Retrotron - New Mame Cab Project

[scott]

Thanky. I can honestly say that this project involved a lot of blood, sweat and (almost) tears. 

[turf]

That looks awesome. You, sir, have real talent.

[scott]

That looks awesome. You, sir, have real talent.

Thanks!

[ko1ru]

So what did your friend think of it? 

[scott]

Oh they love it. They had a party the night that I brought it over and there were like eight 7-8 year olds playing on it. There were a few hiccups, but I got the bugs fixed and it's pretty much fully operational. Of course, he's using my PC for the moment until I get the one for his cab fixed... I kinda borked it. ha

[jcalder8]

That looks awesome now that it's complete, I don't know how I missed that you had finished it!

[scott]

Thanks man! It looks really good in person, I wish that the pictures showed it better. But without professional lighting it's really hard to get things to look their best with just a digital camera in the basement. I'm really surprised with how well the metallic paint turned out, I was expecting it to look gaudy.  I'm glad its in it's new home for sure and now Matt helped me fix the PC for it so I'll be able to get my cab up and running again in no time.

[scott]

And as of last night I have the PC ready to go. We created a minor issue with how the PC loads up when matt got it running again. somehow we ended up with an extra user and all the settings transfered over to it. The xp login screen wouldn't vanish and when I set it to auto log in, it would sign in the original admin account with default settings.

I got it all set around 11pm last night though and its just a matter of doing some quick soldering on the power button and we should be ready to rock... again

[scott]

The power on button has now been bypassed and the PC is getting swapped into it's final home tonight! woot!

Also, here's a little before and after

[jcalder8]

Looks great Scott!

[scott]

Braved a snow storm tonight in order to do the PC swap. His PC hooked up no problems, I did a little touch up paint on the side art where we scratched it and everything is running smoothly. Then I headed back home and reinstalled my PC back into the SHMUP and got the graphics all switched back around.

Was it the smartest move to drive in crap weather to just swap PCs? Prolly not. But it was well worth it. I'm now officially done with the Retrotron project and I have my mame cab up and running again. So I'm really pleased atm.

[soera]

I'm now officially done with the Retrotron project

You know what that means ... Time to start on my DQ arcade.

[scott]

Are you prepared to buy me every game I want for the rest of my life, regardless of price?

[soera]

Do you age like a rat? If not, then Im not sure

[scott]

Nope. My family is pretty long lived actually.