Author Topic: Cab finished, PICS!! (Read 8199 times)

Rahzel · « **on:** April 18, 2003, 06:36:32 am »

Hey all, I finally got a digi cam and was able to take some pics of my cab. I actually finished it about 2 or 3 months ago. I'm still adding side-art, but since it's so large and expensive I'm willing to take a long time designing it to make sure I won't regret something about it. :) I distorted the image around the cab cuz I didn't want anyone to see all the crap in my room. :) Check it yo!

I added some NES and Genesis games to the list following all of the Mame games.

Last one is my 2 Twin-type virtua racings, fully restored and pimped out :D

paigeoliver · « **Reply #1 on:** April 18, 2003, 06:42:41 am »

That control panel overlay is awesome looking. Is it real CPO material like on a regular game? I myself prefer 19" cabinets, but I must admit that yours looks great.

It is also nice to see another Mamehead who owns real games too!

Rahzel · « **Reply #2 on:** April 18, 2003, 06:45:28 am »

Thanks! I got the CPO printed at Kinkos on a vinyl material

Carsten Carlos · « **Reply #3 on:** April 18, 2003, 06:47:23 am »

Wow, this is kind of a colorfull coindoor!

Say, what are the three illuminated buttons for?

Rahzel · « **Reply #4 on:** April 18, 2003, 06:55:14 am »

The 3 buttons are Pause, Reset, and Exit. I'm working on some instruction artwork to go on the bezel that will show what all of the buttons do so I can stop having to explain to friends that come over

EDIT:

By the way, the coindoor is colorful like that because each Coin slot represents what player it belongs to. The color scheme of the CPO is Blue-player1, Red-player2, Yellow-player3, Green-player4.

paigeoliver · « **Reply #5 on:** April 18, 2003, 06:59:59 am »

Also, how much did those two big space eaters set you back? I can't imagine that they were cheap?

Or maybe they were cheap, sometimes the big stuff goes for real cheap at the auctions. Just depends on who is buying at the time.

Arcade stuff is just so addicting. I have a terrible time parting with anything. I have like 14 games now spread out amongst 4 locations, and I don't even like some of them, but I can't seem to give them up.

Rahzel · « **Reply #6 on:** April 18, 2003, 07:05:28 am »

haha so true. I have about 18 real arcades including a fully restored TMNT 2:Turtles In Time cab I'm working on. I got the virtua racings fairly cheap at an auction because 1) They were close to the end of the auction so everyone ran out of money by then (except me

) and 2)They were sold as "Non-working" only because the seats were disconnected from the cabinet on them so no one knew they actually just needed to be plugged in.

paigeoliver · « **Reply #7 on:** April 18, 2003, 07:14:20 am »

18 that is great!

Right now I am constantly argueing with myself over what to keep. At the end of the year I am moving, and that is when I have to collect all my games from their various locations (friends houses mostly). They just aren't all going to fit in one apartment.

So I keep coming up with crazy ideas. Like "The dart machine can go BEHIND the couch, because you really don't need access to the bottom half of it" and "That Time Pilot cocktail adjusts up to kitchen table height, so I don't need a kitchen table!".

It is this fine line. Like do I just get an apartment with an extra bedroom, so I can fit everything? But even then they still won't all fit in one room.

Rahzel · « **Reply #8 on:** April 18, 2003, 07:18:20 am »

haha that's crazy. You can just sell your bed and sleep on some cocktail cabs instead, and lose your fridge..who needs those???

paigeoliver · « **Reply #9 on:** April 18, 2003, 07:22:34 am »

Quote from: Rahzel on April 18, 2003, 07:18:20 am

haha that's crazy. You can just sell your bed and sleep on some cocktail cabs instead, and lose your fridge..who needs those???

Ok, I guess I am going to have to take a picture of my current bedroom. The bed is up on a riser with Jack the Giantkiller and Time Pilot cocktails underneath it.

That is one of the main things that is going to have to change when I move. No games in the bedroom anymore.

Sasquatch! · « **Reply #10 on:** April 18, 2003, 12:10:49 pm »

I'm not a huge Capcom kinda guy, that's a VERY cool marquee. I like the "MAME" lettering you used a lot...it fits the theme of your cabinet very well.

Aceldamor · « **Reply #11 on:** April 18, 2003, 12:16:30 pm »

WOW!!

Fantastic piece!

with stuff like this coming...i'm going to be to ashamed to post pics of mine when it's done...

Great work!!

Craig Pilecky · « **Reply #12 on:** April 18, 2003, 12:53:56 pm »

Wow thats fantastic! Great job!

Mine is about the same size and desing as yours. The only thing that keeps mine from looking that nice is I haven't gotten any good artwork yet. Could you tell us where you got the control panel artwork and other artwork from?

How much does it cost to get that stuff printed up?

Cue-Ball · « **Reply #13 on:** April 18, 2003, 12:55:52 pm »

Great looking cab! Your marquee looks very colorful and bright - not washed out at all. What is it printed on?

Druin · « **Reply #14 on:** April 18, 2003, 01:16:29 pm »

How did you get the colors changed on the coin reject assemblies?

SNAAAKE · « **Reply #15 on:** April 18, 2003, 01:41:12 pm »

ONE WORD !
NIIIIICE ! ! ! ! !

I can clearly see you worked REALLY hard on this one.
Again very nice looking cabinet.

questions,
that was the Marque from Greg right?
How much did you pay?(I still dont know).
Its reverse printed on lexan?
What kind of monitor?looks too good for a TV.
Text readable and everythang.

phantompower · « **Reply #16 on:** April 18, 2003, 01:49:58 pm »

Hey...that marquee looks familiar

Anyway, nice work. I like the finished product.

