jf866 Posted December 2, 2013 Share Posted December 2, 2013 After three years of building a cabinet in my spare time, it is finally done. I think I had a better time building it and messing around with Hyperspin than actually playing it. Time to show it off and find out what you all think. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rfancella Posted December 2, 2013 Share Posted December 2, 2013 wOOt! Very nice!!! Ron Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gigapig Posted December 2, 2013 Share Posted December 2, 2013 No way! Someone actually finished Nice job Sir. So what's next, a holiday or cocktail table? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
32assassin Posted December 2, 2013 Share Posted December 2, 2013 great job but finished, yeah right! something tells me you will add more stuff to it in the near future. I think the correct term: I finally get to enjoy the fruits of my labor, Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Polemicist Posted December 3, 2013 Share Posted December 3, 2013 What is this word you speak of "Finished" I've not heard that before. Nice job. Like the simple black look. Only 3 years you say? So spare time is something you don't get much of then? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
connorsdad Posted December 3, 2013 Share Posted December 3, 2013 Very nice, clean too, mine is hiding some rough ass joinery lol Sent from my SM-N9005 using Tapatalk Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Deadly Posted December 3, 2013 Share Posted December 3, 2013 So you have every EMU configured and every game set to use whatever controls? You have ZERO plans of adding any other EMU's? You have no plans of updating EMU's? No more syncing with Hypersync? No more hardware additions? Let me cut you in on a little secret of mine. I started my cabinet over 7 years ago. Guess who's not done -->ME<-- Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rain Posted December 3, 2013 Share Posted December 3, 2013 I love seeing a cabinet that is not overkilled with vinyl and other gawdy things (ie 30 sticks.) Great job, truly a work of beauty. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jf866 Posted December 3, 2013 Author Share Posted December 3, 2013 I would like to rewire the internals, very messy! I ran out of wire one day, and ended up using about 10 ft. of ground wire of a broken strand of Christmas lights. My next project may be a mini cabinet. A friend gave me a 9" Toshiba laptop that was 'Broken', it just needed a new CPU fan. In order to get to the fan, the entire laptop had to be taken apart. Easy to take apart, impossible to put back together. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jf866 Posted December 3, 2013 Author Share Posted December 3, 2013 What is this word you speak of "Finished" I've not heard that before. Nice job. Like the simple black look. Only 3 years you say? So spare time is something you don't get much of then? Family, work, and home have to come first. I may not be entirely finished..... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jf866 Posted December 3, 2013 Author Share Posted December 3, 2013 I love seeing a cabinet that is not overkilled with vinyl and other gawdy things (ie 30 sticks.) Great job, truly a work of beauty. Thank you! I wanted to keep it clean and simple. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jf866 Posted December 3, 2013 Author Share Posted December 3, 2013 So you have every EMU configured and every game set to use whatever controls?You have ZERO plans of adding any other EMU's? You have no plans of updating EMU's? No more syncing with Hypersync? No more hardware additions? [ATTACH=CONFIG]35785[/ATTACH] Let me cut you in on a little secret of mine. I started my cabinet over 7 years ago. Guess who's not done -->ME<-- Okay, I am not entirely finished. I have an Aimtrack light gun stashed in the drawer. I have been thinking of adding a USB port to the side of the cabinet to plug it into instead of having to open the drawer and pull it out, or I would like to add some kind of holster to the cab. Ultimarc's Servo Stick has caught my eye. I would like an easier way to change between 4-way and 8-way. I have the left joystick as 8-way and the right set as 4-way. But games like Karate Champ, two 4-ways are needed. Fighting games for two players would need two 8-ways....such a dilemma. I don't intend to add other EMUs. I am keeping it to only MAME, Virtual Pinball, and TI99/4A. Believe it or not, I am not a 'Gamer'. I mostly like the arcade classics. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jf866 Posted December 3, 2013 Author Share Posted December 3, 2013 No way! Someone actually finished Nice job Sir. So what's next, a holiday or cocktail table? Not entirely finished. Thank you for the compliment. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ericleroi Posted December 3, 2013 Share Posted December 3, 2013 Very nice indeed. Love the simplicity of the CP and general design - the colours are great also. Good job Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
