My first cab and first post

[arcade-mad]

Hello to everyone
im from the uk and have been lurking and learning from this site for ages.
so thought it was about time i joined the board and said hi and also showed off my first scratch buit cab to get some critisism good or bad im not bothered just want to know what the people in the know think.

its a cocktail kind of cab thats two players with a bubble bobble theme take a look and let me know what you think. 

[arcade-mad]

The cab is finished apart from the glass top

[clonestar]

I really like the cab, and I especially think you did a really neat job inside.  The only negative criticism I have is I don't think the images go as well on the light coloured veneer as they do on the black background of the bezel.

[arcadefever]

  i love that game !!!!
wowwwww that art is very well done !!!!
congratulation..

ps: have ever went all the way to the 100 levels 

[arcade-mad]

Thanks for the comments im glad you like it. 

as for the hundered levels ive done around 60ish thats all but i will complete it one day

[Havok]

Good wire management  - so many people get sloppy in that regard. What's up with the metal cage? I assume it's the monitor - did you fabricate that yourself?

[TurboC--]

- Art is extremely nice (would have been better on black though)
- Nice job on the cording, I got lazy on that (well I have to still plug in my monitor manually after bootup, so...)
- I think you should add a side control for vertical games!  One big advantage of the cocktail.

[arcade-mad]

Hi the cage is the monitor its was there when i removed the plastic back it stops you touchhing the tube and getting a electric shock.

as for a side control i play vertical games on the cab aswell i just set mame to "stretch using hardware" setting then vertical games are full screen aswell 

[GGKoul]

Very Clean!! Good Job!

[Harpal]

thats does look nice, you have trully done a great job with the cab, can i ask which monitor are you using, and have you de cased the whole montior to give it a arcade monitor feel to it, or is the cover arond the screen still there???
and do you have plans/pics of the entire build, i would like to see the build in action.....
cheers
keep up the good work

[c64rulez]

Great clean work. Did you glue the keyboard to the inside of the cab ?
I join the comments made here regarding the colors issue

[arcade-mad]

Yes the keyboard is fixed onto the inside of the access door.

I cant post any of the build pics as my camera was set to the highest resolution and the pics are all bigger than 512kbs (doh)

can i make them smaller anyway

the next cab i build will be all yellow as irs gunna be a mini pacman style cab.
i went with the wood (cherry) vineer because the cab is in my dining room and it went with the surrounding decor  i like it anyway.

[c64rulez]

The most simple solution for that picture size issue is:
open the picture using Microsoft Paint,
from the menu choose Image - Stretch/Skew and just resize as you like

[Nailz]

Nice job, the art is great!  The only thing I would have to say is that the side color should match the top (black).  If you had gone all black or all veneer it would be perfect!