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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…
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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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Good Day I am looking for thoughts, tips and recommendations for putting the finishing touches on my hyperspin cabinet. A few things to keep in mind: I have a 16 button hyperspin cabinet, stereo sound, Core2Duo with geforce 250, wireless card, Running the latest version of Hyperspin/Hyperlaunch. I have all the themes/art/and the wheels look pretty good. Hyperspin starts up automatically and explorer doesn't load, and it auto logs in. Note: Shutdown script doesn't work (would love some help with this) I'd love for the system to shut down when exiting HS Any thoughts on normalizing volumes (seems the some mame games are louder/softer then others, normalizing th…
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Wanted to share my first cabinet build with everyone now that it's near finished. When I designed the cabinet, I wanted to create something that was a sit-down style cabinet for long hours of play, but without the usual Japanese plastic look that usually is associated with that genre. Instead I wanted something that used t-molding like the classic cabinets of my childhood, and I settled on chrome and black after seeing a similar color scheme somewhere in my Googles. It has a manually rotating 24" LED monitor for optimal viewing of horizontal and vertical games, and it's a touchscreen for use with some some casino & slot games I have. There's a second 15" USB-pow…
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hi i am new to all this but really interested in attempting to build a bartop arcade.... 1 thing that is playing on my mind is mounting a monitor... do u need to remove the bezel for it to look right? thank you
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Hi all, Well firstly a massive thanks to the whole community here for this excellent front end software and for all the contributors. Without your efforts I wouldnt have my own cab. Basically I have a 4 player StreetFighter themed cab, the cab was constructed by Turnarcades, the controls are from Ultimarc and the whole thing was set up by me. The PC is an old P4 HT 3gHz, 2.5gb RAM (400 mhz I think) with a 1gb Geforce GT210 with a 24" Acer HD LCD TFT. It runs Hyperspin pretty well on medium settings but bogs down with advanced graphical functions. But all the emulators run spot on. In the fullness of time I intend to add lightgun and up the motherboard to at least a dual…
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Hi guys, Today i'm creating my console panel and I still have some decisions to make. I'm using a mini-pac and I'm afraid of having not enough connections to create my panel since it only allows 32 wires: 2 joysticks = 4 x 2 = 8 connections 7 buttons = 7 x 2 = 14 connections 2 flipper buttons = 2 connections Player 1/2 start = 2 connections Coin 1/2 = 2 connections So thats allready 28 connections taken, if I want to include 3 mousebuttons (left/middle/right) for my trackball then I will only have 1 buttons left for pause/escape/config/restart/power... I was wondering can i disclude the mousebuttons and just configure player 1 buttons 4/5/6 for example as mouse l…
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I've been thinking, more like "obsessing", over the idea of a HyperSpin Cab since '09. I've built a few little dedicated set-top machines and put together a few cocktail tables with spare parts....but the time has finally come. I used an existing cabinet circa 1977...coupled with a Dell Optiplex 755 mid-tower with a trusty old 2.66ghz Core 2 Duo, 8gb ram, 1tb hdd, and a low end HDMI-out video card....oh, and an ipac 2 plus a trackball with a controller from groovy game gear. I'll update this post with pics this week (should be finished). Any questions are welcome, I appreciate advice on what to do differently on the next cab as well. Thanks for looking! p.s.- sor…
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Hi. I have have no experience with wood working so my questions is: Any router will be good for slot cutting? For example cheapest router for 30 pounds? I know i need to buy bits for router so price for 3 off them is 35 pounds.So this set well be good for t molding? Router ~30 + bits 35=65 pounds.... Size of MDF is 18 mm "To cut the correct slot for standard arcade T-moulding you need: - 6702A Slot cutter (Diam 47.63mm Kerf 2.03mm) - B25 Bearing (Outer Diam 28.58mm, Inner Diam 7.94) - A200B Arbor (Shank 6.35mm)"
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Hey guys, This is my first foray into the world of arcade cabinets, just wanted to show it off! I bought the base unit from ArcadeWorx with the following modifications/installed components: i5 3.4Ghz, 16GB DDR3, 2x4TB HDD, Silly amounts of cooling. Frosted acrylic behind cut outs. Cheap ebay lighting strips Cheap 2 channel logitech sound system UltimaRC Trackball 26" IPS LCD 5ms (Asus something or other) And what I've ordered but is yet to arrive: Leap Motion sensor for 'touch screen' and gestures. Hope this will eliminate the keyboard necessity. Chrome trim Acrylic screen cover (Prevent fingerprints on LCD when using touch screen) Ultra brig…
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I've been building mame cabinets for a couple years and I've installed hyperspin in each one. My next project is a hyperpin build, that I plan to document better then this set of cabinets. My first machine was an entirly custom cabinet that I plan to keep. It's made out of oak and perfect for my space. 4 players, trackball, spinner, and 2 lightguns My next two builds were for friends. Their cabinets were golden tee and silver strike bowling Both machines had joysticks and buttons added. Silver Strike bowling was left mostly original looking, and I installed an A/B switch on the monitor, so it could play both hyperspin and bowling. The next cabinet was found…
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Hi Guys, I planned to use the bartop kit from TinyArcadeMachine and then pair it with the compatible artwork PSD from mikekim on the FTP. However, TinyArcadeMachine is out of stock and won't have anything in stock for a while -- their CNC guy is out of commission at the moment. As a result, I'm planning to grab a kit from ArcadeWarp, but how do I go about creating artwork to fit the kit's dimensions -- particularly the curved edges at the top?? Thanks so much, I'm sure I'm overthinking it, but it's driving me nuts! Owen
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hi all this is a tight squeeze but it worked lol the amp as been change to a smaller one now.