THK Posted December 3, 2013 Share Posted December 3, 2013 I don't intend to add other EMUs. I am keeping it to only MAME, Virtual Pinball, and TI99/4A. Believe it or not, I am not a 'Gamer'. I mostly like the arcade classics. There's enough systems to add keeping it only to arcade systems Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Polemicist Posted December 3, 2013 Share Posted December 3, 2013 I don't intend to add other EMUs. I am keeping it to only MAME, Virtual Pinball, and TI99/4A. Believe it or not, I am not a 'Gamer'. I mostly like the arcade classics. TI99/4A was my first computer. Nostalgia. Dunno if you know about the neutrix USB ports but if you don't they rock for cabs. The servo sticks are great from what I hear. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rfancella Posted December 4, 2013 Share Posted December 4, 2013 TI99/4A was my first computer. Nostalgia. Ran across one at an antique joint last weekend for $15.00 with a couple carts. Almost bought it but it had no power supply. Ron Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Polemicist Posted December 4, 2013 Share Posted December 4, 2013 I actually had one of these. http://utopia.knoware.nl/users/stuurmn/bw1214.htm Try emulating that one. It even had Speech Synthesis back then and pretty much had to do everything phonetically. Yes I made it swear a lot. Skip to 4 minutes in if the link doesn't work. There's enough systems to add keeping it only to arcade systems There are so many great arcade systems. I keep starting to setup one and then find another one and have to start it and then find something else. Oh... yeah good idea just stick with the few you have and start playing on your cab. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rfancella Posted December 4, 2013 Share Posted December 4, 2013 Pole, Sweet!! I had an Osborne 1 'back in the day'. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Osborne_1 Yea, I know, yours was bigger. I only had a 5" monitor. LOL Ron Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jf866 Posted December 9, 2013 Author Share Posted December 9, 2013 TI99/4A was my first computer. Nostalgia. Dunno if you know about the neutrix USB ports but if you don't they rock for cabs. The servo sticks are great from what I hear. Funny, my first computer was TI99/4A too. Spend many nights writing programs in Extended Basic, saving the code to a cassette tape! Thanks for the tip on the Neutrik USB ports, just what I was looking for. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Polemicist Posted December 9, 2013 Share Posted December 9, 2013 I built my own extended basic addition through the Texas Instruments Home Computer User Group mag that I got as a kid. Special order. God I'm a geek. Yeah those Neutrik ports rock. I'm a Cabler so I use things like that a lot. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
connorsdad Posted December 9, 2013 Share Posted December 9, 2013 +1 on the Neutrik ports, very clean installation. Sent from my SM-N9005 using Tapatalk Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mattpsu03 Posted December 21, 2013 Share Posted December 21, 2013 Cab looks great! I just ordered a spinner for mine and I have a question. Which games take advantage of adding a flyweight to the spinner? I ordered the spinner without a flyweight because I mainly want to use it for arkanoid, but I can't think of any games which would need a long spin time on the spinner.... unless I am missing some point to the flyweight deal.... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wahoobrian Posted December 21, 2013 Share Posted December 21, 2013 Cab looks great! I just ordered a spinner for mine and I have a question. Which games take advantage of adding a flyweight to the spinner? I ordered the spinner without a flyweight because I mainly want to use it for arkanoid, but I can't think of any games which would need a long spin time on the spinner.... unless I am missing some point to the flyweight deal.... I have two spinners on my cab, neither weighted... not really missing it either... 2 player Atari 2600 Warlords is awesome. My daughter and I play daily... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Polemicist Posted December 21, 2013 Share Posted December 21, 2013 It costs like $10 for a weight. Just get one anyway. Some people love it others try it and take it off. But if you don't have it you will never know. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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