gheoss Posted September 25, 2012 Posted September 25, 2012 Hello people, first of all, thank you all, with the help of this forum ive finished building one of my projects, this Bartop.. i have built some more, but this one i love the looks and its the first one to have a 22" LCD Here is the video http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QzJE0uPcj8Q&feature=g-upl I will be making (i hope) one for Nvidia , and another with a Soccer theme (and all the soccer games from day one to present)
BadBoyBill Posted September 26, 2012 Posted September 26, 2012 That's sick man, wish I had one like it, it inspires me to build one.
Mackdaddi Posted September 26, 2012 Posted September 26, 2012 That is superb. As a lover of bartops, it's probably the most beautiful one I've seen anywhere, including my own. I love the custom graphics and control panel overlay on it, and well done in sneaking in the extra 2 buttons per side to make it a six buton layout. The choice of black for them in contrast with the primary colors for the original SNK 4 button color scheme is great. I presume you're planning to run more than the SNK games on it based on that? Do you have any pics from the build or shots of the sides, back, insides, etc? Really well done, a fantastic job!!
Min2001 Posted September 26, 2012 Posted September 26, 2012 Wow, nice. If or rather when I get enough money and parts to build one I might build something similar to this, loving the reflective t-molding and artwork...
Zinger19 Posted September 26, 2012 Posted September 26, 2012 Very nice and clean. Looks awesome! NES Arcade Build StarKade: A Raspberry Pi Arcade 80's Toy Collection
gheoss Posted September 26, 2012 Author Posted September 26, 2012 Thank you guys!!, i will post more pictures this week, from inside, the sides, back and in more detail. its wider than the regular bartops. AMD x2 2gb mem 160gb HD Geforce 520 Its running Hyperspin with: Taito x2 MAME NEOGEO Turbograph Sega x32 Sega Master System Sega Dreamcast Sega CD Sega AM2 Sega AM3 Atari 2600 Atari 5200 Zinc Daphne LAserGames
gheoss Posted October 2, 2012 Author Posted October 2, 2012 Here another video and pics http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DggkAL4nHtM&feature=plcp
Mackdaddi Posted October 2, 2012 Posted October 2, 2012 Once again, that is a really beautiful bartop. Best one i've seen yet. Very VERY well done. I have some questions if you don't mind. Where did you get the "25cent push for credit" buttons? They look great. Can you explain how/where you got the cracked black leather look on the front panel of the cab? Is it an adhesive wrap of some sort, and do you have links? How did you get the Control panel button layout on the game screen for your SNK game in pic 9 in your last post? Is that a custom theme you've created for HS, and do you have that for all of your games, or is it an app like cpwizard or something? Thanks, and once again, Wow!!
evil eye Posted October 2, 2012 Posted October 2, 2012 That's THK's Neo Geo theme, you can get it from the Downloads section I believe. Seriously the nicest bar top I've ever seen. Fantastic vision and execution. Kudos to you!
Mackdaddi Posted October 2, 2012 Posted October 2, 2012 That's THK's Neo Geo theme, you can get it from the Downloads section I believe. Thanks. I was looking for a way to display controls for each game on press of a button or on the theme screen on the game menu, but i guess i'll keep looking. Editing themes individually is a bit too much work. Something just struck me though, i may edit system themes to show which buttons on the cab correspond to which ones on the original console pad....hmmmm. @ Gheoss. Quick suggestion for you. As you've gone to all the work of making your themes look so good, why don't you deactivate the game name text on the bottom left of the screen that covers your control panel diagram? I think i had to edit an .ini file somewhere to do it, but now i have no text display at all messing up the theme, just the title snap to show me what game I'm on.
gheoss Posted October 2, 2012 Author Posted October 2, 2012 THank you guys again for your feedback! The 25 cent button, ive printed it in a transparent adhesive sheet, and its inside a regular rectangular button. The black leather its called TOLEX, you can get it from any Speakers cabinet building site, or store. The theme is the regular one ive downloaded from here. About the the ini, i was thinking on doing that, but im afk i would mess the ini up..
Mackdaddi Posted October 2, 2012 Posted October 2, 2012 About the the ini, i was thinking on doing that, but im afk i would mess the ini up.. Thanks for your answers. Really nicely done. The completeness of vision on your cab is great. Dont be afraid to edit the ini file. Just copy and paste it somewhere else as a backup before you do. Make your changes simply in notepad, and save them. If you mess anything up or it doesnt work, just copy/paste your backup back in and overwrite the one you just changed.
evil eye Posted October 3, 2012 Posted October 3, 2012 Or you can disable the text by simply checking the box in HyperHQ. I forget the name of it, but it's definitely in there. Either way works and it's completely reversible.
Mackdaddi Posted October 3, 2012 Posted October 3, 2012 Or you can disable the text by simply checking the box in HyperHQ. I forget the name of it, but it's definitely in there. Either way works and it's completely reversible. You can't disable the game name, publisher, genre text etc with a checkbox. You can turn on or off the special art (freeplay, press start, etc) but you have to do an .ini edit to remove the text. It's actually pretty simple though, nothing to be scared of. Here's a post in another thread with an explanation of how it's done. You need to do the edit for each emulator you don't want the text to appear on screen for. In my case i just edited it out of them all, and i think it looks a lot better. http://www.hyperspin-fe.com/forum/showthread.php?8036-Remove-game-name-publisher-year-text&p=74076&viewfull=1#post74076
evil eye Posted October 3, 2012 Posted October 3, 2012 Oh right. I was thinking of all that extra text that appears with game names occasionally, mostly on MAME.
evil eye Posted April 4, 2013 Posted April 4, 2013 Artwork looks great. Where is that thing holed up? Looks like the back room of a Game Stop or PC parts store.
gheoss Posted April 5, 2013 Author Posted April 5, 2013 thanks for your comments guys, yes we have a computer store.
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