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Hey guys, and for the third time today, thanks for looking. This is my 3rd ever build. And i am beyond blown away by my own skills.. Sounds cocky, but if you knew how novice, and how much research, trial error, luck and learning i did to achieve this one. EVERYTHING was new to me, and it took about a year to build. The led lights, the lexan cutting and bending, the pc mounting, EVERY SINGLE THING was a daunting and new challenge to me, and anyone that has seen it has been blown away. It was built for my friends mancave, and id like to go get much better pictures, and video as well as footage of the system running, the front end, etc. I took the time to program different LED animations for menus, different emulators, to light up game used buttons, or menu useable buttons. I custom re did the front end theme.. Every single damn thing about this is as customized as can possibly be. Not much else to say except answering any questions. Compared to my first two builds, this is like a goodyear space ship tire compared to the first stone wheel. The pc was mounted so gosh darn cleanly. Also a few features. I made it so you can reach into the coin door under the cp, remove 4 bolts easily and the whole CP pops off. I built the WHOLE system inside the CP so this arcade is 100% transportable and can simply be carried and set on top of a bar or table!. I also made the tower of the body, and the base removable for full access in small rooms or hallways. Again i wish i had more video of the whole thing powering up and rocking out, but ill get to that. I hope some of you can share this enjoyment. The creative ideas such as art was suggested by my friend who it was for.. I personally dont like the cp art with the marquees, but its simply what he wanted. He found one "mame invaders" image on google, so i took that idea and just went to town on the custom artwork. Look at the other 2 machines i posted then look at this. Im in awe and love it. Thanks for looking, BUT THANK YOU FOR ALL THE ENDLESS HELP IN MAKING THAT HAPPEN!

Hello and thanks all for looking! Ive been here for quite awhile now, and while I do ask and get a lot of help, if failed to update some of my projects so you fine people can see the results.. So todays post is for my 2nd ever build. It was meant to be a bartop arcade, and i basically just drew a random shape and went with it. Basically winged it. Now originally it was for my girlfriend at the time who loved spongebob, so you will see its original birth as a sponge bob themed arcade which i think came out great. After that our relationship ended up like most old arcades, worn out and in the garbage for other people to take... And thus became the transformation into a new cabinet. I stripped it down and re did it. It was for my tattoo artist. A few things to note, any and all defects, problems, or things that dont look great, im fully aware of. It was an amateur build, especially compared to my pedestal after that. Everything was basically thrown together at the end to finally just get rid of it. I feel like i achieved a pretty damn clean and nice machine for the given circumstances. The only thing im not crazy about is my pc mounting in the back. I have refined that method by a million, but this one looks rough. I tried the method of keeping it half in the case and cutting out what i dont need. Regardless of my rant, i present to you a bunch of pictures and the rise, fall and rebirth of my 2nd mame machine ever. Thank you for looking! It appears for one reason or another i dont have a picture of the spongebob fully down with all artwork installed at once, but in seperate pictures you can see the eventual marquee, bezel and cp art. image hosting 10mb limit

Look here and here as well.

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Found this: http://www.madrigaldesign.it/sim/index.php I'll put it on me list... I'd never heard of them before

Oh - now that's a keep! How cool do they look! Check out this build for an amazing job. Some fella squeezed a PC + a 7" screen into an old micro arcade that runs hyperspin (..excuse me...) and emus up to SNES on it http://forum.arcadecontrols.com/index.php/topic,145663.msg1515227.html#msg1515227

Hi - I moved your thread to the General forum as it is not a media project. Please provide copies of your pinballx.ini and log.txt (Click here for additional information on how to find these files and others that may be required) so we can take a look at your basic settings and log information. Zip a copy of your Pinball FX2.ixml file and attach it as well in your reply to this post. This can be found in the \PinballX\Databases\Pinball FX2 folder. My guess (which is why I am requesting these files) is that the media and some of your game file entries are not matching the file names referenced by Pinball FX2 and Steam. You can try changing File Matching in the Setup program to No, restarting PinballX to see if more games show up and the sounds are enabled, however, it is good practice to ensure they are named correctly. To know what to name the game files in the Game Name field for each game via Game List Manager, you will need to locate them in \steamapps\common\Pinball FX2\data_steam folder. You do not need to name the file with the .pxp extension. I use File Matching in the Setup program set to Yes. What happens then is PinballX will use whatever name you put in the Description field of Game List Manager as the name to match with your media. This will require you to rename your media files (i.e.,., audio, backglass, DMD videos, Wheel images, etc.) to match. Either way, you have some work ahead of you, but you will like the results once finished.