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Been working on Programing forever it seems like, but finally getting ready to build my first cab. Was planning on building the entire thing until I came across this on Kijiji in my area for $50. Someone has already torn it apart but still has monitor glass, marquee glass, speakers, coin doors and seems to be very solid. Also has brand new T molding on entire cab. Control panel is rough so probably going to build a new one from scratch. Was planing on putting a flat screen in for monitor but wanted some feedback on if i should change the angle that should mount it. I see on many others that have used flat screens they have them mounted almost vertical or just a bit ang…
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Anyone know of a 4 Player Arcade Cab Plans or can tell me the Measurement that they use for the 4 player Controls Area thanks
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The orange Donkey Kong 3 cab is an original Nintendo cab with new t-molding and side art, running a icade 60in1 with a vga crt monitor. The cpo and everything is all in such fantastic shape it never needed redoing is like new lol for 30 years old. really like how dk3 cpo is all steel its made to last forever lol The Mario bros. cab is a reproduction cab so I hyperspined it, I gutted the old Pentium D inside it and removed the broken vga added the following i3 3220 ivy bridge 4GB ripjaw 1600 gskillz ram EVGA GTX 650 superclocked Asus p8z77-m pro MB Acer led 1920x1080 screen The Popeye cabinet is my newest and I just finished it, was a lot of fun to make. It loads r…
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Hey all newbie to the forum and looking for some info. Looking at building a cabinet, like the look of the signs people use the ones that are like the ones used for stock market tickers. Wondering which brand to get and are easiest to use with hyperspin, and were to buy them. Also what the right term is for these signs when searching Google. Having trouble finding what am looking for, in the correct size. Also wondering what people are using for lighting was thinking about rgb led strip but no idea how to intergrate with hyperspin in regards to colour change on off etc. Help appreciated look forward to replies cheers.
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As a child of the 80's, I was greatly influenced by Tron. I decided to make a custom Tron Cabinet which is now pretty much done. I am running HS as the front-end with the x-arcade as the control hub. I shelled my system to boot directly to HS so it feels very authentic. Game On!
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Hello all I’m Chris I'm really not one for posting on forums but wanted to show what the HyperSpin program has made me do Well about November last year I thought I have to sort out my all my arcade ROMs from years ago they have just been lying about on my D: Drive when one day I came across HyperSpin and thought this would be awesome to setup and organize all my emulators at same time. I knew I always wanted an Arcade Machine so about 6 months ago I came up with a basic design and started to build it and I had no idea how I was going to mount the monitor, I got a cheap X-Arcade from think geek but plan to modify it and one day in the future after everything is done ju…
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On my mame cabinet, I had the arcade monitor working but someone changed my resolution settings. I tried to change them back to 640 x 480 60 hertz but I am still getting ''out of range". Let me know if you need anymore info to help me out. Any help would be greatly appreciated.
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Hey all. Just thought I'd share my first build that my friend and i made together. We wanted a clean panel with enough room for 4 guys to be comfortable, which is why you won't see anything but sticks and buttons. However, we designed it in a way that can easily be swapped out with other panels if you choose to. I plan on making another 2 player panel with a trackball, flight stick, and possibly a steering wheel. Might get a couple of guns, but that's for later. It's made out of paint grade MDF with a industrial conversion varnish topcoat (much more durable than paint). It can be completely broken down and moved with ease so it can actually fit through a doorway. …
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