they started selling the wall wart plugs for these things. Around $8 and packaging says it's supposed to be good for any of the ones that say "play on your TV" or whatever the JakkPac's said.

Unfortunately only the plug & play games made by Radica seem to come with a socket for a mains adapter. The Jakks ones have to be hacked.

MinerAl · « **Reply #106 on:** January 09, 2006, 04:34:10 pm »

Quote from: Grasshopper on January 09, 2006, 09:25:52 am

Quote from: DrewKaree on January 09, 2006, 01:59:22 am
Hey mark, I read this a while back, and didn't see how you were hooking this up for power, but I was at Wal-Mart today, and they started selling the wall wart plugs for these things. Around $8 and packaging says it's supposed to be good for any of the ones that say "play on your TV" or whatever the JakkPac's said.

Unfortunately only the plug & play games made by Radica seem to come with a socket for a mains adapter. The Jakks ones have to be hacked.

Actually, Drew's right. Jakks Pacific now sells a widget that jams up inside the battery box and runs off a wall wart. It works on most of the joystick shaped ones, but not on some of the others that may have weird battery configurations. I have one each on a Ms. Pac and a Pac, and I've used them on my Spongebob and spiderman, and a few others. It does not work with the frogger nor space invaders ones (not from Jakks Pacific, so duh).

Which, I guess is a hack, which is what you said, so I got nothing.

Santoro · « **Reply #107 on:** February 03, 2006, 08:53:16 pm »

I have no idea how I missed this back in May, but this kicks butt. Awesome work Mark.

skippy · « **Reply #108 on:** February 04, 2006, 11:53:56 pm »

Awesome job Mark. I guess I spwmd too much time in EE and missed this first time around. I gonna have to start hacking the Jakks controllers instead of using pc's for cabinets I build friends. It would really cut down on having to do service.

missioncontrol · « **Reply #109 on:** December 12, 2006, 09:05:31 am »

Mark,

bringing this thread back up from the dead, I'm wondering after a year of game play how are the Jakks PCBs holding up?

especially the control for the pole position?

MinerAl · « **Reply #110 on:** December 12, 2006, 10:16:34 pm »

I don't know how much use it gets, but the one I gave to my sister's kids for Christmas 2004 is still running strong. The stupid fluorescent light keeps burning out, but the game and TV work great.

The T-Stick+ is still perfect, and the steering wheel-topped jakks' steering mech from the joystick still functions same as new.

Mark, how much use has Ryan put on his?

missioncontrol · « **Reply #111 on:** December 12, 2006, 11:56:51 pm »

thanks MinerAl... I'm considering building some bartops using these and was curious how well they held out.... Of course I better finish my other brazillion projects first....

markrvp · « **Reply #112 on:** December 13, 2006, 06:12:58 pm »

The MsPacman and Songebob PCBs still work great. The Pacman PCB has some garbage in it. The only guess I have on what happened to that one is that the 6v DC adapter is feeding too much voltage to the PCB and it fried something.

The Pole Position mechanism is still great and works perfectly. The joysticks and buttons all work great.

The fluorescent light just burned out after 17 months.

Ryan honestly doesn't play this too much as he prefers the games on his Gamecube. He does watch TV on the cabinet every day though. Like I said earlier, this is a glorified TV cabinet (albeit one that took a helluva lot of work).

moonpatrol 4 lyfe · « **Reply #113 on:** January 28, 2007, 03:00:14 pm »

I bought a 4 in 1 or 5 in one joystick that had galaga and a few other titles on it. After a couple of weeks of play, the graphics started to get screwy and I couldn't really play anymore.

I'm glad to hear that this problem isn't typical.

Bill

gurnie · « **Reply #114 on:** August 14, 2007, 08:13:03 pm »

Would markrvp mind reposting (if he has them) some of the images that seem to be missing in this post? I am thinking of converting an Mac SE (and adding some parts so it has a control panel) to a mini-cabinet as a thanks for helping me set-up my cabinet. I am mostly interested in the wiring pics, especially those that show the soldering on the gameboards and the connections that connect the boards to the push buttons.

Thanks for your time

missioncontrol · « **Reply #115 on:** August 14, 2007, 08:33:16 pm »

hmmmm weird some are gone, but others aren't I PMed him hopefully he still has them....

markrvp · « **Reply #116 on:** August 14, 2007, 10:31:40 pm »

This is bizarre. Not only are some of the attachments gone, but also some of my remarks - especially the ones where I have quoted someone and responded. I don't know why that happened guys, but I'm sorry.

gurnie · « **Reply #117 on:** August 14, 2007, 10:43:08 pm »

I'm really interested in this project. Is there anything I can do to help you post it?

missioncontrol · « **Reply #118 on:** August 15, 2007, 07:53:36 am »

mark, I know this is way too much extra work to throw on you when you have current projects/work that take most your time, but perhaps you could revisit this thread and recreate it in the wiki. Many people have used this thread as a resource and it would be a shame if it ended up lost forever. At least throwing it, pics and a summarization or even a step by step tutorial would be beneficial to other members who take one such a project. I know I will eventually use some of your ideas you've posted here when I get around to building a bartop using the Jakks plug and plays.

Just a thought.

I went to revisit Ixliam's BYO Skeeball thread and found it has lost some very important pictures making that thread less helpful than it was before. I realize his pics were hotlinked and his site is gone, but I'd hate to see the boards lose these pics by some unforseen event.

Stobe · « **Reply #119 on:** August 15, 2007, 11:24:32 am »

And when you're done with that, you can come to each of our houses and build one of these for us.

(j/k)


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Author Topic: Ryan's Minipacman 15 in 1 Cabinet *New Photo With Ryan* (Read 61375 times)

Author Topic: Ryan's Minipacman 15 in 1 Cabinet New Photo With Ryan (Read 61375 times)