[CABINET] Red Cabinet

[oxbow]

Hi guys, after some "arcade" inactivity I decided to get some new cabs. Acquired myself two cabs yesterday, a red and a black one. First I want to restore the red cabinet. I replaced all the old buttons, putted a TV LCD inside, but did get bad viewing angle, so I placed it upside down, rotated XP and the viewing angle is now perfect; also from a distance. The controls are hooked up on a Xin-Mo USB controller, the coindoor is also fully working (except the lightbulbs inside which I have to fix), and it has WIFI and bluetooth on board I also can use my wireless keyboard and mouse.

I still got a lot of work to do, like replacing the joysticks, put in a decent marquee, fixing the light for marquee, renewing the plexiglass for the control panel, put in the PC-mainboard and HD (now I quickly placed the whole desktop in it), change/add good speakers and drill some holes for a 4th button per player and some admin buttons. I also need to put a glass with some small bezel in it. As last I want to print and add arcade vinyl on the sides, and put some bottom and back ledstrips. And then I can start on my black cabinet

here are some pictures so far...

My black cabinet to do..

grtz

[tthurman]

Couple of good looking cabinets you got there. Love the chrome T molding on the red one!

[stigzler]

Cool joys on that red one. What was the original game? Nice renovation job

P.S. - Is that an ash-tray on the left hand side of the CP!?!?

lol

[oxbow]

@stigzler

Yes thats an ash-tray on the left side So this cabinet was probably for use (as a rent) in a cafe or lunapark, it's a nice gadget, it remembers me the times I was allowed to smoke in a cafe and constantly spoil ashes over the joystickholes and burn the knobs ;p but I quited smoking for a while now and if I want to place 6 buttons/player I have to remove it to make space for a bigger plexiglass.

This weekend I gonna drill holes to have 4 buttons/player, that's more as enough for me. I was thinking to drill two extra holes in the upperplate where the speakers are (just behind the marquee) to have a couple admin buttons, like an "escape" key and extra "coin"key. Today I also bought some a stronger (second hand) PC, a 3,4 Ghz pentium with 2GB ram and a 6600 Videocard, since my current desktop in it has no videocard at all and is some old pentium from the late 90s..

to be continued...

[oxbow]

OK, added a "escape" button in the top

and drilled a hole and attached a fourth button. I am out of red buttons so I will make a hole for a fourth button for the second player when they arrive.

Now fixing marquee lighting and adding some speakers..