ironorr84 Posted June 4, 2012 Share Posted June 4, 2012 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 pose! Some of the youth playing the 'cade. The guy in the middle is our pastor, master of Galaga! There was so much admusement hearing from the younger kids how, "Donkey Kong is a hard game!" I purchased the Lono2 Arcade to USB board for the button inputs, 43 concave arcade buttons and 4 joysticks from HAPP (Red, Blue, Green, Yellow, and White), and oldish laptop that was busted but nicely re-purposed for the 'cade, I believe around 5 sheets of plywood, 2 sheets of a smooth particle board for the smooth/finished parts of the cabinet, a USB 3" tracball, a 40" LCD screen that was re-purposed, 2 sheets of 6x4 plexyglass for all the marquees, and later I'll design all the artwork to go inside the plexyglass displays to make it more eye-catching. I suppose I used around a gallon of black paint too. On the backside, there is a door that opens to the lower cavity of the 'cade, which houses all the electrical and computer workings. The control panel that all the joysticks and buttons are at also hinges upwards, so I can service the underworkings of the controls, and also houses a keyboard and mouse. Today (Sun June 3rd 2012 @ 12:50ish) we reveled our newly redesigned Coffee/hangout room for all to enjoy, our newly purchased bouncy house for the kids ministry, and our big ol' arcade machine for all to enjoy. I'll try to post a short vid tomorrow with a timelapse of the first part of the build, as well as the video of me relieving the 'cade to the kids/youth and adults. Wow was it a bonus to see all of their reactions! Such a crazy awesome moment. It's so quirky to realize that all of us "kids" from the 70's and 80's are all grown up, and with all the 40-somes all the way down to the young'ins in the room, we were all crazy pumped and all are "gamers" to each their own. All us "Big Kids" were loving on the old Donkey Kongs and Pac Mans, while the younger kids were teaming up against the Foot in the TMNT games. If the cabinet looks kinda familiar, it's because I closely designed it after the Arcangel Arcade build by ridicrick. http://www.evga.com/forums/tm.aspx?m=944339&mpage=1 Gotta say, this was a blast to build. In the future, there will be additions and what-nots added later, but for now, the kids and adults are loving it! Thanks for all workings done here at the Hyperspin forums. You guys have a nice base of resources to get'er done! Ryan, Dir. of Tech Crossroads Christian Church http://www.facebook.com/come2crossroadschristianchurch Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lucian045 Posted June 4, 2012 Share Posted June 4, 2012 Awesome post! Great work for your church! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ironorr84 Posted June 4, 2012 Author Share Posted June 4, 2012 Hey everyone, just finished creating a bit of a promotional video for the church and our coffee parlor that is now the home of our new arcade cabinet. I thought you guys would like to see at least a small sampling of the arcade in video. Thanks! Ryan Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest fr0stbyt3 Posted June 4, 2012 Share Posted June 4, 2012 Church techno. I like it. Great job on the overall build. Looks like it has a very nice new home. You might want to check out rain's new app hypersync to pull the themes and artwork your missing in your video! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
synakcm Posted June 5, 2012 Share Posted June 5, 2012 Do I have to be a member of the church to come play this? Nice job, looks great. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RidicRick Posted June 5, 2012 Share Posted June 5, 2012 I am honored that my build inspired you with your build. It looks great!! And its even better that many kids get to use it and have fun with arcade games! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ironorr84 Posted June 7, 2012 Author Share Posted June 7, 2012 Church techno. I like it.Great job on the overall build. Looks like it has a very nice new home. You might want to check out rain's new app hypersync to pull the themes and artwork your missing in your video! Hey now, that's a nice idea! I'll take a look tomorrow and check it out! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WetherillMedia Posted March 17, 2013 Share Posted March 17, 2013 Hey man, I'm just wondering if you could pass on the measurements of your control panel, and maybe point me in the direction of where you got the layout for it from? I can see you've gotten most of it from archangle, but his CP image is low-quality. Cheers! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ironorr84 Posted July 18, 2013 Author Share Posted July 18, 2013 How did I come up with my measurements? A very low tech solution I suppose. I had a very large roll of paper, taped it to the wall , marked the desired height of my 'cade, and then used a projector to project archangel's gfx on the newspaper. With a bunch of ingenuity and my high school cabinet/woodworking skills, I was able to make my cabinet. But archangel actually just released his plans! So don't do my method...use his plans! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zinger19 Posted July 18, 2013 Share Posted July 18, 2013 Holy Shit!!! Orr!!! Its Mike Holsinger from PTI. Lol Small world Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tkropp17 Posted July 18, 2013 Share Posted July 18, 2013 Very nice! I'm starting a 6ft build of ArchAngel in the near future. Do you have any side shots of it? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ironorr84 Posted July 19, 2013 Author Share Posted July 19, 2013 Holy Shit!!! Orr!!! Its Mike Holsinger from PTI. Lol Small world DUDE!...What are you doing on here?!?! I mean...I see that you're a "Gold Member", so you're pretty up there, but wow...let's speak on FB. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zinger19 Posted July 19, 2013 Share Posted July 19, 2013 Haha I'll purchase you a Goldie when I get home from work.sometime this century if you'd like Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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