Author Topic: MAME Cabinet Completed With Pics.updated March 18 (Read 41701 times)

motorfish · « **Reply #40 on:** December 29, 2002, 05:30:38 pm »

Here's a very rough look at what the new MAME machine will look like. There are some geometry problems in the model which will be fixed soon, but at least you can get an idea of how it will look.

SNAAAKE · « **Reply #41 on:** December 29, 2002, 08:02:24 pm »

HOLY crap...NIIIIICE...really looks like that or will look?

WOW...very cool..i like

.
dude is this just blue molding?
you get from t-molding.com right?

CthulhuLuke · « **Reply #42 on:** December 30, 2002, 05:03:22 am »

Very very nice looking. That wiring is gonna look pretty insane with all those buttons. Good professional overlay on that cp for sure. My only change would be moving the 7th button down to the bottom left because I use the A button for the Neo Geo with my thumb like the original Neo Geo joysticks (although I don't like the real neo geo joysticks, corners = bad for those who know what I'm talkin bout.) And I'd also flip the white and black on the very top right hand side, so it looked a little more symmetrical to your eyes. The way your overlay's image is more aimed towards the user's playing instead of a compilation of pictures is a nice touch, I would go either way but if I were to go the way you're going, I'd hope mine looked like yours, cause it's very well done. If you had enough space and resources to do some new, cool bezel that might look good as well, but it's all up to you.
-Good Job
-CthulhuLuke

Silverwind · « **Reply #43 on:** December 30, 2002, 11:05:09 am »

http://motorfish.homestead.com/files/control_pannel_graphic_copy.jpg

now this here... if I wanted to use parts as a template.. how would I print this (or any image) out to scale? (laser printer)

if I print.. it just takes up one page.. doesn't look the size as it is on the monitor... not very familiar with printing things to scale..

motorfish · « **Reply #44 on:** January 01, 2003, 02:27:03 pm »

The original has the following resolution and size:

Width: 9312 pixels

Height: 4725 pixels

Print sixe (to scale)

Width: 31.04 Inches

Height: 15.75 Inches

Resolution: 300 DPI

Silverwind · « **Reply #45 on:** January 01, 2003, 04:42:34 pm »

wow nice.. what kind of program did you use to put it together? photoshop?

Quote from: motorfish on January 01, 2003, 02:27:03 pm

The original has the following resolution and size:

Width: 9312 pixels

Height: 4725 pixels

Print sixe (to scale)

Width: 31.04 Inches

Height: 15.75 Inches

Resolution: 300 DPI

motorfish · « **Reply #46 on:** January 01, 2003, 06:12:01 pm »

Photoshop 5.5

Here's a look at my re-do of the orginal control panel using the new graphics I made. I felt that the graphics for my old one were a bit outdated and primitive:

here's how the MAMEClassic control panel looks:

Dave_K. · « **Reply #47 on:** January 01, 2003, 08:19:46 pm »

Motorfish, this is amazing artwork. Was is all done with Vectors? Any tips for how you did this work? (and how long it took you?)

After seeing these great examples, I've decided to redo my Dreamcast cabinet control panel with artwork and plexiglass (it currently only has black pica vinyl).

Silverwind · « **Reply #48 on:** January 01, 2003, 09:39:23 pm »

Quote from: Dave_K. on January 01, 2003, 08:19:46 pm

Motorfish, this is amazing artwork. Was is all done with Vectors? Any tips for how you did this work? (and how long it took you?)

After seeing these great examples, I've decided to redo my Dreamcast cabinet control panel with artwork and plexiglass (it currently only has black pica vinyl).

yes.. very excellent.. I would like to attempt to create some artwork for my upcoming CP.. where to start?

I'm decent with manipulating images and such.. but how do I start the file? I want to make sure that it will be to scale for my happ super and happ horz pb's..

