My Galaga cabaret build/resto

[toolguy]

All painted & decaled.

Power brick all wired, 9 and 12 volt power supplies in place. Need to wire the CP still and install the new CP OL.

The smaller board is a sound board with amp for the sound of course, since the TV's volume stays set, I wanted a way to increase and decrease it. This amp had two speakers and was from an old computer desk top speaker system, perfect for this. It gets the sound signal from the TV's speaker.

Pic of the coin door stripped of everything that was not needed, giving it a nice clean look. I kept the coin mechs and set them to always reject in case someone puts in a coin, I did not want a coin to fall inside and possibly short something.

 

[mcandrewsoun]

Where did you get the scaled down artwork?

 

[toolguy]

Where did you get the scaled down artwork?

I got all from Andys80s here in this thread. http://forums.arcade-museum.com/showthread.php?t=152457&highlight=galaga+dimensions

I IM'ed him the other day and he's not responded yet, in fact he'snot been here lately. I hope everything's alright with him...

 

[toolguy]

Finally, it's done! Not sure if I completely like the white front. I chose to go with the white after a suggestion that the flyer has the full sized machine with it, why not be different and do that since the production machines never had it. So I did...

What you do all think about the white front?

I used 5 LEDs behind the marquee using the original light socket panel and it glows like it much better then the standard bulbs. Plus the LEDs will def help keep the 30 year old marquee going for another 30 years with pretty much no heat. And I used orange T-molding to make it pop since I've seen neon green and blue used, I wanted to be different. There's orange in all the graphics on the machine, so it does blend nicely.

 

[toolguy]

More and final pic of the electronics.

It's wired for two players using of course the one stick. I did not need any diode to wire the two controllers to the one stick, the Nintendo blocks the signal from traveling back down the other controllers wires when the opposite controller is live. I did have to match the wires from controller to controller and side to side for the left and right movements in order to make it work.

Thanks to Andys80's for getting me the dimensions to build the machine too!

 

[YODAinMN]

Looks nice and I dig the white front. The only thing that's really bugging me allot is the horizontal monitor playing Galaga vertically-- too distracting in my book. Looks good otherwise!

 

[toolguy]

Looks nice and I dig the white front. The only thing that's really bugging me allot is the horizontal monitor playing Galaga vertically-- too distracting in my book. Looks good otherwise!

Thanks!

Yes I wished I could have duplicated that myself... However, using the monitor like I did because I had to, made for a nice clean flat back, not the huge bulbous cut out that was needed for the original.