Twoflower Posted September 21, 2015 Share Posted September 21, 2015 Almost done this project, thought I'd show it off a bit. I'm a dwarf (short stature) and that's a pain in the ass for using upright arcade cabinets. So ten years ago my dad, who does woodworking as a hobby, created a cab scaled more to my size. Nothing too fancy, basically a shell I could put an X-Arcade stick, computer, and monitor in. Fastforward to today, where to honor my father (who passed away this year) I pulled it out of mothballs to update it with new technology and better artwork. Now it's running HyperSpin on a 3.6ghz computer with a nice refurbished 1600x1200 LCD monitor; great for modern games and with HLSL and other video filters it can mimic the lower quality CRTs nicely. XB360 controllers work for player 3 and 4 or for modern emulated console games, and an Aimtrak light gun finishes it off. I've got HyperSpin customized to divide games up between "Arcade," "Retro" (basically Atari 2600), "8-Bit" (NES and Gameboy), "16-Bit" (SNES and Genesis), "Modern" (PS1/2 and Dreamcast), and "PC" (Steam games). Also categories for Pinball Arcade, a SaltyBet livestream, and a jukebox of 80s music. Being able to mix different emulators in the same database using the EXE tag has helped a lot. The artwork is a reproduction sideart decal, and a custom marquee; I designed the latter to catch the apeture of the lightbox behind it (which is pretty small). GameOnGrafix printed the marquee for me, great stuff. Last step is to do the bezel around the monitor, to hide the guts of the thing. Trying to figure out the best way to do it given the thin frame around the monitor. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
THK Posted September 21, 2015 Share Posted September 21, 2015 neat Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gigapig Posted September 21, 2015 Share Posted September 21, 2015 Great story Twoflower, thank you for sharing. I do love Q-bert but have never got it right with a normal joystick. Is yours rotated (45 degrees I think) or is there a trick to it? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Twoflower Posted September 21, 2015 Author Share Posted September 21, 2015 Nah, it's a normal joystick. It's a cabinet for waaaay more than just QBert, so I can't modify the controls like that just for a single game. However, see the buttons there? I have the leftmost 4 buttons mapped as directionals for Qbert in MAME, so I can tap them to act like a diagonal joystick tap. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hitchhikingflatlander Posted September 23, 2015 Share Posted September 23, 2015 LOL Every time I play Qbert on my cab the regular joystick layout screws me up! Cool project. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rotgut Posted September 24, 2015 Share Posted September 24, 2015 Nice job! I like it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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