Arcade Cabinets

[Mike Kelly]

Couple of arcade cabinets for my kids for Christmas.
Still waiting for marquee graphic to show up for the upright one so I can finish it.


Mike

[steve]

Neat cabinets Mike. I'm sure you kids will love them, and tell all the neighbour kids, and they will all come over to play on these machines. ;-)

[khaos]

Looks slick. I like it.

[CNYDWW]

Great Job,

I've always liked arcade cabinets. I've been thinking of an entertainment center styled like one.

Regards

[beacon14]

Nice cabinets! I always considered myself one of the groundbreakers of the video game movement - I used to play Pong! How old does that make me?

[David White]

Hi mike ,
The joy stick and the buttons ,can you tell me how to fined them.
Thanks , Dave

[Mike Kelly]

David

I use the x-arcade www.xgaming.com panels in all my cabinets,
I make my own panel layout and transfer the buttons, joystick and trackballs over,
X-Arcade also sells the items separately, but occasionally they have a good sale that make purchasing the whole panel cheaper
They also have an lifetime warranty.

There is a company http://www.arcadeguns.com that sells light guns, I've yet to use them but plan on installing on my next cabinet

Cheers

Mike

[Brett1970]

good stuff! i use my shopbot almost exclusively for reproducing classic arcade cabinets.. been at it for almost 5 years now, and make 60 different ones.

Here's a couple of mine:

http://i68.photobucket.com/albums/i24/dptwiz/011.jpg

http://i68.photobucket.com/albums/i24/dptwiz/Starwarsupright/starwars001.jpg

http://i68.photobucket.com/albums/i24/dptwiz/blackwidow/blackwidow007.jpg

http://i68.photobucket.com/albums/i24/dptwiz/cabinetssept2012/swcp124.jpg

[Mike Kelly]

Very nice,
I've always wanted to do one of the enclosed/driving cabinets


Mike

[Brett1970]

i bought my 14 year old daughter a ps3 for christmas, and a copy of Grand Turismo XL. I also have a really nice Logitech G27 steering wheel, that has the wheel, shifter, and foot pedals. I am going to make a custom seat, to mount all 3 pieces, and put it on recessed casters so she can park it in front of the tv.

Once i get it done i'll figure out how to post up the files for everyone.

[jerry_stanek]

She's going to have lots of boys coming around you do know that don't you

[MogulTx]

David,

I'd like to talk with you about details of the sit down driver cabinet.

I have an idea for a new display if I can get some parameters on your cabinet it might give me a leg up on designing the one we need. I would be replacing the monitor with a different type of display.

I'd be happy to email you offline about it if that works for you.

Thanks

[Mike Kelly]

David

You might want to check out this thread on cnczone
http://www.cnczone.com/forums/wooden_clocks/12043-mdf_racing_car_simulator_project-8.html#post225146

[myxpykalix]

Several years ago a botter had made a simulator cabinet that had a curved interior surface that when a vacumn was turned on it sucked a mylar sheet tight to this curve and gave him at least a 180 degree view of probably a projected image. It may have been a flight simulator. I just recall that it looked like a very ambitious project and very cool. Maybe do a search for flight simulator here

[Doug Haffner]

Awesome!
A couple years ago I built my first one...this is "Frankencade"...sort of a horror meets steampunk arcade cabinet. I'm ready to do another one!
At the time, I was new to it all...and used the x-arcade as is. Boy did I get beat up by the hard core Mame fans!

http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_KtCp0rl9gg4/SrzwzLPgLlI/AAAAAAAABXw/d8rn-WNzi7E/s1600/itsalive7b.jpg

I did a couple lithopanes for the sides...here's frank!

http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_KtCp0rl9gg4/Srzw9Swq3CI/AAAAAAAABX4/ZmMiGdYkA_k/s1600/7524_139084224421_594164421_2718326_6302209_n.jpg

http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_KtCp0rl9gg4/Srz2YU3CkeI/AAAAAAAABZg/i7wWLXMGgTs/s1600/cabinetprimed.jpg

[geneb]

Jack, that would be me. :)

The project site is at http://www.diy-cockpits.org/coll - the next version was delayed about a year due to lung cancer, but I expect to have a 737 sized version being built in Colorado in a couple of months.

g.

[myxpykalix]

Well Gene, hope things are going ok for you. That project was just so cool that you tend to remember things that ambitious. It seem like you were working from scratch and trying things that had not been done. Very cool!:D

[geneb]

Yep, doing just fine. 11 months cancer free so far. :)
The display is currently living in Wayne's house and I'll be building one for myself this spring.

I still have an arcade cabinet on my todo list. :D

g.

[myxpykalix]

Do you raise your hands every morning and say...."Thank you, Jesus!":eek:
I'm glad you're doing ok. I have a good friend who smokes like a stovepipe and when I talk to him he hacks and coughs and spits up stuff and I worry about him but that addiction has a hold of him pretty tight...:(


What would be REALLY cool is rather then just having a flight simulator would be if you could have one of these fast action jet fighter war games type of aerial dogfight games with fast action....I can see it now...I'll be Maverick and you can be my "wingman"
"I feel the need...the need for speed..."

[geneb]

I quit smoking about 12 years ago. Didn't help. :)

There's a few places around the country where you can do what you're talking about, but none local to me. :(

g.

[shilala]

I've always thought those sit-down glass top cabinets were as cool as arcade cabinets come.
It never occurred to me that an arcade cabinet could be such a sensational piece of art as the Frankencade. That'd just be stellar in a basement entertainment area.
Pinball is my favorite, I can see myself doing a badass pinball cabinet now. Thank you for the inspiration, gentlemen!!!

[chiloquinruss]

Having been to a couple of Maker Faires with ShopBot I have followed the neat stuff the pinballers are up to. Here is a link that in itself has more links for lots of great resources. Russ

http://makezine.com/08/pinball/