Tuesday, August 3, 2010

New coin door opening and small updates

Oke, here we are.
- New cut made for the Nintendo coin door and repainted the area.
- MAME setup and controls are working great.
- Cleaned coin mechs but need some more work.
- Coin door straightend and resprayed, but needs more work.

Talking about MAME, I have been thinking about abandoning the computer setup with MAME and go for an original Donkey Kong board instead. Even though I have MAME set up real nice and clean now and every pixel is where it should be, the idea of putting a real board in there with a rich history makes me more happy everytime I think about it :) So i need to buy me a DK board, a Nintendo>JAMMA adapter (Mikesarcade's adapter houses a color inverter and audio amp which I will both need) and a cheap little supergun or build something myself for connecting it to the scart TV and controls. This thing is coming together nicely!




Really amazed by how good the "first" coat of blue looks! Tomorrow another and probably final layer.




Sanded and cleaned. Just before I put the first coat of blue on.
To get it perfectly smooth, two coats of primer and three layers of bondo were applied in total.



Fit's nicely!

New coin door cut-out drawn on the cabinet. Ready for the jigsaw! As you can see here, just a little more bondo is needed to make it perfect.


New coat of primer and some more sanding.


Sanded and primed.



Piece glued in and applied first layer of bondo.


Cut out a piece of MDF big enough to fit in the old coin door hole. New original DK coin door is wider, but shorter. So had to redo the cut-out.


Straightend and resprayed coin door in front of the cabinet before cutting the new door opening.
Door is going to be redone. Too many bumps and dents for my liking. A lot of bondoing and sanding the coming days :)


Face plates cleaned up really well! Although as expected, they're scratched up pretty bad. What to do now... My options:
- Sand and respray with aluminium-look spraypaint,
- Sand and anodize the aluminium back to original look.
- Let it be like this. Scratched up, but it shows it's history :)


Coin mech face plates. Tried paint remover on them because I would like to see how the faceplates looked like underneath the thick ugly paint. If I'd sanded it right away I would have a lot of scratches from sanding on them before even deciding wether to paint them or just clean them.


Coin mech faceplate before cleaning. Missing the coin reject thing, that's a pitty :( Luckily Mikesarcade has them.


Philips scart TV mounted on a square piece of MDF, exactly the width of the cabinet. So it is easily rotatable!


Pixel perfect Donkey Kong image, thanks to a scart TV, Ultimarc's Arcade VGA and MAME. Hooked up with home-made VGA>scart cable. Image looks exactly the same as an original DK board would look like on an arcade monitor.


Proud owner of an original DK joystick :) Been in the hands of so many gamers before me. Perhaps some good or well known players. Disassembled completely, cleaned very well with q-tips and WD40. Applied new grease. Ready for another 25 years of gaming! :)


Underside of control panel. Everything hooked up and working now. Only need swapping of the Sanwa JLF joystick with an original Nintendo joystick.


11 comments:

strugglingwriter said...

Hey, great job with this. I was wondering how you got the blue color? It looks pretty close to the original.

Paul

Henry said...

Me too...I have bought some spray gloss from B&Q but its not quite right

Anonymous said...

I always thought it would be cool to build a "MAME" cab off of this style that runs all the old Nintendo arcade games.

trashman0 said...

Looks top notch! Love Donkey Kong, I really want to make one - but I was wondering the same - where I can get the colour match from??

there's quite a few people that have made them, this guy has a shopping list of all the bits used - looks a pretty good cab too!

http://homecomputermuseum.co.uk/?ct=dkproject

angela said...

Kenaripoker | Mari dapatkan bonus yang meriah hanya dengan deposit minimal 15.000 untuk new member dan dapatkan bonusnya 20.000

Dan teruslah bermain hingga kamu bisa mendapat banyak bonus lainnya dari kami yang memberikan kenyamanan dan memuaskan untuk anda dengan kejutan yang akan kami berikan melalui bonus bonus yang akan datang!!
Banyak terbukti bergabung bersama kami banyak untung dari permainan.

Ayo tunggu apa lagi? Raihlah kemenangan dan hoki mu disini ���������� #KENARIPOKER. COM

marc monserrat said...

Appreciative to you for sharing such a Very informative post! by then in a general sense Visit Here vinilos BARTOP

CSML India said...

Nice Post…

I’m having very interesting information regarding Arcade Games Machine Providers in India, Bowling Alley Price in India and Bowling Equipment in India

CSML India said...

Nice Post....


I'm having very interesting information regarding Arcade game machines in India, Bowling Alley in India, Bowling Equipment in India and Tenpin Bowling in India

Sylvester Balchunas said...

Thanks for sharing interesting information. I am also sharing blogs that are helping you.

Oreo TV App
How to change the password of SBCGlobal email
How long does Facebook can block you
Get your offline printer back to online status

Sylvester Balchunas said...

I have visited your blog daily. I like to read this kind of stuff and information. Thanks for sharing such a great blog.

att.net login
KissCartoon websites
Verizon.net email login
ATT.net login
The Pirate Bay

Emails Crunch said...

GoDaddy email is not working
GoDaddy emails not sending
GoDaddy email problems
GoDaddy email problems with outlook
Godaddy email down
Xfinity email
Logged into your Xfinity email account