Farkanoid Base Repair

This Arkanoid in a Frogger cabinet (FArkanoid) had water damage on the bottom so I rebuilt the base. Fist I cut 10" off the bottom, then rebuilt... using some creative engineering liberties...

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Frogger Monitor Mounting

Got a groovy new way to mount a PC monitor in a Frogger style cabinet. It matches the angle of the original much closer to the way I was mounting 19" monitors. Where before I just used a shelf and pressed it up to the bezel. Now I just use 3 support points like I use on Pac style cabinets, and on the Make Trax as well. Block the sides in and you are ready to go!!! See picture. For additional images, go to Slideshow

Lowes Rulez

Went to Lowes for some hardware, they keep that place a lot cleaner than HD... I was actually able to find stuff... very pleasant experience.

I got some nifty right-angle brackets... check 'em out:
the small ones were only 51 cents!!! Can't wait to try them out.

Turntable broke...

Turntable in the FAC broke, only goes one way, thought it was the microswitch in the controller but not...

Painted the 2 Frogger cabinets, went ahead with the dark gray, and painted the Tmolding on the Farkanoid to see how it comes out... we are going ghetto with that one!!!

Got to try to use my time wisely, last few days I just piddled away, found some interesting videos on Youtube but still did not get shit done arcade-wise...

Shit!!! got to go get ink carts for my printer...

OK... got the printer carts, printed some ghetto-marquees for the Frogger... now the carts are really empty... could not install the printer drivers on my new XP install so I had to resort to the old Install...

2/18/09

Primed the Frogger. Built the base on the Farkanoid and put some 2x4s and casters on it. came out ineresting. Now got to decide what color to paint it. Thinking some kind of blue to match the Arkanoid marquee and the generic bezel. The MW control panel is going to need some attention for installing the leaf switch buttons... .

2/17/09

Cut about 10" off that Farkanoid... made a base for it...

Mounted a monitor into that Frogger, got the angle closer to original...

Cold last night, bondo on the inner edges did not work too well... ended up just sanding the crap out of those... will prime heavily and paint...

MultiWilliams

Here is that MultiWilliams I did for Ted back in December...

Wilsonator shipped...

Wilsonator shipped...
Good weather lately... gonna rain soon...
Wednesday already, got Tony's CP spinner to install...

Madhouse at work!!!

Had 3 test running at the same time... that was a madhouse, and time went on by sloooooowly!!!

Got Scotts cabinet playable....

Crystal Castles Multi

Added Marble Madness to the Crystal Castles cabinet... running desktop and CC at -r 256x240 and MM to what ever makes the characters crisp... the bottom is cut off a little but that's OK... tried a bunch of different resolutions... but it wants the desktop at 256x240 to run CC the best...

Journey

Here is the Journey with the Wico leaf switch joystick and the NOS red balltop installed. Tuned the switches and it plays great!!!

Superbowl Sunday 09

Got the correct trackball color on the Crystal Castles. Now I just got to figure out how I want to light it up. Also put a NOS Red balltop handle on the Journey and tuned the Leaf Switches. Works great now, not that it did not before, but the handle was too tall. Now it is great.

Also went to Doug's and got some more junk, including a neat little Mr Do cocktail. That will be a fun project.

Also discovered Pedro Altamiranda and remembering the Carnaval in Colon that Marina used to take me to. And I can picture exactly what this joker is singing about!!! Because I was there, and I know the Panamanian slang that he is using...Those were some profound grooves!!! I listen now and it is like it was engrained into my psyche from a young age... I got to find more of this stuff!!!