uptown47

Hi all, I've had my home built cab for a couple of years now. It doesn't get hammered but I've noticed my 10p hopper jams more often so wondered what (if any) maintenance is required on these? I thought about just a blast of silicon oil or something but thought I'd best check first? Anyone any ideas? Cheers

What a brilliant job !!! Definitely looks tight in that control panel so I bet that was fun squeezing everything in!! You've made a cracking job of it all though and I completely agree with you about the sound being really important (second only to the smell of an old arcade). Great work

Only had a really quick look at it. Couldn't find the DX editor that you mentioned but found another option in the Design menu 2nd from bottom that gave me 4 screens including a mono screen on the right. Looked like I could play around with those. But I had to leave it as were on our way to the airport to go on my holiday. Just sat waiting for the wife at the moment so posting back. Will try again when I'm back on the 24th. Thanks for all yours and Tommy's help so far.

That's great Vectra. Thanks for your help with that. I can see how a bit of tweaking can get that sorted. Really appreciate you passing that on (also really appreciate all your hard work on here - most of my fave machines are your hard work so a big Thank You from me!) Cheers

I'm currently refreshing some of the machines on my cabinet and doing some general jiggery-pokery with a frontend etc. I've noticed a few machines are darker than I would like. However, if I go into Design mode and just raise the brightness of the background then I noticed that a lot of the other assets aren't transparent - they are just set into a background that matches the dark background I'm trying to fix. Is there a quicker way to raise the brightness of the background? Or is the only way to download all the bmps of all the assets and then change their background colour to the new shade in photoshop and then reload back to the machine? Would love some expert advice on the best way to proceed here? These screenshots illustrate what I'm talking about.... Note: I've increased the brightness more than I would actually like to exaggerate the transparency problem to make it easier to see the issue.

Looking good mate! Nice one

Coming together nicely mate! Great work

Calm down calm down...

Looking superb Road Hog. Interested to see how it's all going to fit together. Really like the slim look of it. Great work mate!!

Haha! Yep, didn't notice that but I bet you're right

Awesome!! Great work mate PS.. great to see a cheeky game of Caveman Capers going on there too

I wouldn't hold your breath mate I'm just coming to the end of building an extension on the house and we're skint. Plus I'm not sure that the wife would go for another cab build. I've done 3 now and she hates the mess that it causes. I've threatened to build a VPX pinball table next but I'll probably end up with a small wall-mounted jukebox as the next project. Will be next year now though as she wants a partition wall building in the living room to keep the heat in for when our 'fixed deal' runs out for energy in October. Trying to tighten our belts.

The ultimate cab!! Well done old pal. You've done sterling work. I can only imagine the contorted shapes you must have pulled wiring that thing up. Amazing work! Cab building has just evolved to the next level. Really impressed

Thought it would be worth re-posting the videos I made many moons ago on my own cabinet build. It just means we keep everything together and hopefully it will help someone take the leap to making their own cabinet. Here's one I made showing the build with some explanations on what the components are... And here's one talking about the software and demo-ing the machine.... Apologies for the quality of these efforts... I'm not in any danger of winning an Oscar... you have been warned

I've got a 10p hopper but (so far) not had any issues (fingers crossed / touch wood etc)