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The Retroforce Game Museum: Painted and Playable!
welkstar | 12:49 PM on 09.09.2008 23 comments




I got a lot of work done on The Retroforce over the long Labor Day weekend. But unfortunately, things have come to a temporary halt as I spent all last week moving. The cab has survived the move with only a minor scratch, but it will eventually be covered by the side art so I’m not worrying about it. Anyway, on to the pictures!

Used some spray lacquer to seal the exposed sanded MDF.


My “Destructoid-green” t-molding arrived just in time!


Retroforce, meet Retro-Prime!





This is towards the end of a two-day long cycle of paint-sand-paint-sand-paint-sand…rinse and repeat. It was a lot of work, but it looks fantastic! All glossy-like :)






So after everything was all dry, I started to attach the t-molding. Since I didn’t have a rubber mallet, and since the stores were closed, I had to improvise. A little Yankee ingenuity later, and you have a rubber mallet replacement! (aka: a hammer wrapped in a towel)



Sorry for the crappy photo... I cut a notch in the t-molding to go around the corners.


Sexy!


Installing components, beginning to wire it up!




Ground wire is daisy-chained.



In the middle of wiring/packing, what a mess!


Here she is all rigged up and in a playable state at the old apartment, sorry for the crappy cell phone pics, my camera had already been packed away. I’ll take some photos of it in action in the new house when I get home tonight.




Hopefully I’ll get settled in the new place soon and I can continue work on The Retroforce. Here’s my remaining checklist.
-finalize/order artwork
-make a screen bezel
-buy plexi glass for the screen/bezel area
-cut plexi glass for the control panel
-rig up marquee light
-tidy up my game lists/install other systems

So close!!!



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CypherVR's Destructoid Blog
DAMN!
Guagloves's Destructoid Blog
looks awesome. can't wait to see it when its all done.
Majora's Destructoid Blog
Woah :|
Colette Bennett's Destructoid Blog
Dear God. It looks SO GOOD!!!
pendelton21's Destructoid Blog
I came.
Stella Wong's Destructoid Blog
Flippin' AWESOME :D
The Bez's Destructoid Blog
If you don't mind me asking what did this run or what will it be when all said and done?
commish's Destructoid Blog
Super Duper Sweet
Char Aznable's Destructoid Blog
Excuse me while I continue to jizz at the sight of this project. This should easily be front-paged when it's completed.

Aside from P1 and P2, what are the other buttons for on the front of the cabinet?

Again, *jizz*
welkstar's Destructoid Blog
@The Bez
I'm trying not to pay attention right now. I'm doing everything in little increments. I am saving all my receipts, so when I'm done I'll let you know. I don't want the sticker shock right now though. heh.
NihonTiger90's Destructoid Blog
That's sexy.

As in, I want to have sex with that machine.
welkstar's Destructoid Blog
@Char Aznable-The 2 black buttons in the middle are left and right click for the trackball (you can use it in Windows). The white button exits the current game and returns to the menu. The red buttons are coin buttons to add credits. Eventually I want to rig up a coin door, but they're kinda expensive.

To turn it on, you just plug it in at the back. When it boots, the arcade front end loads automatically. During a game, if you exit back to the arcade menu, and then hold the white Exit button + P2, it will shutdown the computer.
Dyson's Destructoid Blog
Sexy! Btw, the shirts are in motion.
welkstar's Destructoid Blog
@Dyson-

:D :D :D
king3vbo's Destructoid Blog
1) I'm fapping hard right now
2) Is it sad that first I noticed and thought about was "Oh, thats a Dell Optiplex GX series, that should run most MAME stuff pretty well"
3) Moar fapping
Teta's Destructoid Blog
AWesome!
naia-the-gamer's Destructoid Blog
this is coming along so well! I'm fapping in my living room.
Puppy Licks's Destructoid Blog
Seriously man you're my fucking hero :)
TrailerParkJesus's Destructoid Blog
wowzers!
nintendoll's Destructoid Blog
can't wait to see the whole thing finished, looks badass. :)
Spitfire's Destructoid Blog
truly impressive. Great work welkstar.
naia-the-gamer's Destructoid Blog
@Reaprar:

Because people ignore good c-blogs. It's unfortunate.


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