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Apparently nobody thinks this is as cool as I do.
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I think it's very cool. I may put some up on the walls of my bedroom! Tomorrow IS Valentine's Day.
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Control Panel almost done!
So I finally got to work on the control panel for this cabinet today.
I had cut the "wood" and used Super 77 to glue the aluminum flashing to the wood. Then I screwed the florescent red plexi to the panel, and used a router bit to cut the aluminum and plexi to the same shape as the "wood"
Then I drilled the holes with a hole saw. I used the standard Capcom drill template, and just added 4 extra holes:
Then I removed the plexi and peeled off the protective paper:
Here they are together under regular light:
Black Light:
So I finally got to work on the control panel for this cabinet today.
I had cut the "wood" and used Super 77 to glue the aluminum flashing to the wood. Then I screwed the florescent red plexi to the panel, and used a router bit to cut the aluminum and plexi to the same shape as the "wood"
Then I drilled the holes with a hole saw. I used the standard Capcom drill template, and just added 4 extra holes:
Then I removed the plexi and peeled off the protective paper:
Here they are together under regular light:
Black Light:
how many f'n projects do you have going!?
i'm questioning if i have the time and money for two right now! lol (j/k always time and money for arcade games).
i'm questioning if i have the time and money for two right now! lol (j/k always time and money for arcade games).
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Another shot:
Buttons and joys installed, I still need to cut the back of the panel where the joys go so that wood isn't so thick around them.
You get a cool halo effect around the buttons, it is much more dramatic in person:
Blacklight the plastic in the IL buttons must come from different batches, some respond to black light more than others:
Buttons and joys installed, I still need to cut the back of the panel where the joys go so that wood isn't so thick around them.
You get a cool halo effect around the buttons, it is much more dramatic in person:
Blacklight the plastic in the IL buttons must come from different batches, some respond to black light more than others:
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More photos
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Too many!
- Finish this cabinet for my Xbox 360
- I need to cap the sound board on my MK1
- Fix the shutdown on the monitor in my Radikal Bikers
- Fix the communiations in the Baby Pac and install new rubber
- completely restore the Galaxian
- Figure out where I am going to put the Galaga '88
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Woops and I forgot the Virtual Boy cabinet too.
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Video Added:
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Funny I find myself working on this before everything else! I guess I just want it out of the way. Right now I am finishing painting the CP box. Once the cabinet is all together, all is left is to wire up the controls. Which is already half done.
Mounting up the 27" VGA was a hurdle, but then it just came together simply and easily. I just had to unbolt the top bracket on the monitor frame, removed the top mount bar in the cabinet, screw in two metal L brackets to the inside sides of the cabinet, and slide the monitor in with its frame. Then I used 4 self drilling screws to screw the frame to the L brackets.
I also installed the white t-molding on the top half of the cabinet.
Mounting up the 27" VGA was a hurdle, but then it just came together simply and easily. I just had to unbolt the top bracket on the monitor frame, removed the top mount bar in the cabinet, screw in two metal L brackets to the inside sides of the cabinet, and slide the monitor in with its frame. Then I used 4 self drilling screws to screw the frame to the L brackets.
I also installed the white t-molding on the top half of the cabinet.
got any pics of cramming that 27" in there? I like the white molding btw nice contrast in color.
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I will take a few and post them, for now you can see this video of cramming the same type of monitor into a Dynamo HS-5 which is much narrower. I had to cut the monitor frame to get it in and replace the wood rails in the cabinet.
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The cabinet is mostly done
Got it together, there are a few things left to do like patch the cabinet up by the marquee, and finish the wiring, trivial stuff.
Got it together, there are a few things left to do like patch the cabinet up by the marquee, and finish the wiring, trivial stuff.
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Looks nice.
Hey Man, really like the project..its exactly what I want to do! I already have something similar but its more temporary as i'm limited with space. I actually have a showcase cabinet with a large 4 player mame control panel (slikstik) that I wired xbox360 controllers to. I mounted an LCD on the wall and built my own monitor stand for it so it kinda goes with the podium. This is the cabinet except in the attached youtube video I have a faceplate over the LCD so its 4:3..it was originally running mame games. Since then I stuck a 360 in there and run everything off of the hard drive.. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iA639iWQEXs
So now its a 32" lcd monitor with black vinyl wrapped around it. I personally think its really ugly and want to get a Simpsons style cab like yours and make it a little more prettier. Probably lose the control panel unless I can easily mount it in there. Only hesitation is how does the xbox 360 look on a 4:3 TV monitor? I really only have a bunch of fighter games on there anyways so maybe it makes sense to do 4x3?
So now its a 32" lcd monitor with black vinyl wrapped around it. I personally think its really ugly and want to get a Simpsons style cab like yours and make it a little more prettier. Probably lose the control panel unless I can easily mount it in there. Only hesitation is how does the xbox 360 look on a 4:3 TV monitor? I really only have a bunch of fighter games on there anyways so maybe it makes sense to do 4x3?
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Yours is awesome! the XBOX 360 looks OK on a 4:3 VGA monitor, but would look much better on a widescreen HD TV.
You really think so? For some reason I don't really like it as is...The podium part is blatently fake haha. I'm thinking i'm either going to go with a cabinet like yours or get a the back of a showcase cabinet and retrofit the LCD monitor in there. I have the 360 controllers tapped into my mame control panel right now but only have 2 controllers hooked up so its a bit of a waste. I'll take some pics of it now with the faceplate off..I donno maybe I should just leave it as is. I'm thinking maybe I should ad some black fake tmolding to the monitor section so it alteast matches the podium haha
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IT is hard to see fault in the video, it looks like a LCD showcase cabinet. The buttons look a little far apart on the control panel, but that is probably just an illusion from the artwork.
yea the control panel is a slikstik I bought from someone on BYOAC..yea its an illusion all works good. I'm torn because I know it really doesn't look like a real showcase but at the same time a showcase takes up double the space..and there is no way i'm sticking that in our living room haha. I really like the cabinet you put together, and my original plan was to put all of my 90s style games in a konami cabinet. Since I can really only fit one cabinet in my place (not counting my cocktail cab haha) i'm thinking i'll just stay with my 360. I guess my best bet is to just keep it as is and fix up the monitor stand so it looks a little more real. You think if I do Tmolding on that I should do it so the tmolding faces to the sides, or faces the front where you stand I can pretty much do either, I would just cut slits in the wood to keep it in place. In the meantime i'm keeping my eyes open for a cabinet like yours..can store it at my parents place in NJ until I move out to the suburbs hah.
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