March 8, 2009

After some consideration, I decided to turn the Super Pac-Man I purchased (see Super Pac-Man for before images) into a multi-game, 60-in-1 cabinet.  The Super Pac-Man board was working fine, but the monitor ended up having more issues than I cared to deal with.  I might get back to the monitor at some point, but for now I pushed the board, monitor and power supply to the side and got to work.  Warning, this isn’t a very descriptive post.  But check out the images below of the finished machine.

There really wasn’t too much to do.  I patched a few spots, touched up the paint (I took a paint chip to Lowes to get color matched), cleaned out the inside and I was pretty much ready to bring the machine to life.

I ordered a 19″ lcd monitor and an ATX powersupply from Tiger Direct.  I picked up a 13″ cabinet light and a powerstrip from teh Walmarts, ordered the 60-in-1 and black t-molding from TwistedQuarter.com, and ordered a jamma wire harness from JammaBoards.com (I highly recommend them btw).

The harness was a little overwhelming, but once I figured out they group the wires by ground, player 1, player 2, coins, etc, I breezed through the hookup.

I mounted a piece of a shelf I had picked up to the inside with corner brackets.  I had already drilled out the holes for the lcd monitor (it has VESA screw holes on the back, much like a TV), so all I had to do was patiently screw the monitor to the board.  BTW, if you are ever looking for screws to mount a TV, they are typically size M4 (0.7mm pitch), about 10mm long.  But the length really depends on what you’re mounting it to.

I mounted the 60-in-1 board to the inside by simply screwing it in.  Nothing fancy.  I took a couple of corner brackets and mounted the ATX power supply to the floor of the cabinet.  For power, I mounted a power strip to the inside to plug in the monitor, light and ATX ps.  I connected a switch to the power-on of the ATX power supply so the board could be turned on anf off.  But this leads to a little problem that I’ve yet to solve and don’t know if I will.  The monitor and light will always be on since I did not wire the switch to the power strip.  So to remedy that, I just plug the power strip into yet another power strip and use it that way.  I might opt to wire the switch directly to the power strip, but I’ll get to that another time if I feel like it.

So, that was pretty much it.  Once I plugged everything in and powered it on, I spent a few hours “testing” to make sure most of the games worked fine.

I currently have the machine listed on ebay for the second time.  I’m hoping to use the proceeds from this to fund my other projects.  And maybe to make a bulk purchase if things work out (more on that later).  If it doesn’t sell this time, I might just move it to my game room and keep it for awhile.

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