Thursday, 28 March 2013

Side art and marquee

WTB this Batman themed side art with marquee.
 Anyone willing to spot me $100?

First working test

 Draw currently full of cords
 Monitor in temp position
 First run with all the gear inside, looks good so far.
PS2 controllers just don't cut it tho!
 PC Logitec Speakers and Sub will do for now
 PC gear hidden under the draw
Temp monitor bracket from inside cabinet

Tuesday, 26 March 2013

The new gear

New Stuff that will be going in the cabinet:

22" Acer TFT (max res 1680x1050)
another 1TB HDD (we need even more music)
2x 8" mid range speakers (can't remember the brand)
2x 1.5" dome tweeters (Orion car audio brand, not pictured)


The Arcade Cabinet:


PC Gear almost ready to go in to cabinet

The play area, looks like I'll need a new one... 


The Cabinet with front draw removed and all cleaned ready for a sand and paint

The tear down



 "Custom" :p Amp inside an old empty DVD  drive
 The Amp's transformer wired directly into the PSU (dodgy!)

 The old AMP with its massive 5watts of raw power, this just wont cut it anymore
All the PC gear ripped out ready to be transplanted into the cabinet

PC Specs for anyone interested:
Intel E8400 (3GHz)
8Gb DDR2 RAM
Zotac GeForce GTX275
19" HP TFT (Max Res of 1280x1024) - Not going back in
1Tb HDD
450W PSU
5W Amp (not going back in)
3W Speaker (not going back in)

Current setup

This is what the current setup looks like





Software setup:
Windows XP PROformance edition (approx 700mb install)
Hyperspin v1.2
A vast majority of emulators and their ROM's
Including all Mugen (Fighting games)
The Jukebox'er for all music and music videos

It begins

This will be a place to hold all info (and mistakes) regarding the move of the old Arcade and Jukebox Machine (just a PC right now) to an actual Arcade Cabinet.