[IMG]http://i.imgur.com/jT7W6.png[/img]
[i]May as well call it >2K13 at this rate.[/i]
Man, I wished there were more BBcodes, like for text alignment and colors.
The >2K12 is a modern-styled cocktail arcade cabinet with a style inspired by Web 3.0 websites. Technically, planning for >2K12 began right after the semester ended at the end of May, but barely any progress was made. Since then, I have been...acquiring games...and started working up a list of required parts. But enough of introductory crap, let's bring in some content!
[b]Style[/b]
So here's the original sketch.
[t]http://i.imgur.com/EVNO6.gif[/t]
[i]At least try Bagman.[/i]
After many a day on Dribbble, searching for inspiration and good colors, I have the palette down pat.
#3F3F3F
#A2A2A1
#037771
#D73E28
#F8991D
#EAD898
As for parts, I have the Excel spreadsheet right here. Copy-pasted and formatted for your foruming convenience.
[b]Parts[/b]
After popping in a bit of Diablo Swing Orchestra and Megadeth into the WinAmp, I buckled down to a crucial matter: the innards. MAME works in a rather funny way. Everything is emulated by the CPU. The video, the audio, the logic, all of it. A video card can emulate a CRT display using HLSL effects. This impacts the performance generally. Most games work fluently enough at 800x600, medium-type HLSL effects, and a Radeon Mobility HD 4250 w/ 256MB VRAM. Unfortunately, shops really aren't carrying anything that powerful, so I'll settle on a Radeon 5450 w/ 2GB VRAM.
[table][tr][td]Arcade Items[/td][td]Price[/td][td]Quantity[/td][td]Total[/td][/tr]
[tr][td][url=http://www.arcadeemulator.net/cgi-bin/shop/cp-app.cgi?usr=51F9363255&rnd=9338708&rrc=N&affl=&cip=&act=&aff=&pg=prod&ref=Miniature+Momentary+Pushbutton&cat=Pushbutton+s&catstr=HOME:Pushbuttons:Pushbutton+s]Miniature Round Pushbutton: Black Bezel, Red Center[/url][/td][td]$0.75[/td][td]4[/td][td]$3.00[/td][/tr]
[tr][td][url=http://www.arcadeemulator.net/cgi-bin/shop/cp-app.cgi?usr=51F9363255&rnd=9338708&rrc=N&affl=&cip=&act=&aff=&pg=prod&ref=Miniature+Momentary+Pushbutton&cat=Pushbutton+s&catstr=HOME:Pushbuttons:Pushbutton+s]Miniature Round Pushbitton: Black Bezel, White Center[/url][/td][td]$0.75[/td][td]2[/td][td]$1.50[/td][/tr]
[tr][td][url=http://www.arcadeemulator.net/cgi-bin/shop/cp-app.cgi?usr=51F9363255&rnd=9338708&rrc=N&affl=&cip=&act=&aff=&pg=prod&ref=Miniature+Momentary+Pushbutton&cat=Pushbutton+s&catstr=HOME:Pushbuttons:Pushbutton+s]Miniature Rectangle Pushbutton: Black Bezel, Red Center[/url][/td][td]$0.85[/td][td]2[/td][td]$1.70[/td][/tr]
[tr][td][url=http://www.paradisearcadeshop.com/en/paradise-arcade-balltops/558-bone-ball-10mm-ball-top.html]Bone ball 38mm Balltop[/url][/td][td]$6.00[/td][td]2[/td][td]$12.00[/td][/tr]
[tr][td][url=http://www.paradisearcadeshop.com/en/seimitsu-joysticks/5-seimetsu-ls-32.html]Seimitsu LS-32 Arcade Joystick (8-way, switchable)[/url][/td][td]$17.95[/td][td]2[/td][td]$35.90[/td][/tr][tr][td][url=http://www.paradisearcadeshop.com/en/pushbuttons/315-white-short-barrel-concave-pushbutton.html[/url]White, short-barrel, concave pushbutton[/url][/td][td]$1.25[/td][td]4[/td][td]$5.00[/td][/tr][tr][td][url=http://forum.arcadecontrols.com/index.php?topic=114744.0]Zero-Delay Arcade Control Encoder (USB, gamepad)[/url][/td][td]$17.50[/td][td]2[/td][td]$35.00[/td][/tr][tr][td]Subtotal[/td][td][/td][td][/td][td]$94.90[/td][/tr][/table]
[table][tr][td]PC Items[/td][td]Price[/td][td]Quantity[/td][td]Total[/td][/tr]
[tr][td][url=http://www.microcenter.com/single_product_results.phtml?product_id=0389068]Hewlett-Packard DX5150 (Refurbished)[/url][/td][td]$99.99[/td][td]1[/td][td]$99.99[/td][/tr]
[tr][td][url=http://www.microcenter.com/single_product_results.phtml?product_id=0391232]XFX One R-Series Radeon HD 5450 2GB DDR3 PCIe 2.0 x16[/url][/td][td]$54.99[/td][td]1[/td][td]$59.99[/td][/tr]
[tr][td][url=http://www.microcenter.com/single_product_results.phtml?product_id=0378636]Dell 17" Monitor (Refurbished)[/url][/td][td]$64.99[/td][td]1[/td][td]$64.99[/td][/tr]
[tr][td][url=http://www.microcenter.com/single_product_results.phtml?product_id=0375698]Inland ProHT 2 Channel 3 Watt USB Powered Speakers[/url][/td][td]$4.99[/td][td]1[/td][td]$4.99[/td][/tr][tr][td]Subtotal[/td][td][/td][td][/td][td]$224.96[/td][/tr][/table]
Total: $319.86
[i]Good lord, and I thought I hated SQL's tables...[/i] This is still sans wood and printed art.
