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Written by Maxi
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Wednesday, 05 January 2011 12:14 |
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Now on to the physical cabinet itself, there has been a fair few changes but nothing dramatic thus far. This most visual improvement has to be in the above image, the marquee has finally been custom made after many of moons with the generic defender logo. To make this awesome marquee (haha) I just downloaded various video game sprites from the interwebs and make a collage of game characters in Photoshop, added some text with some fancy lines and I'm done. Keep reading for a download link to the Photoshop file.
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Last Updated on Wednesday, 05 January 2011 16:25 |
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Monday, 13 April 2009 01:00 |
 Not a huge amount of progress as not much needs to be done really apart from the software side of things but here's a little update for you all. I've fixed the front draw which fell off during the cabinet's second coat of coloured paint and I've added some cardboard to go around the monitor so you cannot see it through the plexi-glass. After playing on the cabinet for a few hours it tends to get a bit painful on the legs so I went about buying myself 2 awesome barstools (see the images below). I've not had any problems with the unit yet and I'm really impressed on how well the speakers work considering they were dirt cheap ones from Argos, I think the cabinet might be amplifying the bass slightly but it still sounds awesome! There isn't much left to be done apart from the graphical side of things such as some stickers and my desperate search for a hi-res Marquee. I've setup the front-end of the cabinet slightly using Hyperspin but I need to download the game themes and find some extra space on my HDDs for extra roms. For now check out the following pictures and I will keep you all updated: |
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Last Updated on Monday, 13 April 2009 15:30 |
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Sunday, 12 April 2009 01:00 |
 Not too much to say in this article as it's fairly outdated now (by a month) and it would be as fun as watching the paint dry itself! I'll just go over some of the key changes and issues I had while finally giving my arcade cabinet some well deserved paint. First off before I gave it some colour I drilled 2 holes either side of the cabinet to act as my "pinball holes" and then when about sanding certain areas down such as these holes so you wouldn't get a splinter while trying to push the buttons. One of the big issues I had was that the shelve to hold the x-arcade stick was a little too low so the sides were casuing the stick to float slightly and slide around in the unit, after a good hour of sanding I finally finished and it was ready to get painted... again. I touched up some of the areas with the base coat again and some of the areas I missed before such as the bottom part of the marquee box, after that my unit finally got some colour! I was a bit worried after the first coat as it dried extremely streaky but after the second coat it looked fantastic, a little bare but still it looks great. Check out the picture after the break. |
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Last Updated on Monday, 13 April 2009 00:15 |
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Written by Maxi
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Friday, 13 March 2009 01:00 |
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Just a short article showing off some pictures of my newly painted arcade cabinet. There is still a fair amount of work to do software wise and a few things that need fixing/adjusting physically but the pictures basically show that the arcade is fully usable and great fun! I've only been working on the MAME cabinet for about 3 weeks and I'm still amazed in how fast it has all been built up. Well I'm really impressed on how it looks so far and how well everything has gone, I will keep updating my website with new articles about how the build is going but for now here are some awesome pictures: |
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Last Updated on Monday, 31 August 2009 14:43 |
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