Art Files!

As promised, I want to make my art files available, so that anyone doing a similar project can benefit from my work. All that I ask is that you send me some pics of your hard work!

First off, here is my Control Panel Overlay. Get it here!

 

 Here is the partial original version that I started with. Get it here! 

(Link Includes Original Marquee)

For comparison, here is my final design, along with the original panel. As with the rest of my custom work, I wanted my new graphics to fit the original Space Duel theme.

My panel, printed and installed

Original panel as I received it with my cabinet

Now for the marquee. I have already posted the photos of this earlier on in the blog, but I will post it again so all of the artwork is together in one place.

My Marquee. Get it here!

Original Marquee. Get it here! 
(Link Includes Original CPO)

Enjoy! I hope that by putting these files out here, I am able to help someone else out and save them some time. Feel free to contact me if you have any questions or have any trouble with the files that I have linked.

Custom Coin Door Labels

When I was a kid, the arcade that I spent all of my time and money in was Aladdin's Castle at our local mall. I had a birthday party or two there and that's what comes to mind when I think of what an arcade should be. Because of this, I have been looking for Aladdin's Castle tokens since I got my machine up and running. Recently, I was able to pick up some tokens, so I took it upon myself to update the coin door graphics to match the switch to tokens.

Original label along with redesigned 25¢ and Tokens

I simply printed them on cardstock with a laser printer and then cut them out. If anyone is interested in the source files, here they are. Feel free to use them as you wish.

If anyone stumbles on this blog and has some of these Aladdin's Castle tokens laying around, send me a message and I will gladly take them off of your hands!

 

Overlays, Motherboards, and USB ports, oh my!

Wow it has been forever since I updated the blog. Well since the last post, I have played a ton of arcade games, had some arcade parties, and hung a Local High Score board on the wall opposite from the cab.  I've got to say, the high-score board was a great idea! It has 12-14 color marquees printed about 3 inches in size and taped to a big dry erase board. Whenever we have arcade parties, we usually tweak our game list and then everyone fights to make it in the top three scorers for one of the games. A few games that we have had some heated competition on was Robotron, Ms. Pac Man, and

Aside from enjoying the cab, I have replaced the motherboard and cpu to a intel board and pentium 4 3.2ghz as well as upgraded the video card to a radeon 9800gt. The upgrade was not too much greater than what was in there before, but I had to swap out the parts because the old motherboard died on me... right before I was going to have people over for a party, of course :)

Also, I finally got around to ordering the marquee and control panel overlay from http://www.gameongrafix.com (formerly mamemarquees).

  They turned out better than I expected. The overlay has held up well with some aggressive playing and isn't showing any signs of wear. I will upload detailed photos of each later when I get home.

Also, I added a panel above the coin mechs with two usb ports. This combined with the two playstation dual shock clone usb pc controllers I got off of ebay and now, for games like TMNT, X-Men, and The Simpsons, I can plug in two controllers and we can play 4 players!

I still need to get black, round headed screws to hold the panel on, but it works great as is! 

Thats it for now. As usual, if after reading through all of this, you have any questions, feel free to drop me an email--I'll be glad to help!