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I have replaced CRT with a LCD screen last week and want to replace the bezel with a sheet of tinted plexiglass. It will be 26"X26" What thickness should I get for it to not bend or curve at all. I was thinking of 3/8" Am I overkilling it?
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Anyone any ideas what's happening here? I installed an iPac controller, in a cabinet PS2 version, when I came to boot up, only the P1 joystick UP/DN actually worked, all I could do was to spin the Hyperspin menu up and down, but the other switches etc, don't work. The cabinet is set up for 2 players, with 6 buttons each, there are also a few more buttons, 2 either side (pinball) and 4 along the front fascia above the control panel and 2 more on the front panel itself. I changed 5 of the original buttons for illuminated one's and I used another surplus button to control the PC booting on and off. I have checked and double checked with a multimeter every switch, joystic…
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Hi there guy's posted a 4 player bartop before it was a green one well never looked as I wanted it so im trying it again.Well last time I cut it myself from mdf with a jigsaw i've since moved house so most of my equipment is packed away so i've looked into this foamalux stuff due to wanting a lighter cab frame I cam across a company not to far from me gave them a a rough drawing with sizes and they did a cad design and cut me one out of the foamalux board it was the same design as my mdf with a few altered sizes (larger) Well so far i've housed my decased 24'' lcd in and really striped it down bare so there is plenty of room to house my small dual core motherboard under …
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So.... I started out with a bartop arcade, I had a really hard time placing it somewhere in my apartment, even though it's smaller than a fullcab it's still takes up more space if that makes sense? Any way, I have for a long time been thinking of mounting a track ball on my control panel the only problem was that the bartop control panel didn't have room for one. I started out building a bigger control panel, I then just built a box for the bartop to stand on, I also built a shelf inside the box so I could move the motherboard as the bartop was to packed, I built in an access panel in the back of the box so I easily could reach the motherboard. I then just designed and …
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Anyone know where I can find some horror art for a friends cab that I can work with in photoshop. Like some huge art, high quality ect...
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Hi I have a 42 LCD tv waiting to be used in a new cab. Will this do a good enough job or is it really worth investing in an led? Seems a lot of money to so end when I have this good tv already, but then before I spend hours on the cabinet I want to make sure I will be happy with the result. Also is 42 a good size or would 46 give much improved results, it seems most of you go for 46 now? I also have a 32 lcd for the back box, i Again is it worth the money for a new led?
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Greetings, I am FuZZy from Belgium and i am building a cabinet with Alien vs Predator theme. Here's my history: In heart i have always been a gamer, when i was a teenager i entered the world of console gaming. From Santa i got a Nintendo Entertainment System which was pretty popular back then. Switching games with friends was common, unfortunately a lot of them are lost or stupidly sold now lol :-) Off course back in those days arcade cabinets were on every carnival, so i played those a lot to. Over the years i also had a SNES, then switched to computer gaming for many years, and switching back to consoles with PS2, PS3 and who knows what the future will bring. I have …
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Hello men, Lately I have come to present the Universal Retrogaming control pads MVGS2 that are compatible to more than 110 game systems. Today I realized an Arcade Cab allowing us to play more than 30 Retro game consoles with our 75 universal Controllers. I let you take a peek in the hope of a positive feedback:
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Hello , My name is Nick 29 years old (from belgium) i am new on this forum and this is my first build so here we go First i found a plan on the internet i got one from jacobud. after a lot of mesurements and calculating i got my plan finished. it looks pretty good i think side art colors seems to be off but thats my camera irl it looks mutch better i go with an lcd screen , so i ordered a slg3000 better shot of the bezel (what you see on the glass is reflection of light) putting the cab together with some L brackets works very good the strip you see in front is just to hold the cab together , will be removed later cutting the ba…
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Ill spend more time on this thread soon but for now here is a cool videos of my leds in action.
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Here is a Superman cocktail cab I just finished. It was based off the old comics. To bad the new Superman was a let down. I would have done it on the new movie.
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ok so I have never built a full cab just computers. I have recently come into a neogeo MVS with everything working and would love to convert it into my mame cab. My question is some guidance on the best rout. First I want to keep the original moniotor in place, how do I keep this and hook it up to my computer? The CP, do I need to rewire all this into an IPAC? Thanks
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Hi guys, I posted a few months ago with my first video of cabinet (http://www.hyperspin-fe.com/forum/showthread.php?23740-my-attempt-at-hyperspin) Im looking at making the first steps towards RL.0 so thought I would show off latest attempts on here with the end of HL2.0 I haven't really done anything to the cab itself, it needs to be finished off around the monitor still and a big mean paint job (hopefully by end of year), but I sat back down and got stuck into this for a couple weeks to get rid of silly bugs and annoying things and took time to add Marquee Images to most my games as well as background images etc (just xbox 360,xbox original, pc games, ps2, ps3, trifor…
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I know it's not much. I just don't have the carpentry skills and neither the tools :/ So I ended up just modding the x-arcade heavily and buying a cab for it. I changed the t-molding though =D And added two extra buttons to start and to exit games. ----EDIT------ Because of the fear of the tv falling I ended up buying a mount. And now the tv's part of the cab =D Edit Again: Hmmm not sure why the uploader rotated my pictures. I'm sure you guys can make out what's in the pic
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Guys, I need your help once again. I plan to build a bartop, so at the moment I muse about how many buttons are useful for hyperspin. I had seen that some people use three buttons for the menu (pause, exit and select), ok and of course the obligatory 1P start and coin buttons. By now I only have experience with hyperpin. In hyperpin I have use only 1P start and exit and this was more than enough for the menu. Could you guys please tell me wherefor a select button makes sense in hyperspin? And what do you think, is this enough (start, exit, coin, pause and select) for a 1P bartop? Or is it to mutch? Ok, I know I need besides some action buttons.
