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Hi Guys Just wanna show you my artwork project for my Wolfcade bartop, tell me what you think
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Hi guys, I'm looking at getting a reproduction Nintendo cabinet made up and are going to go for Mario vs Donkey Kong theme. I'm just after some artwork advice as I'm having trouble deciding on a marquee and looking for suggestions and or opinions, especially any from the skilled artists on this forum. Here's a rough render at what I'm doing: Here are some marquee options: White background. Red background. Red and orange stripe background. Red, white and orange stripe background. Orange fading into red background. Red into orange and back to red again. What marquee do you like? I also added a fireball in the last two marquees, should I keep the fi…
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Hi Guys I have a problem, i have already finnished my control panal and a persplex plate on top, now i want to design a vinyl to sticker under it. Which programs do you guys use to design, i have tried photoshop and Illustrator but the main issue is to place the holes for the buttons in these programs. I am used to work with Autocad which is a piece of cake to get the right measurements (x,y,x) But in both these prgrammams its a nightmare to work with the rulers instead of entering coordinates. Who can advice me the best and easy to use programm I want to send this design to some sticker supplier in the Netherlands and make this Thanks in advance guys Grtz Michel
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So about a year ago I completed my Retrocade and then moved onto the next projects I just wondered what everyone's completed projects are doing now I'm hoping you still play them? What condition are they in? My retrocade is still used weekly I took it to a tattoo studio when a friend of mine was getting a lot of work and it went down really well Of course I'm still tweaking it I have added saved high scores and trying to figure a delay bug The control panel has a dink but still looks ok And that plexi plastic has seen better days I had to swap a few broken buttons over because I went down the cheap button root maybe I'll swap them over fur some better ones if …
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Hey guys, Ive just finished building up my cab but one thing that I just cant get right is the screen surrounds. I have purchased really thick paper, painted it black and stuck it on with double sided tape but it just doesnt look right plus one of the edges started peeling off already.... So I was just wondering what do you guys use/have used in your previous builds. Thanks!!!
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Hi Guys It's been a while but i have made some alterations to my bartop (new colour and am busy for a new theme) I am also trying to upgrade the speaker system but i am still not satticfied, i am now using some pc speakers with the amplifier from that set (2.0) The sound is not nice, no lows and only high sounds. I have no room for a sub so i was wondering how you guys solved this issue.
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Hi there. I've been dreaming of building my own hyperspin cabinet, and after setting up hyperspin, I have no idea what to do next. I've been using a usb fight stick while it is on my pc but I'll be using the I-Pac for the build. Should my next thing after setting up hyperspin be to buy all my buttons, coin mech abd I-Pac to set up controls? The more I do, the more I feel swamped, I'm doing this alone for the first time and have no idea what I am doing essentially. So really, what I am asking is, I have hyperspin wheels and games set up, what do I do next? Sent from my HTC_PN071 using Tapatalk
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Hi guys i just build my control panel for arcade cab and i have problem with brand new Ipac2. My panel have 2x joystick + 2x8 buttons + 4 additional buttons (coins,exit,enter,pause) everything working fine except "enter".... key kod info ipac 1a slot=" p " this working correct ipac 1b slot= "enter" but is also "p" letter wtf??? tested on two Pc the same problem. Ipac2 faulty???? on the "shift mode" enter working fine (P1+left) but this is not solution... Anyone know how resolve this problem... or return ipac as faulty???
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Hey guys, just a quick one really. I want to plan out my control panel before I start my first build. I'd like to sketch it out on the PC first to check I'm happy with button positions etc.. What program to people use to draw the template to scale? Some kind of 2D cad prog? I want to set up a document the correct size and position correct size elements etc on it.... Any help appreciated? Ta, Paul
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I built a cab a few years ago and it contained about 1TB of Hyperspin,i sold my cabinet a while back and my HDD was badly damaged,i am now needing to look into starting this up again,but its breaking my heart having to redo all this again,it took me about a year of help from the community and subscription to emumovies etc to get into it.....anyways, how big is your HDD setup nowadays guys? I didn't have GC/PS or Dreamcast at the time but I heard they are hefty in size. if there are any UK guys here that could help me in hardware stores they purchased parts from etc I would appreciate it thanks
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Hi Guys, Does anyone have plans for a street fighter iv joystick plans something similar to Madcatz tournament edition or similar. I'm planning to get one cut out and made on a CNC but needs some plans and dimensions. Has anyone got any plans they can share or something i can use as a base?
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I have been talking about building a cabinet for years and finally have started. I will be building a 4 player control panel style that hooks up to any TV with an HDMI cable. One cool thing about my cabinet is that I designed my own controller. I want to be able to light all my buttons and joysticks with an RGB LED and configure my buttons and joysticks as keyboard inputs, mouse inputs or joystick inputs but there was no controller that could do everything an it would have cost over $250 to get what I wanted and required 5+ circuit boards. I am an Electronics Engineer so I said screw it and I designed my own! So the Howler Controller was born: Here are what the specs W…
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Hey guys, I am currently in the process of building my pedestal cabinet which is similar to http://funcoamusements.com/Arcade-Cabinets/FunGlo-V3 but I am making the sides solid one piece. I have decided to go with chrome T-moulding, the problem that I have ran into is the art for the cabinet. I have no clue what art would go good with this. I'm basically looking for some type of generic artwork that would go good for the two sides of the cabinet and I am probably gonna run a hyperspin logo down the middle sides. If you have any input on what I should do I would much appreciate it. I plan on sticking to a black paint job to go with the chrome T-moulding.