I also have a control panel mockup up.
[t]http://i.imgur.com/wyI2S.png[/t]
[i]Comes to make me realize my mediocrity with color theory and Illustrator.[/i]
The font used is [URL="http://www.fontsquirrel.com/fonts/ubuntu"]Ubuntu Condensed[/URL]. Recommend the font family.
As for a front end, I plan on [url=http://malafe.net/]MaLa[/url] thanks to its support for vertical orientation over HyperSpin. The playlist is the [url=http://www.ubiktune.org/releases/ubi020-various-artists-soundshock-fm-funk-maddness]Soundshock FM Funk Madness[/url] album. It's Creative Commons license allows its use for a nonprofit device with attribution.
Yes, I'm planning it out in Sketchup before going anywhere near wood. Since there aren't any heavy parts like CRT monitors, I reckon it's fine to use MDF wood, as it's easier to paint unlike plywood, which is stronger.
[t]http://i.imgur.com/CSkod.png[/t]
[i]I'd like to keep this inside 22" x 30" (55.88cm x 76.2cm for you metric folks) total.[/i]
The control panel may include a SHIFT button that is pressed along with other buttons to perform administrative commands, such as exiting a game, opening the settings menu, and that stuff. This may reduce the amount of buttons used from four small admin pushbuttons to one shift pushbutton.
Future going-ons, pictures, and progress will be posted in this thread. Upon completion, I shall also prepare a game specifically for it. Maybe Udducted would be resurrected. I also keep track of a [url=http://forum.arcadecontrols.com/index.php/topic,120968.0.html]similar thread[/url] where I ask old people for guidance.
Cross-post from WAYT:
Well. My new budget for parts has saved me some madd buxx, yo. The old one totaled for $94.90. Switching from a dedicated button array to a SHIFT button for administrative controls, that took away $5.45, dropping admin buttons to a measly 75¢ from $6.20. The SHIFT buttons go as follows:
[table][tr][td]SHIFT[/td][td][b]+ A[/b][/td][td]Pause[/td][/tr]
[tr][td][/td][td][b]+ B[/b][/td][td]Exit Game[/td][/tr]
[tr][td][/td][td][b]+ ¢[/b][/td][td]Settings[/td][/tr]
[tr][td][/td][td][b]+ ⌘[/b][/td][td](Soft) Reset Game[/td][/tr][/table]
¢ = Insert Coin pushbutton
⌘ = Start pushbutton
Major and commonly-used commands have been placed in priority to the main gameplay buttons. Actually, I wonder if another small pushbutton could also be used for snapshots if I do a high score for a competition. I have an old PCI wireless card, so I can put >2K12 on the homenet network and place files in there. No more hassles of constantly removing parts to get to a USB port!
Going from two Seimitsu LS-32s to two [url=http://www.paradisearcadeshop.com/en/imported-joysticks/79-classic-arcade-stick-zippyy-short.html]generic brand[/url] saves on $18.90 thus making total on joysticks $17.00 now. Not including balltops, which I also picked a cheaper one to plain white instead of bone ball white.
As for an encoder, I may still have to get two [url=http://forum.arcadecontrols.com/index.php?topic=114744.0]Zero Delay encoders[/url]. Discussion shows that it works in a way that the PoV hat and the main axes cannot work simultaneously. Not going to do the extra work to make it onto one.
Anyway, my current parts budget runs at $55.75. That's almost forty bucks less than previously anticipated. Have some more Sketchup progress.
(For some reason, 11"x4" images do not keep a similar aspect ratio in Sketchup.)
[IMG]http://i.imgur.com/GHcet.gif[/img]
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