A Few More Photos

Just a few photos of some of the work. Added a power and credit button to the underside of the Mario Machine. You can see the iPac wired using the Jamma standard. Also included an image of the monitor installed....well partly installed. Lastly a picture of the volume control mounted. Love the small touches, really looking forward to wrapping this up. I'm looking for a second pair of GunCon, or even GunCon2. Would like to paint them red and add them to the machine.I plan on using MaLa to do some lists and refine the games by genre, adding gun games for any console that supported gun games. Duck Hunt on Mario cabinet................so awesome ! so

New News

I haven't shared any info on my blog for quite awhile now. I've been slowly making progress on my machines, and I'm happy to say that all 4 machines are almost at %100. I've found out about some cool products and some cool tips. I thought as always I would share the info on my blog. My DK JR is %100 complete ! Everything working well and configured how I like it. The PC isn't the most powerful but it does the trick. I've hooked up everything to a smartstrip powerbar, I picked these up for $20 online at Best Buy Canada. These things are awesome, I actually got a second one for my Mario Bros. They have a "master" that once turned on turns on its "slaves." I have my master as the PC and the slaves are the marquee light fixture, speakers, and monitor. For the fourth open connection I decided I'd wire DK into it. The smartstrip is awesome because it kills the power to everthing and doesn't require me to turn on and off the power bar. Highly suggest that people get these for MAME projects. My DK is also %100 complete. It is wired for Jamma and features a 60-in-1 game board. As mentioned above no power switch was added to the machine and reaching inside and to the back (or around) wasn't really an option. I've plugged this into the smartstrip so when DK JR goes on this does also. For the DK I used a standard Home Depot light fixture, I actually use the same one in all my machines. The cord wasn't long enough to make it into the powerbar so I hacked a dollar store extension cord and tied the fixture into the power supply. DK now %100 done and loving it. My Popeye machine is wired Jamma and layed out with a two player, two button per side layout. I have an original Popeye control panel also, but the two player two button layout gives me so many more options. I actually have Bad Dudes in this machine and that was one of my favorite games. I also picked up WWF Superstars and WWF Wrestlefest for this machine. I'll slowly build a board collection if the price is right. I'd like to even add a Jamma switcher to it, but I'm in no rush. The Popeye is not yet at the %100 mark, however it is wired and ready to go. The monitor was very dim and a friend of mine has capped it for me. I haven't yet picked it up, but I'm sure its awesome. All Popeye needs is the monitor installe, a new bulb for the marquee and hooking up the -5V for Bad Dudes. Now onto Mario.....oh Mario............oh oh oh Mario. A friend of mine gave me his old PC, a nice dual core machine with a nice videocard and a ton of ram. It's a nice machine but it's giving me trouble. I've had to format the thing 3 times. Can't get the audio to work, nor can I get the videocard to work. I've decided to walk away from the PC and slow it down a lil, no rushing, no rushing. Do what I can when I can. With the PC becoming an issue I decided that I would walk away from it and do some of the stuff I had put off. The machine was painted and ready to go, molding installed, side art purchased, and honestly everything just waiting on the PC. I had it in my head that I would do the PC and then bang out the machine in one day. When I realized that wasn't an option I decided I would do things out of sequence and add the PC when done. That was the best thing I could have done ! This weekend I managed to install the marquee, install the speakers and mount the volume control to the inside of the coin door. Honestly I've noticed that the small things make a big difference. The powerstrip is awesome, as is the volume control on the inside of the coin door. So cool, for $20 this Logitech 2.1 system I got was well worth it. So marquee is in, speakers are in, iPac is wired using a hacked Jamma harness and color coded as per Jamma standard. It makes things so nice and clean. I also added an extension cord to extend the marquee light cord. This machine will also be hooked up using a smartstrip. Lastly I managed to test fit the monitor. I'll be adding a few more supports this week, perhaps forming a bezel. This pretty much brings me to a complete stage pending the PC install. The only thing I don't like is my control panel, I kinda rushed and dont like how it turned out. I'll redo it shortly. Fingers crossed the PC comes together !