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hello fellow builders! well my story goes like this: i always wanted to build a gun arcade and not like the standard upright cabinet size one, but the really giant ones like time crisis two player or ghost squad size. so i got my hands on a broken Gunman wars arcade and started from there, now i have a 50 inch plasma which fits perfect inside, 2 modified terminator machine guns (the rail guns) and two lightguns from Arcadeguns.com. the pc i am going to leave for last because i want to build a powerful gaming computer and because the longer i wait the cheaper the parts get, but i want to get started on the cabinet. so here is my reason for posting this: here is some concep…
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I am Building My Kids There 1st Arcade Cabinet with a 42inch LED all with only a Jigsaw and a cordless Drill lol
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first off, WOW dam, that's nice. Secondly I had some hardware questions. what are you using in the EMS topgun, was that a mod of your own or, was it a kit purchased? Like the hidden driving game set up under 1:34. what was the hardware use? and just in general what was the system specs on that bad boy? Any build pics? Again nice cab.
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Hello Arcade Enthusiasts!!! About me: I currently work as a IT Infrastructure Support Specialist and have always wanted to re-live those nostalgic memories of of 8bit and 16bit gaming.. I always wanted an arcade cabinet but never knew which game to get and where I could find space to put it. I then decided one night whilst playing Ghouls and Ghosts on a terrible laptop that couldn't do much more, to Google building my own cabinet. It was there and then when I came across HyperSpin I wanted nothing more than to start a project to build my very own multiplatform Cab. What I've done: I saw a lot of people on here buy Bar-top cabinet's or build Bar-top cabinets and later …
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Well as some of you may know I just recently finished my Nintendo Popeye cabinet, which turned out fantastic. So it seemed I had half a sheet of wood left and decided since my kids love my cabinets so much I'd make them a bartop for them to play on. I looked around the web got some sizes and started going at it, so far so good. It has only been like 4 days and I just got the monitor mounted and the marquee plexi cut. My next steps are painting it and ordering some nice t-molding and art work for it. Here is the first picture I well continue to add progress pictures and updates as I can Remounted the monitor today as horizontal instead, think it well work out bette…
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Ever since I was playing TMNT with my friends in the local arcade it has been a childhood wish to own my own arcade machine. Now after many years I have found the time to build one. In this post I will expand on the build process. Step 1 – Custom design in Sketchup Before actually building anything I started work on the cabinet design. Of course I have been influenced by many designs freely available on the internet. None of them seemed fit for my purpose so I made my own from scratch loosely based on a few other designs. What seemed stange to me in most of the designs found on the web was that the side panels were very flimsy. Most builders used two panels of MDF to c…
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did this for a client who has one of those icade's (for the ipad) Click below.
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I am looking to mount a fan in the bottom of the cabinet to blow on my video cards to keep them cool. I have 2 GTX 670 cards in SLI and I want to make sure they stay cool. What fan would be good but not too big? Would be great to be able to mount it somewhere in there. Thanks
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First off I need to throw out some thanks to a few people before I get into it. Winsor Plywood for their free rough-cuts and great prices. (Perfect cuts I must add) MemoryExpress for their computer parts that work! PladiumStore for a one stop shop for all my parts (Canadian) Home Depot for everything else! My dad for his help! My best friend Dave for his guidance when I was frustrated. Last but not least, hyperspin forums for all the information and helpful users. Well it's been a long 3 weeks or so! I started this build Canada Day weekend. I based my build off of the cabinet plans ridicrick included in his origonal post (HERE) I had to make some changes as I w…
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Hello pinball fans! I like to join your fantastic club of "happy pinball cab owners" Before starting the woodwork I am looking for the last piece of information... I learned that a "samsung UE46F6000" will be a good choice for the 46" playfield 1) Do you know if the bezel is different between UE46F6470 and UE46F6170???? At "amazon[dot]de" it looks different than at "samsung[dot]de". Is this true? Or is it only the plastic-case ??? Or is the "inner" display the same measurement at all samsung 6xxx ????? --> Maybe one type fits better into the cab without decasing... (and there is no hardware dealer around...) 2) And the dimensions of a widebody lockdown ba…
Last reply by launch_14, -
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Hey Everyone, I'm finally starting on my first Mame cab. and thought I would show a couple of Pic of my work (wood restoration, lol). I knocked out bottom and back to put new pieces. Planning on a recessed floor and adding casters. Just starting and hopefully I can get most of it done before January 18, 2013.Got a baby girl coming. If not no biggie just will take my time.
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Hi ,i have the opportunity to buy a video wizard jamma arcade and have a spare older laptop with ATI mobility graphics build in,it has vga and svideo outputs on the back of the laptop and the laptop can run anything from mame,n64,psx and saturn so i could use it as a side project along with my media centre build of hyperspin. Should i use the laptop display,or a vga pc monitor or use the arcade screen that is fully working with no problems ? and what would be the best hook up from the laptop to the arcade screen,svideo or vga + converter ,also what converter would i be looking for as i have no idea Also ,this is a picture of the cab but i really don't like the flat …
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