Gottlieb Falstaff – Paintjob
by gipsy on Mar.28, 2014, under Gottlieb Falstaff, Pinball, Private
well this year I seem to have the drive to finish (or at least continue with) some of my projects, so here you’ll find a little update for my Gottlieb Falstaff Pinball.
This was all a lot of trial and error for me, as I’m not really versed in painting, especially with my new Airbrush set …
But I think the result isn’t too shabby and I believe it has a certain kind of charm to it 🙂
And also it’s not toooo far from the original: Falstaff case on IPDB
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Gigantor – Progress
by gipsy on Mar.28, 2014, under Arcade, Gigantor, MAME, Private
OK … no posts since over 3 years … this is a new record 🙂
But even if nobody will ever read it, I want to document some of my progress at least for myself.
So this is it, I took the time to (almost) finish my Gigantor Project:
Electrics and electronics are completely finished, but the case is still missing the top with the marquee, let’s see when I find time to do this 🙂
At the moment it’s possible to use a RasPi for MAME or original PCBs … I’m planning to add a C64 and a PlayStation to it.
Also I’m not really happy with the control panel. It’s made from plexiglas and got some cracks from drilling and I put the controls too near the edge …
Some more photos:
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Pachinko
by gipsy on Sep.12, 2010, under Nishijin, Pachinko
Well, almost exactly one year since my last post …
Simply neiter had time to work on my projects nor really felt like it. But now the fever is back 🙂
But of course I started something new instead of finishing one of my other machines:
Last week I “accidently” got a Nichijin Pachinko machine in almost perfect working order, only missing the payout ball tray and the card bypass dongle.
Luckily I had all the tools at home to finish these parts, the ball tray is cut out of an old emergency exit light.
Now it’s nicely mounted on a wall in my living room.
Next will be to add a ball lifter to it for more playing fun, I’m thinking about building one myself either with a flipper coil or with an old jigsaw I have lying around … we’ll see how it turns out (if ever 🙂 )
Sorry for the crappy images, but the HTC Hero is a nice tool for almost everything other than using it as a camera ;(
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Gigantor Wiring -> SCART
by gipsy on Sep.10, 2009, under Arcade, Gigantor
Since starting the Gigantor Project I destroyed 2 of my 2 Hantarex Arcade monitors 🙁
I was searching on ebay and other platforms, but didn’t find any Arcade monitors for sale, so I decided to add a SCART output to my Gigantor wiring to use an old and cheap TV as monitor.
Today I finished all the wiring for the Gigantor, I want to be able to use JAMMA and other PCBs so I decided to go with the Austrian “Novomatic” 50pin D-SUB as my main connector. I believe this should be the most durable type.
The finished wiring consists of one primary female 50pin D-SUB which can be connected to different PCBs via (still to do) converters. From this there are 4 main connecions:
- Video: 15pin male D-SUB connector wired according to the VGA standard
- Audio: Stereo female TRS connector
- Controlers: 38pin female Centronics connector with own pin assignment
- Mains: 9pin Connector to Hantarex US200
On the Video part follows a SCART connector which also needs +5V for switching the TV to RGB mode which is routed via Chinch connectors.
Today was the first test and YEAHHH … everything works perfectly … playing Arcade games on a 42″ Full HD rulez 🙂
Everything is wired in a way to replace any part at any time, for example it’s no problem to replace the SCART connector with an Arcade monitor connector, or completely replace the PCBs with a MAME computer.
At the moment I have no camera, but I will post some pictures at a later time.
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