PaulEMoz Posted May 29, 2004 Share Posted May 29, 2004 Or close to it: Paper Arcade Print out, cut out and make your own little arcade cabinets for your desktop! If you've got even the smallest aamount of game geek in you, you should love this. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
eric_ruck Posted May 29, 2004 Share Posted May 29, 2004 Oh man, a new use for the Minolta color laser at one of my clients. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AtariDude Posted May 29, 2004 Share Posted May 29, 2004 That is a very neat idea. I don't have a color printer so I can't take advantage of it but I am sure someone out there will. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
spongebue Posted May 30, 2004 Share Posted May 30, 2004 I should make a few to put on my desk... I don't think I'll be putting any Barbies with it though Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Phosphor Dot Fossils Posted May 30, 2004 Share Posted May 30, 2004 Little geek confession: I used to do stuff like this when I was a wee tot, actually. Drew 'em out and assembled them myself. Made sure they were scaled so the Star Wars figures could play 'em. Ah, childhood! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
vb_master Posted May 30, 2004 Share Posted May 30, 2004 Want to build a life size paper IBM Laptop? Linkage! It's quite hard to find, just click around the site a bit, you will figure out how. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Albert Posted May 30, 2004 Share Posted May 30, 2004 Time to break out the thick paper and run some sheets through the color laser. ..Al Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sku_u Posted May 30, 2004 Share Posted May 30, 2004 I just finished the pacman cabinet. I used matte paper and ran it through my photo printer. It came out great. I plan on assembling the rest of them and displaying them in my eventual gameroom. Thanks for that link! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
raindog Posted May 30, 2004 Share Posted May 30, 2004 I don't know how, but somehow, eventually, I'll get a 2" TFT into one of these things Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RIVER Posted May 31, 2004 Share Posted May 31, 2004 Hey guys, what is A4 paper?? I have a fairly new lexmark z32 color printer and when I click print everything goes like normal until it starts to print then it prints like 1/4 of the arcade on one page and doesnt do anything else, it would take like 4 or six pages to print the whole thing its that big, is it supposed to print the whole thing on 1 regular sheet of paper?? I looked at all the settings and everything and cant figure out what is going on??? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
raindog Posted May 31, 2004 Share Posted May 31, 2004 A4 is the standard "letter size" paper everywhere else in the world except the US (and maybe Canada, I don't actually know.) Printing one of these images to letter size paper pretty much means telling whatever program you're printing the image with to scale the graphic to fit the page, and that varies quite a lot from program to program. Me, I'll probably just insert the graphic in Openoffice Draw so I'll be able to see exactly how much of the page it'll fill. It's pretty easy to do the same sort of thing in Visio, and if you have a copy of Adobe InDesign it'll really be smooth. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jedijeff Posted May 31, 2004 Share Posted May 31, 2004 That's pretty cool! I hope he makes some more. Star Wars would be at the top of my list And no Asteroids? What's up with that? Jeff Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jedijeff Posted May 31, 2004 Share Posted May 31, 2004 That's pretty cool! I hope he makes some more. Star Wars would be at the top of my list And no Asteroids? What's up with that? Jeff Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JB Posted May 31, 2004 Share Posted May 31, 2004 WHOOHOO! I HAVE A TEMPEST CAB NOW! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PaulEMoz Posted May 31, 2004 Author Share Posted May 31, 2004 That's pretty cool! I hope he makes some more. Star Wars would be at the top of my list And no Asteroids? What's up with that? Jeff Don't worry, more are on the way. Probably including the two you mentioned. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shannon Posted May 31, 2004 Share Posted May 31, 2004 Isn't A4 the same size as legal paper? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shannon Posted May 31, 2004 Share Posted May 31, 2004 OK so what kinda paper would you peeps recommend (thickness wise) for us US patrons? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Susuwatari Posted May 31, 2004 Share Posted May 31, 2004 Here's an useful link for paper sizes: http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~mgk25/iso-paper.html To convert from mm to inch, divide by 25.4 so 210x297 (A4 size) would be close to 8.26 by 11.7 or slightly narrower but longer than US letter size. I'm off to try and build a few cabs. Fortunately a printer I'm getting cheap can handle up to A2 or nearly twice the Ledger size paper. Mayve I could build a bigger paper cab and wire the control and display to the PC MAME. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jasoco Posted May 31, 2004 Share Posted May 31, 2004 I used to have an imagination as a child.. I miss it. Anyway, I would build very detailed houses out of cardboard... Man.. I miss my imagination. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PaulEMoz Posted May 31, 2004 Author Share Posted May 31, 2004 OK so what kinda paper would you peeps recommend (thickness wise) for us US patrons? Ordinary printer paper is the easiest to use. The quality won't be quite as good, but it's easier to fold, and generally comes in A4 size. I managed a decent looking Defender with normal printer paper. I don't know what would be better for sturdier versions though. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sku_u Posted May 31, 2004 Share Posted May 31, 2004 Ordinary printer paper is the easiest to use. The quality won't be quite as good, but it's easier to fold, and generally comes in A4 size. I managed a decent looking Defender with normal printer paper. I don't know what would be better for sturdier versions though. Matte paper if you have a photo printer, card stock if you do not. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Albert Posted May 31, 2004 Share Posted May 31, 2004 I don't know how, but somehow, eventually, I'll get a 2" TFT into one of these things LOL, running MAME no less. ..Al Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MegaManFan Posted May 31, 2004 Share Posted May 31, 2004 If these paper creations were in GBA SP sizes, I'd just run a flashcart on the thing with whatever game I chose in the cabinet. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bruce Tomlin Posted May 31, 2004 Share Posted May 31, 2004 One word: sweet! I'm about to doze off for the night right now, but in the morning I'm going to try to make some. I was already going to play around with printing up stuff anyhow. Maybe a set for home, and a set for the cubicle at work. The only tough part is that my Color Laserjet 5 isn't designed to take card stock, so after a few prints it feed-jams. I'm sure we all have our preferences, and I think that was an excellent choice of games, but I think Joust deserves to be in there too -- a great game with great cabinet art. Those pictures with the dolls are amazing. They really do look like the real thing if you don't look too close. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bruce Tomlin Posted May 31, 2004 Share Posted May 31, 2004 I don't know how, but somehow, eventually, I'll get a 2" TFT into one of these things LOL, running MAME no less. ..Al Is there a GBA version of MAME yet? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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