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  1. Posted · Edited by johnparker007

    32 minutes ago, vectra666 said:

    All cash on these barcrests plays a better game it’s what I remember from chip shop days in 90’s Nickelodeon is great on £2.40/£3 cash they another I must update sometIme I’ll have to ask @johnparker007 to upscale on of those layouts??

    I've just checked, @Tommy c did a version around the same time that had a (different?) higher resolution base image - note the buttons are legible on the TommyC (left) image but not the Vectra (right) image.  I think if possible you'd get a better result with an upscaled version of Tommy's image, since it has more detail?


    image.thumb.png.16099088571d0ef72cb5a00eb9326acf.png

    What do ya reckon? :) 

  4. Sunset Boulevard BWB 2p/£2.40

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    Posted · Edited by johnparker007

    Nice :) 

    I did actually use to play the 2p Sunset Boulevard back in the 90s, it was in the front area of an arcade known locally as 'Big Smithies' (as Mr Smith also owned another, smaller arcade on the next corner of the same block - that one was known as 'Little Smithies').

    If you have more of these MPU3/4 ROMs with chr problems, feel free to sling them my way, and I can have at least have a try, though I can't always do them with what I did on this one (I couldn't do Vectra's one the other week), so no guarantees of success ;) 

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  5. BWB ANDY CAPP £6 DX

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    Looks really good, nice work! :)  I've added to the machine requests sheet, I'm tied up for quite a while working on MFME Extractor improvements/MAME Xml/config generation/other batch generation system, so no new machines for a while as I focus on that.  But some of these tasks are of benefit to Arcade Sim in various ways, it's all worth doing :)  

    List is here:
    https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1VtMkjI0R3fnQE3ueasZNUrVk2DltPRjZFSPTPgYVQoA/edit?usp=sharing

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  6. Lite a Nudge Deluxe

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    Posted · Edited by johnparker007

    Hiya :)  

    'Side profile' images are hard to come by, us you have or can get side profile images of some of these older cabinets that will be useful for building a 3d model of them, to ultimately end up in the arcade.  I put together this rough image to show how best to take a side profile photo, with what a good one looks like :)
    image.thumb.png.065d5bdbbd1e21206be5f9c4f43ddb46.png

    We then can 'trace' that 'flat' side image in the 3d software, provides a great starting point for building the cab to correct proprortions.

    I do have this photo lurking around, not ideal, but probably a good starting point if we can't get a flat profile:

    MPU2 - several cab side profiles.jpg

    Also overall length/width/height dimensions are useful, but not critical as these can be derived now from photos of these cabs near other cabs with known dimensions.

    Thanks for any side profiles etc you can hunt out :) 

  7. Lite a Nudge Deluxe

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    Amazing layout, great work on the redraw :) 

    @GREDDIEAt some point we will get cabinets made for these old 'SRU' (?) type machines, and I will get some time, and they'll be able to go into Arcade Simulator :) 

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  8. £8 TOP TENNER DX

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    Thanks for making it nice and high res!  Been a bit busy with real life stuff of late, and had practically no time for Arcade Sim coding - I do have that cabinet made though, and the layout looks like it should convert with current process, might see about getting this in as a one off later ;)

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  10. Red Alert [DUTCH] SC4

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    10 hours ago, Damici said:

    Im not sure if the german cabinet is taller or not, but for the rest its the same cabinet yes.

    Thank you about your compliment about the redraws.

    Thanks for the letting me know :)  I do various scaling adjustment to the models as part of process to get them converted to Arcade Sim, so when I get to some of your Dutch layouts in this cabinet base model (may be quite a while yet, but all planned), hopefully will be approximately correct dimensions :) 

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    Any arcade cab is a good arcade cab!  But the Goliath was a bit special :)  I remember being a little entranced by the trippy side art pattern as a kid - heck I was like 7-8 when I started frequenting the arcades, it was all just complete magic to me going down there! :D 

    If only room and £ wasn't an issue, then it'd be about getting a stand up Outrun, and wiring your steering wheel and pedals into that... ;) 

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  14. Posted

    1 hour ago, Multi Retro Man said:

    My cabinet is a Centi one. It's kind of smaller than the Goliath and I really wanted the Goliath one but the person I got it off didn't want to get rid of it, so I got this one instead. When I first got it, it had a black joystick that was different to the red one so I managed to get a red one from someone on YouTube and luckily he managed to have some, so I bought the odd one or two off him. :)

    I don't like the side art or the front art underneath either of the Centi but luckily mine doesn't have either.

    I designed the Marquee at the top but I'm looking at using a second monitor for a changing Marquee for whatever the game is being played.

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    The Goliath was a popular cab around Cleethorpes arcades where I grew up.  It was weird, Konami I think didn't have a way to distribute (or manufacturer?) cabs to the UK at the time Salamander launched (1986) so it was a weird affair where the Goliath was the official Salamander cabinet:

    salamand.png

    Thanks for posting the flyers, have saved for the handy measurements :)  Marquee should look sweet if it's a decent fit!

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