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Hey all, I thought I would share a few marquee layout/designs I did. Just want to become more involved within the Hyperspin community. My profession is a graphic designer. Hope you like them. GARTH Click to enlarge images below.
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Could the AMD A10-6800K handle nfl blitz in mame? Need to find a CPU that has hyperspin-compatible integrated graphics.
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This is my first attempt at creating an arcade cabinet. I had two goals: 1) To see if I could do it and 2)to do it as cheaply as possible I had to settle on an X-Arcade Stick for time reasons...way simpler than wiring the controls myself I decided on an X-Men theme since I play a lot of Marvel vs Capcom as well as grew up playing the X-Men arcade game...for the graphics I used Fatheads..recently, I saw my Wolverine laying on the floor in a jumbled mess, i fixed him and used some spray glue to hold him up...might have to do that to the rest of the characters The other side of the cabinet has graphics of Nightcrawler and Colossus..I can't find the pics of them right now…
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I was given a touch screen monitor. When i got it all i could think was how can i implement this into my cab as a second screen . its only 15 inches so i wont use it as my main monitor. the one in the cab is 32. Maybe a screen between the speakers?
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Just to let everyone know, I know so little about wiring . Will this http://www.amazon.com/Silver-Stainless-Illuminated-Momentary-Pushbutton/dp/B005TX3OEC/ref=sr_1_5?s=electronics&ie=UTF8&qid=1373210807&sr=1-5 work for wiring to my PC's motherboard shutdown terminal? And if so what wires or other things do I need to make the wiring work? Thanks in advance!
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Hi all ! Here's my little story as introduction : a friend of mine is a retro-gamer and collector, he gots his hand on a Sega Blast City Arcade cabinet, without PCB and without the screen. He'd like a working Arcade machine, I mean, "fake", with a PC running emulators & of course.. HyperSpin ! (he had an old cabinet like that with an old PC (I mean.. OLD!) barely running mame...didn't really look good and I showed him HyperSpin that I accidentally discovered on the internet and he was amazed) (example of this cabinet taken from another forum) Where am I involved here? I'm not good at electronics and neither am I a DIY man (not really good with screwdrivers if u …
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I have been searching for a while now everywhere on what is the best way to changed the Joystick on my x-arcade tankstick. All I want is a ball top joystick. Then I found this website... http://groovygamegear.com/webstore/index.php?main_page=product_info&products_id=381 This seem like an easy way to get a ball top joystick. No need to change anything else, just the shaft. Or am I not understanding something? Does it work if I do that? But if you guys have any Joystick suggestions that does not require any major modding the x-arcade. Please let me know guys. Thanks!
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If I might crave your indulgence please, I'd really appreciate yet more advice. I am in the process of wiring an iPac Encoder in a cabinet, all the buttons are mapped out OK except as follows. On the Encoder, I have two points marked !A & !B, and similarly on the other side, 2A & 2B. On the cabinet I have four buttons as yet unused. Two are on the front panel, to the right hand side and sited below the monitor, and these are quite close together. The other two are on the side panels (where you'd have flippers, were it a pinball). The two on the side I'd like to set up in Hyperspin so that they boot up and shut down the cabinet. I'm not asking how to shell wi…
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Hi, Getting ready for my first build, a couple of quick questions : Where should I buy the parts? (ex. joysticks, buttons, etc) *I've got the PC building part covered. What is a rough list of the parts I would need for a setup like this? : http://www.hyperspin-fe.com/forum/showthread.php?25778-My-Arcade-Podium-%28Picture-Heavy%29 Where can I find some dimension templates for ideas? Thanks!
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Hey Guys, first post (I believe...) Confession time. I've been a lurker on these forums and have been gathering resources, tips and tricks, and lots and lots of research on building a Hyperspin arcade machine. I'm a full time Director of Tech. at my place of worship, and to help kick off our summer events and give a shot in the arm for our youth group, I spent the last 3-4 weeks building this massive 4-player cabinet with Hyperspin as the frontloader. I'm 6' 0", and this thing is just a hair under 7'. It rolls on 4 casters, and as we rolled it under our doorways, there is literally 1-2mm left for clearance. Hey...I wanted this thing to be as big as I could! Action …
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