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Yeah looks the biz!
I'll hopefully get a bit done on my project later.
Got a bit done in work today too..........ha ha ha

CosmicSmash

It's great seeing new life injected into the older cabs, keep it up:)

MrVestek

Any ideas on something can could be used as a decent enough gun holster for the topgun?

Thanks.

Optimus Prime

Tetris Cab.. before the face lift!




And.. Done!





Now.. the space invaders cocktail table!

Got a good bit done last night,
Its now playable!

Got the CP done and wired.
All I need is some nice carriage bolts for the stick.



Buttons are pritty much the same as the originals so......


Dont know what I think of the lights!
kinda 50/50 but I'll add a switch anyway.

All thats left is the glass which I have coming tomorrow,
reassemble the coin door and maybe set it for 20 cent
and tidy the wiring.:D

MrVestek

Well now that I have a fiancé I'm sure we'll start talking about buying a house soon (after the wedding of course).

When all is said and done the first thing I'm purchasing is a Street Fighter II - Champion Edition cab. I don't care weather she likes it or not.

Big words Achilles
lets see if your man enough

CiDeRmAn

urbanledge wrote: »

Big words Achilles
lets see if your man enough

Expect to hear the sound of begging and man tears at some time in the future, not a great way to make an impression on ones new neighbours though....

MrVestek

CiDeRmAn wrote: »

Expect to hear the sound of begging and man tears at some time in the future, not a great way to make an impression on ones new neighbours though....

I don't cry tears I cry acid. ACID MAN TEARS.

Just ran the numbers and I reckon that cab has cost me 320 all in!
not bad I reckon.
The 60-1 PCB was 50 alone.

If I was to sell it what do you think it would be worth?
Not that I am.
Im going to hang onto it in my garage for a while or maybe get my ma to "look after it"

unless something sexy comes up for sale.........

CosmicSmash

urbanledge wrote: »

Big words Achilles
lets see if your man enough

Sure don't mind him, he's all talk.:pac:

o1s1n

Girlfriend was laminating a load of stuff today (ah, the prep work of a teacher getting ready to return to the class after the summer holidays!) and I wanted to get in on the act as it looked oddly fun - but what to laminate?

Then I got the idea of printing out arcade flyers and laminating them to put in my cab marquees. They came out better than expected!

o1s1n

Once you start, you really can't stop :pac:

CiDeRmAn

Yeah but....
That can't possibly make you happy....
Fecker!

o1s1n

Hey now, you have an AWSD, get a marquee holder made up by Urbanledge and start printing artwork

TechnoFreek

Oisin, where are you getting the images to print?

Dr Bob

still working on the cab..its a learning experience .replaced the faded, cracked and partially missing edging with some new ones.(no T molding on this baby!).Downside is I had to use white instead of the silver/white original ..and its still a bit rough(need to sand down the sides a bit more tommorrow.Still it looks a bit cleaner now
original

New



May pull it all off and redo it if I can get something closer to the original.
Still have to put perspex/Decals on teh cp , and I've been toying with the idea of having a monitor on a shelf above to display Marquees/2nd screens...

o1s1n

TechnoFreek wrote: »

Oisin, where are you getting the images to print?

Here you go, they have loads. All printable quality too

http://flyers.arcade-museum.com/

Dr Bob wrote: »

still working on the cab...

Looks like you're having good fun with that cab, it's really coming along nicely.

Nice choice of game too :pac:

TechnoFreek

Thanks oisin. So you're just printing them to standard a4 paper on a basic colour printer?

Or are you wasting a load of ink on photo quality paper?

CiDeRmAn

That's incredible, well done Bob-a-roony, very nice.
You still have the less well preserved brother of this cab, don't you....

o1s1n

Basic Epson printer to an A4 page (half the A4 page, A5 size). Then put them in a lamination sheet and send it through a laminator. The lamination sheets seem to make the colours more vivid for some reason.

TechnoFreek

o1s1n wrote: »

Basic Epson printer to an A4 page (half the A4 page, A5 size). Then put them in a lamination sheet and send it through a laminator. The lamination sheets seem to make the colours more vivid for some reason.

Stupid alert, but how do I set the photo to print to half the a4 sheet?

Myrddin

CiDeRmAn wrote: »

That's incredible, well done Bob-a-roony, very nice.
You still have the less well preserved brother of this cab, don't you....

Nah the other one Bob has is the better one. Cracking job Bob, well done

o1s1n

TechnoFreek wrote: »

Stupid alert, but how do I set the photo to print to half the a4 sheet?

Well on my computer (Windows 7) right click the image, press print and you get this



Choose 13x18cm

Dr Bob

EnterNow wrote: »

Nah the other one Bob has is the better one. Cracking job Bob, well done

yup.Still sitting in my mams gagrage waiting to be Jamma'd!
The MAME one is the one that had the water damage

CiDeRmAn

Wow, I'm suitably stunned!
Had I access to one of those I may have forgone the AWSD!

Dude111

o1s1n wrote:

Once you start, you really can't stop

No its not easy too!!

Games of the early 80s are QUITE FUN and pleasing!!

TechnoFreek

In cork for a few days.

Any arcades in kinsale?

o1s1n

Love those Raiden flyers so much in my cab that I decided to make some more.

Really going to try and make an effort to change them when I put a new game in



Also realized that the Neo Geo ones fit in Neo mini boxes! Have a feeling now I'm going to end up printing one out for every game



Ibara also fits in nicely

Casey120

When I change the game in my cabs I usually put the right marquee in the holder :P
I have some A4 flyers also and a frame on the wall next to my cabs that I change sometimes