Smittydc · « **Reply #49 on:** January 02, 2003, 10:37:48 am »

One thing I noticed while designing and printing my CP art that people doing these precise overlays may want to keep in mind: Kinko's may give you a runaround on exact printing. I took a .PDF file to them and then measured what they printed out -- it was off about 1/8" on each of the sides (not a lot, admittedly, but enough). They gave me some story about how their vinyl printer never printed things exactly right in both dimensions -- I pointed out that Adobe and the printer manufacturers have done a lot of work to ensure that didn't happen.

Advice from experience:
- take a tape measure with you when you pick up your printing.
- print the image with a border larger than your CP and trim it yourself.
- go to a professional printer with better quality control than Kinko's.

Silverwind · « **Reply #50 on:** January 02, 2003, 12:34:52 pm »

Quote from: Smittydc on January 02, 2003, 10:37:48 am

One thing I noticed while designing and printing my CP art that people doing these precise overlays may want to keep in mind: Kinko's may give you a runaround on exact printing. I took a .PDF file to them and then measured what they printed out -- it was off about 1/8" on each of the sides (not a lot, admittedly, but enough). They gave me some story about how their vinyl printer never printed things exactly right in both dimensions -- I pointed out that Adobe and the printer manufacturers have done a lot of work to ensure that didn't happen.

Advice from experience:
- take a tape measure with you when you pick up your printing.
- print the image with a border larger than your CP and trim it yourself.
- go to a professional printer with better quality control than Kinko's.

good advice.. I would be extremely upset if I paid money to get an exact printout.. and they essentially said "well, better luck next time"

motorfish · « **Reply #51 on:** January 02, 2003, 02:51:08 pm »

Dave_K.:

Actually, strangely enough, I didn't use any vectors while creating this image. It was all made from using the marquee selection tools, the Stroke command, and I used the bezier curves to achieve some of the srtaight diagonal lines.

What I did for this instance is since I had already drilled out the holes before I did the graphics, I went ahead and scanned in the plastic overlay after I had all of the holes drilled through it.

This gave me the exact dimensions of where the graphics needed to be. ( consequentialy, because of this, you'll notice that my graphics on the smaller control pannels are not symetrical, because they have slightly varying[sp?] distances between themselves. Live and learn I suppose )

from there, I measure out the footprints of the components and link those layers t the appropriate holes (ie, the left joystick hole to the left joystick footprint graphic, and so on...)

As far as time went, This one was kind of tough for me to nail a design I liked. My biggest problem was that since I had already drilled the holes, my graphics now had to work around the holes, rather than vice versa, which limited me to certian sizes and shapes. ( like for example, the boarder around the Player 2's contoler main circle graphic collides into the boarder for the emulation buttons. OOPS! Something I had to live with. )

Because of this, I spent about two and a half days on what should've been a two to three hour job. It was a lot of trial and error, making graphics, testing them, throwing them away, that sort of thing.

But in the end, I think it turned out ok for the space I had to work with.

motorfish · « **Reply #52 on:** January 02, 2003, 02:54:12 pm »

Smittydc:

Good advice indeed! I forgot to mention that I gave myself a one quarter inch border around the outside (extra black space) to compensate for possible shrinkage while printing. Can't be too carefull.

elfman12 · « **Reply #53 on:** January 02, 2003, 05:05:35 pm »

Quote from: motorfish on January 02, 2003, 02:54:12 pm

Good advice indeed! I forgot to mention that I gave myself a one quarter inch border around the outside (extra black space) to compensate for possible shrinkage while printing. Can't be too carefull.

Shrinkage? Yikes, shrinkage! We all hate that!

Silverwind · « **Reply #54 on:** January 02, 2003, 05:13:12 pm »

Quote from: elfman12 on January 02, 2003, 05:05:35 pm

Quote from: motorfish on January 02, 2003, 02:54:12 pm
Good advice indeed! I forgot to mention that I gave myself a one quarter inch border around the outside (extra black space) to compensate for possible shrinkage while printing. Can't be too carefull.

Shrinkage? Yikes, shrinkage! We all hate that!

cold shower eh? heheheh
is that sort of like bitter beer face?

sorry for a hair OT!

Now by printing a border around your artwork.. this might safeguard from some margin problems... but if they print slightly off scale... there isn't any help here is there?

