RidicRick Posted January 20, 2013 Author Posted January 20, 2013 I need a close up picture of it to recreate it. Ill ask BBB if he has one. Can you fix your instruction card?(look at page 40 for photo of real instruction card.)
DarthSjaak Posted January 24, 2013 Posted January 24, 2013 Why did this topic suddenly get inactive? Because the topic moved to BYOAC (http://forum.arcadecontrols.com/index.php/topic,129479.0.html) Over on BYOAC, you can find updates on the game, screenshots and video's.
RidicRick Posted January 24, 2013 Author Posted January 24, 2013 The topic for the graphics portion of the cabinet and anyone who wants to post pics of their FIFjr cabs is still right here. The making of the FIFjr game is at BYOAC.
prostkxy Posted January 25, 2013 Posted January 25, 2013 all i have to say is a big well done for the guys doing the hard work on making these cabs. i have been inspired to create a felix cab amongst other nintendo cabs now.
RidicRick Posted January 28, 2013 Author Posted January 28, 2013 My new control panel is built and the new controls came in today. Leaf push buttons, yellow and blue to match the real cab and old school feel. 4 way adapter to turn my nintendo joystick into 4 way instead of 8, and a clear plexi joystick guard. In the next few days it will be completely done and ready for the FIF JR game to be added to it. Woot!
Rodj Posted January 29, 2013 Posted January 29, 2013 My new control panel is built and the new controls came in today. Leaf push buttons, yellow and blue to match the real cab and old school feel. 4 way adapter to turn my nintendo joystick into 4 way instead of 8, and a clear plexi joystick guard. In the next few days it will be completely done and ready for the FIF JR game to be added to it. Woot! Did you recreate the instruction card?
RidicRick Posted January 29, 2013 Author Posted January 29, 2013 I suppose I could create a new one right now. Just gotta find a good picture of the actual one. I also just made a new control panel graphic that is the EXACT hole pattern of Donkey Kong (just need to add extra hole for forth button). The dk cpo file that is in the share folder I guess wasn't correct and doesn't line up with a DK control panel and will be deleted. I will upload the new control panel file to dropbox sometime tonight.
RidicRick Posted January 29, 2013 Author Posted January 29, 2013 Fun article for anyone to read about FIF Jr cab that was built. http://computer-classics.de/cah_blog2/arcade/building-the-fix-it-felix-cab-for-drp/ And yet some more interesting things about the actual cabinet. http://www.jasoneckert.net/blog/Entries/2012/12/20_Anatomy_of_a_Wreck-it_Ralph_Arcade_Machine.html
RidicRick Posted January 29, 2013 Author Posted January 29, 2013 New instruction card on the control panel. (same exact button/joystick alignment as the Donkey Kong control panel, only with an added button)
prostkxy Posted January 30, 2013 Posted January 30, 2013 Magic! where did you get the buttons from? also is there a company who makes the nintendo looking joysticks or should i hunt for original nintendo ones?
prostkxy Posted January 30, 2013 Posted January 30, 2013 what are the chances of making the coin credit sticker to say 20c instead of 25c?
RidicRick Posted January 30, 2013 Author Posted January 30, 2013 Nintendo joysticks (4way) are at Mikesarcade ClassX Leaf switch buttons at Groovygamegear Magic! where did you get the buttons from? also is there a company who makes the nintendo looking joysticks or should i hunt for original nintendo ones?
RidicRick Posted January 30, 2013 Author Posted January 30, 2013 Just curious.. why 20c? Actually using two dimes or is there another meaning behind it? what are the chances of making the coin credit sticker to say 20c instead of 25c?
prostkxy Posted January 30, 2013 Posted January 30, 2013 Just curious.. why 20c? Actually using two dimes or is there another meaning behind it? Here in australia we dont have a 25c coins. our games back in the 80's took 20c coins. so basically when i build some cabs i want them to be authentic to australia.
RidicRick Posted January 30, 2013 Author Posted January 30, 2013 I can print you a shit ton and send them your way. Then you can sell and distribute them to the Australian arcade guys. PM me if your interested. Here in australia we dont have a 25c coins. our games back in the 80's took 20c coins.so basically when i build some cabs i want them to be authentic to australia.
