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Arcade Cabinet: Day Two

After making a trip to the local hardware store to purchase some paint and some material to fix the piping to my sink I continued working on the arcade cabinet around 1pm.

Having a new box of screws I began attaching the left over leads to the left side. After the rest of the leads were attached it was time to move the project from the garage to the basement for final assembly.

Knowing that the completed cabinet would be to heavy to carry into the basement bar, my workout room was transformed into a work room where the two sides were connected with the front and rear braces.

braces

After putting the braces in I added the floor, monitor shelf, and back panel. Around 3pm my father showed up with his reciprocating saw so that I could cut the nasty old galvanized pipe and replace it with a new pvc pipe… a whole other project. Once the plumbing project was complete my father stuck around cutting out the rest of the panels.

finished

While my father cut all of the other pieces, I attached them and made the keyboard drawer completing the project shown above (minus the bottom door, it is not attached for painting purposes).

At about 8pm I added the casters and rolled it into the bar where I could add a coat of primer and clean up the workout room.

primer

I removed the keyboard drawer and finished up this evening with a nice coat of primer. I did notice that I forgot to drill some more ventilation holes on the back panel, these along with the speaker and controller holes will be drilled before the final paint job.

Now I just need a cool marquee and side art to add after I paint the final black coat…

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Posted by Fred, on 04/20/08 10:40 PM Bookmark this post Digg Reddit Blogg-Buzz StumbleUpon

Arcade Cabinet: Day One

Today around 1pm I began building the arcade cabinet that will house a computer dedicated to playing arcade games.

At 10am my father who is a retired engineer and I went over the plans that I designed and headed out to the hardware store. At 1pm we returned to my house and started to lay out the side design on one of the boards.

Design

This process took longer than I expected because we had to readjust some of the measurements and dimensions once seeing them in real life size. After playing around with the measurements we finished drawing the design on the board and began to cut out the side around 2pm.

Numerous precautions were taken and with careful alignment of the straight edge we began to cut out the side of the cabinet with my circular saw. The cuts were horrible and the blade was smoking and burning the wood. My dad thought that the wood was just too dense so we tried numerous methods only to end up back at the hardware store to purchase newer sharper blades.

After shrinking the measurements down from the original size, because of the bad cuts, we finally cut out the first side around 6pm.

9pm

I stopped working around 9pm this evening after cutting out both sides and attaching the leads for the front and back.

Tomorrow I will cut out the front and back boards, assemble the whole cabinet, and primer a completed arcade cabinet…

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Posted by Fred, on 04/19/08 9:46 PM Bookmark this post Digg Reddit Blogg-Buzz StumbleUpon

PreFight Kombat!!!

As all of us in the comic blog community prepare for Bahlactus’ newest Friday Night Fight: Classic Edition - Black & White, take a quick peek into the future before the Klassic Kombat begins:

Mortal Kombat 8:
Mortal Kombat vs The DC Universe

Batman's back was once broken... what will Sub Zero do to it?

Mortal Kombat Online and Blog@Newsarama has confirmed the rumors that Midway will continue to put their unique, and violent, twist on the fighting genre. The Mortal Kombat was created as a reaction to Street Fighter II and now it seems that Midway is again responding to the success of Marvel vs Capcom with - Mortal Kombat vs The DC Universe.

Today, Midway Games confirmed what had been rumored for a while: the first next-generation Mortal Kombat title, up until now called “Mortal Kombat 8″ by the community, is officially titled Mortal Kombat vs. DC Universe. As the title suggests, it will be a crossover with the characters and setting of DC Comics.

Mortal Kombat Online


I am a huge fan of Capcom’s fighting games, and only Capcom’s fighting games. Marvel vs Capcom was the first game that I played when testing the hardware for the MAME arcade machine. I never had much love for the Mortal Kombat series since I played my fighting games at the arcade and there were only so many quarters I could waste mastering Street Fighter II and not many more left to learn Mortal Kombat.

With the love I hold for the DCU, I can’t see myself passing this up seeing how I spent many hours playing Justice League Task Force for the Sega Genesis.

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Posted by Fred, on 04/18/08 2:04 PM Bookmark this post Digg Reddit Blogg-Buzz StumbleUpon