Chuck

SNAAAKE · « **Reply #17 on:** April 18, 2003, 02:07:03 pm »

Quote from: phantompower on April 18, 2003, 01:49:58 pm

Hey...that marquee looks familiar

Anyway, nice work. I like the finished product.

Chuck

HEY HEY !
I does look familiar...hmm...I am guessing.....
GOT IT ! its yours?

well anyway Rahzel,good job pimpin the marque and the new font looks cool as well.

Rahzel · « **Reply #18 on:** April 18, 2003, 06:37:11 pm »

Quote from: SNAAAKE on April 18, 2003, 01:41:12 pm

questions,
that was the Marque from Greg right?
How much did you pay?(I still dont know).
Its reverse printed on lexan?
What kind of monitor?My god looks too good for a TV.
Text readable and everythang.
Did you find that blue background?same one?
Is this a convertered Gauntlet Legends metal cabinet?
Or complete from scratch?I dont get the coin door part .
Its metal?
How did you do it???

The maruqee I got from phatompower which he let me use a while back, then I changed it around a bit.

Gregory McGill printed the marquee (the same guy who was accused of jacking 4k from someone the other day on this board) on a reversed plexi glass material like SNAAAAAKE said. I designed the CPO and had that printed at Kinkos on vinyl. The monitor is a RCA 25" S-Video TV, and I built the cab from scratch with my own design, but I used a "War: Assault" cab design just for size reference.

Quote

How did you get the colors changed on the coin reject assemblies?

The reject button assemblies can easily be taken out and changed, and I bought the colored ones from Happs to match up with the player colors on the CP.

Frostillicus · « **Reply #19 on:** April 18, 2003, 10:14:02 pm »

Nice looking cab! I really like the different colored coin door lights/buttons/whatever. And it's a cool theme.

phantompower · « **Reply #20 on:** April 20, 2003, 10:11:43 pm »

Razhel...

I like the font and overall look..

Very nice work.

Congrats!

Chuck

Rahzel · « **Reply #21 on:** April 21, 2003, 01:06:26 am »

Thanks for all the compliments guys!

Lucky S.O.B. · « **Reply #22 on:** April 23, 2003, 01:16:26 pm »

What Front End is that?

SNAAAKE · « **Reply #23 on:** April 23, 2003, 05:40:39 pm »

Quote from: Lucky S.O.B. on April 23, 2003, 01:16:26 pm

What Front End is that?

Emuloader

Didnt know it supports genesis emus...

Rahzel · « **Reply #24 on:** April 24, 2003, 08:58:14 am »

True, it's Emuloader, and it supports any Emulator out there. You just have to add each game individually. Me and joeblade are trying to get his program working so Escape key can be pressed to exit the console games. After that it's all good

Vertekal · « **Reply #25 on:** April 25, 2003, 11:04:57 am »

wow that is beautiful .. great work!

I hope mine turns out half as nice...

How wide is the joystick platform area? I'd like to have 4 sticks on mine if it doesn't take up too much room.

Rahzel · « **Reply #26 on:** April 26, 2003, 09:07:45 am »

Thanks, good luck on your cab

If I remember right the control panel is about 38 inches wide by 16 1/2 inches long. I even have room in the middle for a trackball or spinner if I ever wanted.(not both though)

nullb0y · « **Reply #27 on:** April 26, 2003, 01:36:14 pm »

awesome looking cab i wouldnt add a spinner or rackball its not the kind that looks like its ment to have one.....

originalself · « **Reply #28 on:** April 26, 2003, 04:11:16 pm »

Amazing cab. Nuff said!

HeadRusch · « **Reply #29 on:** May 25, 2003, 12:47:55 am »

Dude, pray you never ever have to move

nuff said

"Yes, and how much to move my 8000 pound Virtua Racing setup?"

Sprucemoose · « **Reply #30 on:** May 25, 2003, 04:17:34 pm »

-Beating a dead horse-...."Very NICE Cab!"

AGGIEZ · « **Reply #31 on:** May 02, 2004, 08:31:30 pm »

Where can I get a Marquee and CPO like that?!?!?

Leader98 · « **Reply #32 on:** May 07, 2004, 09:50:55 am »

Dude,

Awsome mame cabinet!
Even better Sega VR twins!
If you have more pics and want to have them on the internet visit our Sega VR Racing website on http://www.virtuaracing.com
Keep on racing!

spystyle · « **Reply #33 on:** May 10, 2004, 04:04:41 pm »

That's a fantastic cabinet !
What plans did you follow to build it ? Will you post them ?

Thanks,
Craig

patrickl · « **Reply #34 on:** May 10, 2004, 05:01:53 pm »

Guys, this thread is over a year old.

pcdoctor · « **Reply #35 on:** May 15, 2004, 06:35:29 am »

Love your cabinet and your VR cabinets!
Very nice!

dmsuchy · « **Reply #36 on:** May 15, 2004, 01:04:51 pm »

Great cab! How did you get the curved look of your base? And the blue, is it painted or laminate?

Rahzel · « **Reply #37 on:** June 05, 2004, 05:19:21 am »

Thanks for the comments guys.

The marquee was printed by a guy named Gregory McGill, I think his website is www.arcadeshopper.com.

Hey Wade I signed your guestbook, awesome site man

Email me sometime.

I pretty much made the plans up myself, but I used a lot of reference from a game called "War: Final Assault" http://www.klov.com/game_detail.php?letter=W&game_id=10402
Then I used the same idea for the rounded front as Gaunlet Legends/Dark Legacy.

I originally meant to use wood for the curves, but couldn't find any locally that had that size diameter. So I went with a large PVC (sp?) pipe and cut it 1/4, then secured the pieces into the corners flush with the wood. I wanted the blue front to look as plastic as possible, so I used a super gloss paint (it's been so long, I forgot the brand) and a sponge roller with a desired result


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