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mtalkington:
It's finally done! Check it Rio's Atomic Arcade at www.canyoudigit.com/index.htm

Technically the cabinet isn't 100% yet. I still have to add my MAME computer into the cabinet, but I'm not going to do that until this weekend, when I get some additional RAM.......but in the meantime, the cabinet has a Playstation 2 and an XBox inside. It's also got a Toshiba 20" (really tough to find with component inputs!) and an Altec Lansing surround sound system. (The rear speakers are wired discretely under a carpet and placed opposite the cabinet...in other words, they're behind the person playing at the cabinet.)

Notice that the sides have neon blue fans and there's a neon blue "portal" on the front/bottom of the cabinet. The pictures (as usual) don't really do these lights any justice.
By the way, the airholes and portal are nonfunctional...just decorative.

The control panel is Happ Supers wired up to a 2 PS2 controllers. Because I suck with soldering, the PS2 controllers were hacked by a fellow on this site, gnateye. (And I had some valuable advice from Spidermonkey, SNAAAKE and David K. Thanks for the help, guys.) I have a ps2 to PC USB converter I'll use to run the MAME games. And for the XBOX, I'm just using MadKatz wireless controllers.

I know that the control panel art kind of sucks, but I ran out of cash...and Kinko's screwed up and printed 2 Marquees. So I just used the second (and free) marquee as a graphic for the control panel. When I strike it rich, I'll design and print something better. In the meantime, this does the trick.

Birdtales:
Looks awsome. I really like bezels with instuction cards on them. Did you print those yourself or did you have them printed. I'd be interested in the source files if you don't mind sharing. Just looking for ideas don't want to steal.

I actually like the graphic on the control panel. It's clean and doesn't make it look cluttered.

 Anyway, nice job.

mtalkington:
Thanks, Birdtales! My girl did the graphics. She made them in photoshop and then I had them printed dirt cheap at www.makestickers.com

It's actually a bumper sticker-size and I just turned it sideways. I just uploaded a .jpg file to makestickers, and they printed them for like 8 bucks or something, and I stuck them to the panel. They are really simple with primary colors because the makesticker printer isn't high-rez enough to get all fancy. In fact, my girl had to recreate the XBox and PS2 logos without so much shading/gradation so it'd reproduce OK.

If you want, I can post the sticker .jpgs on my site for downloading.

SNAAAKE:
very nice dude....like the bezel instructions.
and very nice marque.quick question,what paper did you use for the marque?regular?

I know exactly how you feel about this kinko's....in case you never heard my story..

they printed my marque 24"x54" and CP overlay 114"x54"..and my total was $415(they redid the whole thing though..lol.....

I JUST LOVE KINKO'S :P :-*. >:(

mtalkington:
Thanks SNAAKE...The marquee was printed on high-gloss paper at Kinkos. Cost like 47 bucks. And it took four trips before they got it right. But no sweat, they were gracious about it, so it's all good.

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