I believe Rich from www.thisoldgame.com made a real backglass for the guy who made the Goonies retheme. I thought about doing it for my Ash vs Evil Dead and Lost in Space rethemes but ending up going the translite route instead and have been happy with the results.

Thanks. If you have any questions on your project that I might be able to help with let me know. I love reading all the homebrew project threads.

If a stern metal apron with the windows in it fits, you could use one of those. Then you could lasercut pieces of acrylic sized to fit in the triangluar areas with logos/text/etc. That would probably be a lot cheaper than laser cutting the apron itself. That would also make it easier to try different designs and just swap em in and out til you find sometime you like.

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You could also fit a mini LCD in the apron window if you wanted some video or animated stuff instead of just backlit text.

If you want to just play assorted clips you can use one of the 4d smart displays. All the video processing stuff is built into the display so once you create your slideshow, animation, videos or whatever you put it on an SD card and the display will play automatically loop through them whenever +5v volts is applied.

https://www.4dsystems.com.au/products

For Lost in Space they always did a cliffhanger at the end of each episode, copied the following year by Batman. So for the beginning of each new episode they would do a recap to show what happened and start it off with "Last Week As You Recall....". So I thought it would be cool to have the video clips for each episode play in a little LCD on the apron. This a 2.4" that I put in apron and made a plastic bezel to give it a cleaner look.
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Looking great! How will the art be done, direct paint on wood then clear or a custom painted overlay?

Not sure if your game will have speech or not but maybe you can borrow some of their voice assets for your game. Getting Loomis to say "jackpot" or "player 1 is up" isnt something you can pull from the movies directly.

That would look really nice in the homebrew room at pintastic in 10 days.

Looks great! Can't wait to play it York.

Does WAV trigger use a folder system to store sound clips? For example, when trigger #1 is hit it points to folder which has multiple sound clips in it and then randomly picks one of them to play? It it can do that then you'd have lots of variety with your sound mix.

So if you wanted a scream sound effect with a particular switch hit you could put 30 different screams in the folder assigned to that switch so it wouldn't be the same scream every time it's hit.

Michael Myers approves Michael Myers coming to York!

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Well if it's ready by April 11'th you can bring it to the homebrew room at the Pintastic show. Our show now has a dedicated room showcasing homebrew games. It was a big hit at this years shown and should have more games at next year's show in April.