My "Grail" has Arrived!!! (well, partially)
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rainman154
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Yeah, but WHO else has that game. That's pretty unique. I should look it up to see what the game play is like.
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It's ALIVE!!! At least I know the setup works. Now I just need to install it all into the cab. The monitor works which is good. Needs some serious degaussing and I may need to "turn" it a bit as it is sitting a tiny bit crooked. But I'll get to that.
Oh question... the two "degaussing" wires that come off of the Nanao chassis (the red ones). I assume at one point they went to a switch. Can I just run them to any push-button switch or do they need to be wired some other way?
Oh question... the two "degaussing" wires that come off of the Nanao chassis (the red ones). I assume at one point they went to a switch. Can I just run them to any push-button switch or do they need to be wired some other way?
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And for the record, my wife wasn't too pleased that I decided to spread this out across the bedroom floor to test it.
Awesome! Dont they all just hate us and our hobby!?!
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Haha... it's okay if she can't see it.
At least in the two recent pics from tonight it is spread out in the basement. There are a couple other parts to the whole setup to the left of the 1st picture (from today's post) so it's quite a mess right now. Next up is mounting all of the components to boards inside the cab (so I don't have to drill into the metal base), cleaning up the wiring, etc.
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Good call!
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Alright, why not... to keep it all straight in my head here is my to do list for this game.
In no particular order...
-Cut board(s) to fit bottom of the cab and figure out how to bolt them down.
-Play Tetris with the dozen parts that I somehow need to fit into the bottom of the cab.
-"Clean up" wiring using lots of zip ties to get rid of the insane mess of wires.
-Install the monitor into cab.
-Degauss the hell out of the monitor.
-Get monitor color, size, etc perfect.
-Go to hardware store to get all new bolts to replace the rusted ones I currently have.
-Take instruction card to get scanned so I can create a custom card as the one I have doesn't fit the instruction card spot on this cab. Figure out where to have this new card printed.
(delay in thought process as we're watching Daniel Tosh standup... hilarious)
-Find a front access door for the cab.
-Find the rubber "guard" that goes between the banana controller and the cp so I can reinstall the banana joystick.
(do you know who loves to get fisted?... ... ... sock puppets)
-Put entire cab back together
-Play the game until my 4 year old son takes over... he can't wait for this game to be finished.
K, need to stop typing. I'll probably just post here again in 6 months when I finally get everything finished.
In no particular order...
-Cut board(s) to fit bottom of the cab and figure out how to bolt them down.
-Play Tetris with the dozen parts that I somehow need to fit into the bottom of the cab.
-"Clean up" wiring using lots of zip ties to get rid of the insane mess of wires.
-Install the monitor into cab.
-Degauss the hell out of the monitor.
-Get monitor color, size, etc perfect.
-Go to hardware store to get all new bolts to replace the rusted ones I currently have.
-Take instruction card to get scanned so I can create a custom card as the one I have doesn't fit the instruction card spot on this cab. Figure out where to have this new card printed.
(delay in thought process as we're watching Daniel Tosh standup... hilarious)
-Find a front access door for the cab.
-Find the rubber "guard" that goes between the banana controller and the cp so I can reinstall the banana joystick.
(do you know who loves to get fisted?... ... ... sock puppets)
-Put entire cab back together
-Play the game until my 4 year old son takes over... he can't wait for this game to be finished.
K, need to stop typing. I'll probably just post here again in 6 months when I finally get everything finished.
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