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I am looking for a 120mm slim fan for my bartop. I would like a few that are quiet. Any recommendations?
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Ok So i have an old Mortal Kombat Cabinet, the 25" WG K7401 in it is making a ticking sound. I really do not have the knowledge to fix it and have never soldered anything in my life. I do have a new cap kit for it, i had to have a $15 minimum when i bought a molex connector so i picked cap kit up to. Should i try and find someone to do fix it? I was just going to replace it with a 24 inch ACER lcd, or shouold i go bigger like a 26? The 24 is brand new and free, i would have to buy the 26. Would the difference be noticeable? Would i be better of trying to find a 25 inch crt TV to put in it? i would like to find something none widescreen in a 25 inch. Those who have wide …
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Hi guys, I am a newb to Custom Cabinets and HS and am looking for a little help.. I just purchased a custom Cabinet and would like to get artwork for it but after paying for the new Emu Computer and Cabinet I am pretty much in the dog house with the wifey.. So I cant really spend much on paying someone to do the designs for me.. I am looking for Sideart, Kick plate bezel area and control panel designs.. Can someone help me out, or point me to a good artist who could do the designs cheaply? Any help would be greatly appreciated.. Here is the cab:
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Acquired this beauty today for $130. Included the joysticks, buttons and the ipaq controller. Anyone have any idea what game cabinet this is? It is definitely and old arcade cabinet of some sort. Will be looking for a coin door because I don't want the gaping hole in the front. The only thing I am not crazy about are the 2 big round holes the previous owner cut in the sides. I need to figure out what I am going to do with those.
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Hello HyperSpin members, For starters I'd like to thank all the members of this great community. Without such passion and dedication to preserving the classics none of this would have been remotely possible! I salute you all!! Now I figured I'd share a special project a friend and I have been working on for well over a year now as we near final completion. This project, like all great and noble quests grew from a simple and humble beginning. It was pretty much discussed late one night around a table over food and drink - lots of food and drink - and sketched roughly on a paper napkin. "Wouldn't it be cool to build a full size virtual pinball table?" "Why not a…
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Now that I have the HyperSpin Pc up and running i decided to start a cabinet project. I purchased an original MK cabinet, the inside was redone and there is a jamma harness in there. The original 25inch monitor is still working and looks nice. My question is, can I use the original Mortal Kombat monitor and hook it up the the hyperspin PC. I think this is converter I might need to use to do it but I'm not sure. I believe what I have is an RGB CGA monitor, the RGB wires go to the jamma harness. Thanks for the help. Here is the cabinet.
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Hi everyone. I thought I would quickly introduce myself and my arcade before documenting my virtual pinball build. My name is Jim. I am a family man with 6 kids and a beautiful wife of 18 years.... My sweet wife let me build a star wars death star arcade a few years ago. I've had a great time filling it full of classics. Have a look...
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How would you go about making Custom Artwork for your CP. I have a machine already but its very plain. It is painted black and very boring to look at. I want to "JAZZ" it up a bit. I'm not very good with photoshop but i know enough to tumble about and get an ok/good end result. But i have no idea how you would line up the holes on the CP to match the artworks CP design. The only thing i can think of is too take a photo of the CP and work over the top of it so it acts like a template. Would this work or is their an easier way?
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Hey Guys since im still waitng for my PC im doing some stuff in PS on my girlfriends Eeepc (crap) im working on a dedicated MK CPO for a friend that i'm building from scratch in vector so it looks as close to the original as possible, when its done everybody on the forum can download the psd file to alter it to you needs, i still got alot to do but ill do my best on this thing. will keep you updated i got some more cpo design laying around and i will post all the psd files in the future for users do download Preview Original New 7 Button Layout
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I am looking for the best place for price and shipping to Canada for joysticks and buttons I am looking for Happ Competition 8-way joysticks in black and red as well Happ competition buttons in white, black, blue and red I am also looking for player 1 and 2 buttons in black. The shipping from the US and other countries is crazy to Canada. I am just looking for some places others have used for good success. Thanks
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Where is everyone buying their 4:3 monitors in the US? I would like a 19" 4:3 monitor I see some online at newegg and tigerdirect. I want to be able to go and look at it so I can make sure that the monitor will return to its last state when powered off and the monitor was on. Thanks
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What have others used for speakers in a bartop. There is limited room so I am asking for suggestions on what to use. Thanks
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Been done for a few weeks now, but once I kept testing Hyperspin more and more on my main PC, I realized how freaking cool some of the themes are that I originally didn't have on my older 145 ROM set, so I started all over with the newer set of ROMS and I just get more and more impressed with HyperSpin the more I tinker with it, and all the work that people have put into it, I tip my hat to all involved Here is my cabinet, It was a craigslist find for 80$, Aliens Game, I gutted it, and MAME'd it.
