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The Retroforce Game Museum: Painted and Playable!
welkstar | 12:49 PM on 09.09.2008 25 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 Avatar - Comment posted on 09/09/2008 13:00
CypherVR
DAMN!
Guagloves's Avatar - Comment posted on 09/09/2008 13:04
Guagloves
looks awesome. can't wait to see it when its all done.
Majora's Avatar - Comment posted on 09/09/2008 13:05
Majora
Woah :|
Colette Bennett's Avatar - Comment posted on 09/09/2008 13:09
Colette Bennett
Dear God. It looks SO GOOD!!!
pendelton21's Avatar - Comment posted on 09/09/2008 13:12
pendelton21
I came.
Stella Wong's Avatar - Comment posted on 09/09/2008 13:14
Stella Wong
Flippin' AWESOME :D
The Bez's Avatar - Comment posted on 09/09/2008 13:17
The Bez
If you don't mind me asking what did this run or what will it be when all said and done?
commish's Avatar - Comment posted on 09/09/2008 13:28
commish
Super Duper Sweet
Char Aznable's Avatar - Comment posted on 09/09/2008 13:32
Char Aznable
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 Avatar - Comment posted on 09/09/2008 13:32
welkstar
@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.
Brian Szabelski's Avatar - Comment posted on 09/09/2008 13:36
Brian Szabelski
That's sexy.

As in, I want to have sex with that machine.
welkstar's Avatar - Comment posted on 09/09/2008 13:47
welkstar
@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 Avatar - Comment posted on 09/09/2008 14:28
Dyson
Sexy! Btw, the shirts are in motion.
welkstar's Avatar - Comment posted on 09/09/2008 14:41
welkstar
@Dyson-

:D :D :D
king3vbo's Avatar - Comment posted on 09/09/2008 15:32
king3vbo
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 Avatar - Comment posted on 09/09/2008 15:35
Teta
AWesome!
naia-the-gamer's Avatar - Comment posted on 09/09/2008 17:26
naia-the-gamer
this is coming along so well! I'm fapping in my living room.
Puppy Licks's Avatar - Comment posted on 09/09/2008 19:54
Puppy Licks
Seriously man you're my fucking hero :)
TrailerParkJesus's Avatar - Comment posted on 09/09/2008 21:00
TrailerParkJesus
wowzers!
nintendoll's Avatar - Comment posted on 09/10/2008 02:49
nintendoll
can't wait to see the whole thing finished, looks badass. :)
Spitfire's Avatar - Comment posted on 09/14/2008 19:06
Spitfire
truly impressive. Great work welkstar.
naia-the-gamer's Avatar - Comment posted on 09/14/2008 20:24
naia-the-gamer
@Reaprar:

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