Dave_K. · « **Reply #55 on:** January 03, 2003, 02:22:51 am »

Thanks for going through the details of how you made it motorfish. 3 days still sounds pretty damn fast to me

.

motorfish · « **Reply #56 on:** January 07, 2003, 03:47:51 pm »

Updated the Cab model:

JoeB · « **Reply #57 on:** January 09, 2003, 04:53:24 pm »

motorfish:

your original links for the info in the bazel are broken. Can you fix it, or if you don't mind, e-mail me the files. I really like your design A LOT!

leonki@rogers.com

Thanks!

hyiu · « **Reply #58 on:** January 10, 2003, 10:05:04 am »

I have been looking at your cab's design pic a bit and I have to say its VERY NICE !!!!

everything is on 1 panel.... but it seems well organized... very nice artwork on the control panel.....

but I have a stupid question.... is the pic more or less to ratio ?? cos it seems like its kinda short on the bottom half ?!?!

or are you planning on a sitting down while playing ??....

rhd · « **Reply #59 on:** January 10, 2003, 01:36:31 pm »

I would love to see the picture of the instructions on the bezel, but I can't seem to get the link to work. Your message referenced http://motorfish.homestead.com/files/bezel_art_copy.jpg but I get a page not found error.

Thanks,
RHD

Brax · « **Reply #60 on:** January 10, 2003, 05:45:54 pm »

Quote from: hyiu on January 10, 2003, 10:05:04 am

I have been looking at your cab's design pic a bit and I have to say its VERY NICE !!!!

everything is on 1 panel.... but it seems well organized... very nice artwork on the control panel.....

but I have a stupid question.... is the pic more or less to ratio ?? cos it seems like its kinda short on the bottom half ?!?!

or are you planning on a sitting down while playing ??....

It's a Japanese sit down model.

hyiu · « **Reply #61 on:** January 14, 2003, 10:50:37 am »

if its a sit down model....

then you might have to worry about the knee space....

you know... when you sit down.... your knee sticks out....

for a normal SF 6 button layout... it might be ok....

but your panel has soooo much stuffs.... like the 4 way is like more inside....
you might have a hard time reaching it.....

I'm also planning a sit down cab also.... (cos I don't want to stand for hours when playing... heee heee....)

and I currently planning a "cave in" part under the contrl panel so that I can sit comfortably when playing....

something that needs to keep in mind when doing sit down cab....

hope it helps....

jets · « **Reply #62 on:** January 30, 2003, 06:04:08 pm »

That cabinet looks very cool indeed. Very good work.

canardo · « **Reply #63 on:** February 05, 2003, 05:17:32 pm »

very nice cabinet given me a few ideas for mine which hopefully will be finished sometime soon maybe lol

Anonymously · « **Reply #64 on:** February 05, 2003, 06:21:02 pm »

Man! Those Blue T-molding Rocks!! Really matches with the bezel. I guess I will be using a Blue T-molding too. Sorry motorfish if my cabinet end up looking like yours

atog · « **Reply #65 on:** February 11, 2003, 04:56:07 pm »

Motofish forgot to explain to us that he is actually the little person who plays Mini Me in the Austin Powers movies.

motorfish · « **Reply #66 on:** February 18, 2003, 02:52:43 am »

Here's the pics of the old cabinet with the newly revamped graphics!

Also, I've added a tiny analog joystick near the bottom of the control panel which allows the User to navigate through all of the Windosw and MAME menus with full mouse controls (lft andr right click are buttons 1 and 2 Player One), so now the cabiner is completely mouse free!

Also, the Mame Classic cab is almost complete as well!

SirPoonga · « **Reply #67 on:** February 18, 2003, 04:04:24 am »

Very cool. so your analog joystick looks like microsofts:)

It's alot like the nipple on IBM thinkpads fornavigation?

SONIC · « **Reply #68 on:** February 18, 2003, 08:41:56 am »

Bloody hell that's some hell of a machine

Looks really nice all of it

For the Metal Slug4... how did any of you make it work? Got the rom, but MAME ain't showing it in the menu... any clues anyone?