Looks like I'm outvoted on pac-man, although that anti-nostalgia-triggering video of bad 80s pap did little to change my opinion, null! *urgh* *shudders* @ the 80s Think you highlight the difficulties with this kinda thing, Classic - it's how far back you go to define 'genre-defining' - for instance, World of Warcraft: ?? or maybe even, for doom: But still, I persist... Really!? No Ocarina of time?

I briefly get the PinballX loading screen. Check your wait time. I had turned mine down from the default 20 seconds to 12 seconds.

I've played with Hyperspin a lot and am using bezels on a lot of the emulators. I would think any bezel that works with an emulator in Hyperspin would work under rocketlauncher

AND THEN THE TRANSFORMATION. Not many pics of the change because it was basically just paint and new artwork/buttons.. Looking at it now, im pretty proud of the end result. I wish i know half of what i know now, then. But here ya go guys! My 2nd build.. The others are to come soon pic host

C'mon now Stigz, none of those other games can lay claim to this masterpiece. Live it, love it, be it. (side note: I had no idea the Big Lebowski was ever a recording artist)

I'd also love those!

I am currently finishing off the snes database. The nes one is progressing nicely as well and work will continue on that after snes.

Q. Do you have to donate again to get the latest table updates? A. No, I add anyone (who had donated in any way or contacted me to help with the project), to a mailing list I maintain and then when I have a update pack done and ready. I send out a notification and direct everyone to download the update. My latest (Update) is a lot more than normal it's almost all New. I have been working my ass off creating media for the newest Pinball FX2 tables and replacing all of the Pinball FX2 Media with newer and better quality versions. See below for more info on what's changed in my update. What's Changed!All 61 table videos were recorded from scratch showing more table action / flashing lights by capturing actual game play and then edited by hand to run in a seamless loop using Adobe Premiere ProAll new High Quality Audio was recorded for all 61 tables with clean fades in / out for super clean looping using Adobe Premiere ProAll 61 tables DMD videos were re-checked and edited for Smoother Looping using Adobe Premiere ProAll New Real DMD Video was created using a special square pixel perfect capture for cleaner display on Real DMD displays using Adobe Premiere Pro on all 61 tables. What's New!A whole new media pack was added for GameEX and HyperSpin users with desktop / landscape view for all 61 tables, it's huge 2.53GBNew Wheel Logo, Playfield, Audio, DMD, Real DMD video, Back-glass, and still images for the following five tables. Portal | This one was easyStar Wars - Rebels | Remixed the DMD video from the game to look better.Marvel - Age of Ultron | Made custom DMD video by hand, made DMD logo and from captured internal game play screens. Pain in the ass!Castle Storm | Remixed the DMD video from the game to look better.Wild West Rampage | Made custom DMD video by hand, made logo and from captured DMD video. Pain in the ass! Also please consider donating again it takes allot of time and money to keep up with hosting bills and new table releases.I have been working on this update everyday for months, I can't even count how much time I worked on this new content for you guys and I don't even have a pinball cabinet to enjoy it on yet. If you want a super clean media pack with ongoing updates.Goto NukeLauncher.com.

I've only just started thinking about it but I think there is a lot of potential for that. Its certainly a more exciting time for MAME now and I like the changes too. It does pose a few minor problems with the changes but nothing big. I am hoping they will be addressed. Id like to look into "Software Lists" at some point in the future and again I see potential. I certainly won't be forcing anything on people though. People will be free to choose whatever MAME build or other emulator they want to use. Right now the official MAME kind of brute forces MESS onto front ends. I do like the new project direction but I don't like that.