My HyperSpin cabinet

[warlordag]

Took a lot of total time, and I had to fabricate a control panel since the original wasn't exactly designed for 2 players.

The coin door works 100%, so all Mame games require quarters.

I'm running Hyperspin with Mame, NES, and Turbografx right now. Going to add Sega, Daphne, and SNES eventually.

I just ordered the Marquee and CPO tonight.

I'd appreciate any and all feedback. I tried to keep it simple, since hate the crazy mame cabs.

[Nucklez]

That looks awesome! I am working on converting two MAME cabinets from an old Taito Space Dungeon cabinet, and an old generic one. My brother is helping me, and he has claimed the generic cabinet. What is your control panel made out of? That is one of our hang ups right now. Your CPO is almost exactly the same dimensions as ours, and we are trying to determine which material to use. We're pondering anything from getting a metal shop to bend some metal, to trying to heat up and bend a sheet of plexiglass.

We also configured our coin doors to work, but we actually just set them to push the coin return buttons to hit a switch, so we dont' physically have to use quarters. Playng a game like TMNT takes WAY too much money. :) Good job man, and keep up the good wor!

[councilface]

Thats really nice and exactly the same "style" as mine. I also hate the frankenpanels (Although being able to play marble madness and arkanoid would be good - Im thinking of creating another panel to take care of this and driving games). I used steel (and powdercoating) for mine (I work in motorsport so I had all the kit to get it done).

Knuckelz, this may seem an odd question but you dont have the high score on Monaco GP do you?

[Nucklez]

Nope Councilface, I haven't played any of the games here yet. I may start though.

I've actually designed the area around our control panels to be installed exactly the same way the original Taito control panel was installed on my cabinet. I didn't want to cut up the original steel on that control panel, but I want a very similar one and very similar artwork as the original one on mine. I also designed it so we could easily unplug the control panels from the Keywiz keyboard encoder so we can switch the CPO's out with driving wheels in the future. I've also thought of adding these to our cabinets too.
http://www.happcontrols.com/driving/50806001.htm
I think that would be awesome.

[councilface]

Aaah Apologies then, Theres a guy in Nu Joisey called Richie Knucklez (SP?) that owns a kick arse arcade (He also has the top score on monaco GP). I'll be visiting in July. Do you visit the BYOAC site? The advice I've found on there is invaluable when you're building a cab. I like the pedals BTW. I need some of those bad boys!

[Nucklez]

Yes, I used to frequent BYOAC daily! I've also built a bartop arcade that used to be on BYOAC until I lost my webspace. I've put my website back up, but I haven't added the finished bartop arcade to it yet. You can check out my full size cabinets at www.nucklez.com though. I have no idea what camera I used for those pics, but they aren't very pretty. I'll take some new ones, and post some of my bartop cabinet soon. Oh, the bartop's CPO is made of wood and plexiglass. I'm not sure I can pull that off with these full size cabinets.

[SophT]

that's a sweet cab. I've been contemplating mameing my pole position cab into a generic driver cab since it has pedals, but I have a different question related to the pedals:

could you use them in shooting games like time crisis? I'm currently building a dedicated stepmania/shooter cab since they both require a large screen and minimal CP (SM needs 6 buttons I think...) and I want to figure out a way to get the foot pedal you need for Time Crisis series...

I've also though about hollowing out the back of my PP steering wheel and fitting it over a spinner so that it's detachable, kind of a convertible driver.

warlordag: post pics when you have it done with marquee and everything :)

[councilface]

Cant see why they wouldnt work for time crisis. I know nothing about pots but the microswitch version could just be assigned to the correct key - No?

[warlordag]

The art came in the other day, and I finally got it together yesterday.

I'm glad to finally be finished with this thing, but I think it came out great.