Arcade Legacy - Mame Cabinet Project

[Woodshop Flunky]

Thanks! I like that one better myself. I feel like it should have something more to it, either more color, or images, or something.

I like it... but I think your right... it could use a little more.  The first thing that came to mind was the neon sign over the Tron game in the movie.  Maybe some border type elements on your marquee?

[KagatoAMV]

While I haven't been able to settle on a marquee idea, I did install wiring for the coin door lights. I set up a pair of jumbo blue LEDs (and resistor) to the +12 volt of the computer wiring harness.



The initial test of the wiring almost set my computer on fire.  

I wired everything together, soldered all the connections and even setup heat shrink tubing to cover all the solder spots. But I didn't want to activate the tubing until I had done one final test. So I made sure all the tubing was in place and plugged the circuit into the harness. The blue lights lit perfectly. Cool.

I decided to pick up the LED end to shine the light around... this is where things went... poorly.

The tubing slid away from the joint closest to the harness, this created a short on the +12 volt line. The door lights were plugged into a daisy chain of  wires for the case fans. Several of these short wires grew bright red, the insullation melted/flaked off and smoke started pouring from the wiring.

After a moment of surprise, I unplugged the computer.  

Fortunately, no real harm was done, I rewired all the case fans and made sure the shrink tubing was secure before testing the coin door lights again.

[Yenome]

i have a cab just like yours except mine as this stupid area in that back that dips into the cab. but i do think im gonna use your idea of building a new control panel for it.

[KagatoAMV]

I like it... but I think your right... it could use a little more.  The first thing that came to mind was the neon sign over the Tron game in the movie.  Maybe some border type elements on your marquee?

This is a bit direct of a steal from the neon sign, but I like the direction I'm going here.



I'm waiting on a friend to render a 3D version of "ARCADE" which I think will look better, its based on a great Photoshop tutorial of the Tron legacy logo.

[Woodshop Flunky]

This is a bit direct of a steal from the neon sign, but I like the direction I'm going here.

+1 

[KagatoAMV]

Did some more designing for the marquee, threw in an Encom logo for the fun of it.



Then dropped the grid background and used a frame from Tron Legacy

[Santoro]

I like all of those!  What font did you use for 'Legacy?'

[SNAAKE]

badass marquee

[KagatoAMV]

Thanks.

The font I used for LEGACY is called Arcade.