Fuzion9 Posted February 5, 2013 Posted February 5, 2013 Great Work all round. The graphics are amazing & BBB working on his own version of FIFJ i'm sure it's going to be great. After finally finishing my bartop arcade with great success, I can't wait to add this title to Hyperspin. Keep up the good work. Hyperspin is the best out there by far.
Fuzion9 Posted February 5, 2013 Posted February 5, 2013 Hi BBB, Any news on when you're going to show us the video teaser of your FIF project, i'm well looking forward to it!!
BadBoyBill Posted February 5, 2013 Posted February 5, 2013 Ya the game is pretty much done, Im just doing a few minor optional additions to the game that are bonus add ons, I came up with some pretty cool ones that don't take away from the game. I'll put a video when it's fully ready. But I must say that I even impressed myself with this one, it's pretty much a spot on recreation. Having played the actual arcade version many times and playing mine, I honestly can't tell the difference. Funny thing is that while creating this and watching my videos over and over I kept finding tons more differences in the arcade version compared to the online version, there are so many more sprites that it was getting rediculous. For example when felix dies his final death the arcade version changed about 4 or 5 sprites compared to the online one, felix actually makes this goofy looking face and his dead body is even different and looks much better. Little things like when ralph gets thrown off the building he has his arms angled differently. I've had to probably draw from scratch over 50 new sprites that are different. You don't notice the different sprites until you watch closely frame by frame what's going on in the game. There are many other small differences, such as the way ralph acts and the beginning and end of each floor, the sound effects are different when you finish floors, there are tons of extra sounds in the arcade also. The way things are timed are way different to, which was a whole nother battle that I had to deal with. It seemed like every time I though I was done with something I would notice yet something else that was slighly different. I'ts like playing one of those hidden object games or something. I also went to bitmap fonts to ensure pixel perfect fonts and to ensure the use of the exact character sets in the game. The fonts in the game borrow from multiple types which I found on closer inspection. There is no one font out there that matches up exactly to the character set used in the game, so I drew them all by hand. I pretty much analyzed all my footage to get everything exact as I possibly could down to the pixel level which was pretty challenging. I didn't want this to be slapped together but rather a perfect as possible copy of the real thing, which is why it took longer than I thought. Programming it was the easy part, making it match up felt like it was more like an art. I noticed also that out of the 4 machines at Disneyland 2 of the games are way slower than the other 2 machines. Like a lot slower. I feel sorry for who gets the slow ones because they are crappy to play, and the colors are a little off to. The other 2 machines were pretty great. The reason I mentioned that is because the slower ones were the first ones I played and took footage of, it wasn't until subsequent trips that I played the other machines and got a much better feel for the game. The full attract mode sequence and ralph intro animation were the suckiest parts to recreate, but I think after much work they turned out great.
Secret80'sMan Posted February 5, 2013 Posted February 5, 2013 Wow BBB, this looks like it will be just amazing! Looking forward to checking it out.
evil eye Posted February 5, 2013 Posted February 5, 2013 Ok BBB I'm officially excited again! Looking forward to seeing this in action and hopefully getting to play it one day. I've never been exposed to the arcade version outside of what was shown in the movie.
mameman Posted February 5, 2013 Posted February 5, 2013 can't wait sounds like its going to be stella performance PM me for any custom CNC needs. Find me on Facebook.. Xtreme Pinball or www.xtremepinball.com Ipad pinball cabinet iFlipper Here: See the Doctor Who build Here.... / See the Tron build Here.... / See the BattleStar Galactica build Here.... See the Big Bang Bar build Here.... / See the Twilight Zone build Here.... CNC Work Here.....
Trnzaddict Posted February 5, 2013 Posted February 5, 2013 Bill I'm glad your finishing this. I thought you were a little nervous about putting it up on the site but, cool beans. *Ahem* A little off topic, but there's uh, a dvd screening release of the movie now out in the wild. Compared to the other cam releases of the movie this copy is superior. I'll def. buy the bluray when it comes out though I'm sure it'll look stunning in 1080p. I am......Machine
Fuzion9 Posted February 5, 2013 Posted February 5, 2013 Thanks for the update BBB, I have never played or had the opportunity to play the arcade version, only watched the vids up on youtube & things. I'm really looking forward to your release. I'm just curious to what you have coded it to run on? eg: mame, standalone.exe or flash like the online version. I have played the online version which lacks in a lot of areas. Good luck with the rest of your work on this.
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