Cheers!!!

motorfish · « **Reply #69 on:** February 18, 2003, 12:28:36 pm »

SirPoonga:

Exactly! That's what I was thinking when I put it in. It works just like the little bump thingy on notepad/laptop computers. I used the analog portion of a Wingman joypad, since the analog joystick board inside is only 3/4" X 1 1/2".

It's SO much more convienent than having to go for the mouse every time I want to change the configuration of a game. I suppose you COULD use it for analog games as well, if you really wanted to.

SONIC:

A friend of mine found a way to re-compile MAME so that KOF 2002 and Metal Slug will run. I have no idea how to do this. Try Nebula or NeoRage X emulators as well, to see if it's properly run the Metal Slug 4 ROM.

SirPoonga · « **Reply #70 on:** February 20, 2003, 12:35:45 am »

Yeah, you have to compile mslug4 into mame. There's a way to add it to nedula too. I suggest nebula for neogeo games as the performance is much better than mame. And if I remember memcards work in nebula too.

crashdmj · « **Reply #71 on:** February 20, 2003, 07:33:57 pm »

Hey motorfish can you make a page on how you did that little cursor/nipple thingy its cool and the most space effecient thing I have seen in awhile, i was going to have a trackball but your thing looks a lot cleaner and awesome. Oh and can I get a couple of closeups on your monitor bezel instructions cause I think they are awesome

cyberphox · « **Reply #72 on:** March 01, 2003, 01:51:39 pm »

How about an updated link to the bezel art motorfish?

Stein · « **Reply #73 on:** March 02, 2003, 06:27:53 pm »

very nice work! I can only imagine the hours and hours you must have poured into this cab. the bezel, the cp, the etc... just reeks of professionalism

cyberphox · « **Reply #74 on:** March 03, 2003, 01:45:51 pm »

Updated links to the bezel please!

CitznFish · « **Reply #75 on:** March 03, 2003, 04:41:38 pm »

from one fish to another...NICE JOB! I can only hope mine looks half as good. You should throw upa webpage somewhere, I'd love to see how you did this in detail, esp. the control panel overlay.

Cheers!

-CF

crashdmj · « **Reply #76 on:** March 09, 2003, 12:25:11 am »

Yo motorfish, any chance we can get a close up of your bezel art? Its awesome!!

CthulhuLuke · « **Reply #77 on:** March 11, 2003, 02:15:15 am »

Wow, very very nice finishing touches with the cursor and such. For those who want to see what he used, http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=3011497546&category=3677
I'm pretty sure at least that is it. That's definitely some quick thinking though by MotorFish. My only question is what kinda buttons are those lighter blue ones on the top right corner? Are they competitions or something, because they look different than the ones on the main 2 joysticks. And did you buy brand new rotary joysticks from Happs or something? Or did you fix up some old ones, and put the Super joystick on em?
-Good Stuff indeed
-CthulhuLuke

motorfish · « **Reply #78 on:** March 11, 2003, 01:08:51 pm »

Hello everyone!

Very sorry for the long delays in replying to these messages. To those who've emailed me:

I need a little more time to work on the control panel ideas you've given me. I haven't forgotten about, and I'm not ignoring you!

Here's a look at the new bezel artwork: (because of my limited bandwidth, I can only display these for a short time)

On the little blue buttons:

They are small momentary contact pushbuttons sold by Happ Controls, item number 60-1200-12. These are great, and are smaller versions of the regular button used in Japanese Aero City sit-at machines.

The rotarys are new Happ's joysticks.

crashdmj · « **Reply #79 on:** March 11, 2003, 02:44:37 pm »

Are you going to put up a site anytime soon I love the cab. Maybe put up a contruction site on how you got that cursor thingy?
Looks beautiful!


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Author Topic: MAME Cabinet Completed With Pics.*updated March 18* (Read 41701 times)

Author Topic: MAME Cabinet Completed With Pics.updated March 18 (Read 41701 times)