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Thoughts on my Ms Pacman, Galaga, CP overlay
« on: April 01, 2007, 09:53:14 pm »
I still have to put in the buttons, or I may just leave them blank, and just let them go where they go, on the actual control panel.



So what do yall think?  What needs to be done.  Also the cabinet is going to be an exact replica of the Bally/Midway Cabinets that housed the reunion boards, except the sides.  The left is going to be painted blue with Donkey Kong Side art, and the right is going to be Yellow with the Pac-Man side art.  and the t-molding is going to be black, and the kick plate side is going to be black.  I still have to work on a marquee, and a bezel, but I figured I'd start with the control panel.

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Re: Thoughts on my Ms Pacman, Galaga, CP overlay
« Reply #1 on: April 02, 2007, 12:32:15 am »
The CP looks pretty good to me. How will it look on a cab with 1 yellow side, 1 light blue side, and black front? Not very good, I don't think, but then again I might as well be color blind.


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Re: Thoughts on my Ms Pacman, Galaga, CP overlay
« Reply #2 on: April 02, 2007, 12:41:38 am »
I've added the buttons and here is what it looks like.



I was wanting it to be like a reunion cabinet but with donkey kong and pac-man.  And it would have to be blue and yellow.  I'll get my uncle to draw it up in Solid Works, so that I can see what it looks like, before I do it.

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Re: Thoughts on my Ms Pacman, Galaga, CP overlay
« Reply #3 on: April 02, 2007, 09:28:58 am »
I might consider changing the packman yellow outline of the pink stripe to match the thickness of the red galaga outline striping for consistancy sake.  other then that, looks good.

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Re: Thoughts on my Ms Pacman, Galaga, CP overlay
« Reply #4 on: April 02, 2007, 12:42:40 pm »

I like it... nice job.

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Re: Thoughts on my Ms Pacman, Galaga, CP overlay
« Reply #5 on: April 02, 2007, 05:15:14 pm »
The joysticks and buttons seem WAY too high up on the CP.
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Re: Thoughts on my Ms Pacman, Galaga, CP overlay
« Reply #6 on: April 02, 2007, 06:26:10 pm »
The joysticks and buttons seem WAY too high up on the CP.

Well it's going to wrap down, like on the original Bally Midway cabinets, so that the ms pacman and bugs will be waht you see on the front.

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Re: Thoughts on my Ms Pacman, Galaga, CP overlay
« Reply #7 on: April 03, 2007, 10:31:58 am »
The joysticks and buttons seem WAY too high up on the CP.

Well it's going to wrap down, like on the original Bally Midway cabinets, so that the ms pacman and bugs will be waht you see on the front.

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That is what I figured. I think that will look nice. Make sure once that happens that the controls aren't too close to the front of the cp, though.


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Re: Thoughts on my Ms Pacman, Galaga, CP overlay
« Reply #8 on: April 04, 2007, 12:38:20 am »
OK I added in dk jr, not sure what I think about it yet though. Also the whit line represent the bends, where the cp will bend down.



What do yall think about dk jr?

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Re: Thoughts on my Ms Pacman, Galaga, CP overlay
« Reply #9 on: April 04, 2007, 03:35:18 am »
I really like the overall concept and design quality of your cpo, but like you said, I'm not sure about DKjr.  I think that somehow in this view of the cpo he forces the eye to the arrows around the p2 joystick.  I bet though, that if you modeled it so that it was more of a 3 dimensional representation of what the cp will really look like, he will fit nicely into the front of the panel as he is and that his vine will do a nice job of separating the two player sections.  Try either mapping the image onto a 3d image of the cp or just faking it by skewing the top to look like it will in relation to the face.  I tried it in the Gimp and didn't quite get it do do what I am talking about, but I am still a bit of a gimp with the Gimp and don't have photoshop at home.

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Re: Thoughts on my Ms Pacman, Galaga, CP overlay
« Reply #10 on: April 04, 2007, 09:56:27 am »

I like it.  Don't add much more, though.  Simple and well done always wins over complex and crammed.

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Re: Thoughts on my Ms Pacman, Galaga, CP overlay
« Reply #11 on: April 04, 2007, 11:38:06 am »
I like it too - perhaps instead of a full sized DKJr, you can put in an instruction card with some miniature characters on it.

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Re: Thoughts on my Ms Pacman, Galaga, CP overlay
« Reply #12 on: April 05, 2007, 12:15:54 am »
So how do I put an attachment on here and i'll show yall the design step a plans.

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Re: Thoughts on my Ms Pacman, Galaga, CP overlay
« Reply #13 on: April 05, 2007, 12:30:37 am »
Additional Options. It is right below the message window.


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Re: Thoughts on my Ms Pacman, Galaga, CP overlay
« Reply #14 on: April 06, 2007, 02:44:31 am »
Well I thought about this all day and have decided to throw this Idea out the door.  I'm still going to do a MAME cabinet but I'm going to use the Mercs cabinet, I don't want to put any more moeny in this then I have too, I would love to have a donkey kong pacman cabinet, but one I don't have the time, and two I don't have teh tools necessary to build one.  And I don't know any carpenters that could help me so I'm SOL.  And I really have no idea how I'd make the channel for the t molding.  So I'm just going to design up a new CP for mercs, maybe even add a spot for a joystick, track ball or steering wheel, not sure though, it's still gonna be 2 players, but just a diffent cp image.

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