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Yep i have the bug! After finishing my Street fighter Project, http://www.hyperspin-fe.com/forum/showthread.php?t=11170&page=13 we decided things are better in pairs
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Here is a set of old school themed bartops. Q*bert and Donkey Kong. I put this video card in the video card in the Q*bert for pinball I will see if the extra ram makes a difference? http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814500255
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Well, I've finally gotten my cabinet to a point where I can show it off. It started off as a PGA Tour Golf Challenge Edition I purchased for $100 in great condition! Now it's turned into my custom "MVS". I've always loved the MVS logo and it does an apt job in describing the cabinet so that's what I've called it. NeoGeo purists will hate it I know Front: Marquee: Marquee designed in PhotoShop and printed by GameOnGrafix.com I must say FANTASTIC print job by those guys, pics do not do it justice Buttons: Happ Competition joyticks + Spectralite buttons from GroovyGameGear.com for the colors I decided to go with a NeoGeo/Xbox controller scheme. Unfortunate…
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I am getting back on to the construction side of my cabinet project http://bubbob.retro.me.uk/ after many months of playing and configuring. My next step is to get some artwork on my CP which isn't going to be straight forward as I have a removable/modular CP so it needs to be thought through and then protect it with some acrylic or lexan. A quick search on the internet brings up loads of results for UK online suppliers of acrylic sheets, I was just wondering if anyone would recommend any and their products or are they all very similar? Also I am using 3/4" mdf on my CP and would ideally like the thinnest layer of acrylic I can get away with. I have seen other posts su…
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So the only thing I still have maters is how to lock the control panel in place on Bartops The original Retrocade had a gap in base so you could get a screwdriver in but I didn't like that On the Princess Cade I screwed it from the bottom into side rails on the Control panel ...not pretty So how does everyone else do it? I don't want to leave a gap and I don't want to drill through the artwork
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Hey. Just planning out my first 2 player panel for my first cab. It's going to be running off an ipac2 and I was just trying to make sure I don't miss out any essential controls. Up to now I have.. Mame controls 6 buttons x2 Joystick x2 1/2 player start 1/2 coin Pause Esc Enter/select Should I look to set up keys with shift etc for stuff like Tab in Mame. Or genres/fave games in Hyperspin or am I over complicating it? What do you guys do?
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So I had some spare wood left over from a build and rather than with cut my standard Bartop shape copied and pasted from the plans that Mike gave me I went for something a little different I'm not sure if like it or not any thoughts ? Honest feedback always helpful Cheers
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Kind of jumping the gun on this, but I just placed the order for the side art, marquee and CPO and figured I'd share. Long way from being done, but the idea for this project was to build from scratch a one player Mortal Kombat II bartop cab that looks like a full-sized stand up with the bottom chopped off. Most bartops are really wide, but I wanted one that matched an original MKII cab, so I used an original MK cab to get the dimensions right. If you remove the bottom section (below the CP), an old-school MK cab would be 39" tall, so I scaled it down to 52.5% vertically and 54% horizontally to accommodate a 15" 4:3 monitor. For the side art, I had to heavily modify th…
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Hi guys and nice to meet you! Just started designing and building my first (and most possibly only) a full-scale arcade cabinet a few weeks ago. My GF currently designs the cabinet (full-scale) in Autocad based on koenigs plans, with a few tweaks here and there. Now since I'm a noobie in DIY arcade cabinets, I would like to share my project plan, so maybe it can help others. I have split the project in 5 categories: 1. PC Hardware and peripherals (Intel Q9400 Quad-Core / 4GB RAM / SSD 128GB / Nvidia 210) <- Done (from previous PC parts) 2. Software choice and setup (HyperSpin, Roms, Configurations) <- Done 3. Cabinet electronics (sound, controllers, 19 inch 4…
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I'm building a custom control panel out of 3/4" MDF. What joysticks do you guys use when you bottom mount and don't use a router? I looked at a couple from Happ but they would be short once you take 3/4" off to account for the bottom mount. I don't have access to a router so that isn't an option. I'm looking for a bat top with 4/8 way switching if possible. Thanks all!
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Hello everyone! I'm looking to get a wood grain finished 3 sided cab kit. Bascially exactly what Arcade Depot sells, but it appears that thier site has been down for sometime, according to thier home page. Do you guys know where I might be able to find something similar, in the $300-$400 range? NorthCoast has a nice unit, but it only comes in black...
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I am building a hyper-spin cabinet with no monitor, just an hdmi out to mount to any tv that i choose. One thing i worry about is my base doesnt move much its fairly stead but, when we play an intense game of street fighter the base does wobble a bit. Now, what i am wondering is if my harddrive is mounted in the base do you guys think there will be any damage or data loss? ive considered going with a 2.5 harddrive because they are meant to be moved around alot more ( laptop style). or does any one know of any way to help reduce the chance of damage?
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