(Topic ID: 212178)
San Diego, CA
The artwork was a serious pain in the arse.
NOS 3 pieces of side art, scanned, placed back together, cleaned up and color corrected.
Had to sort of estimate where SIMPSONS letters went because the scanned pieces are just blue with no overlap.
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I didn't actually have a Simpsons game to work with, just a cabinet i built using the same specs as a Turtles i previously built. This is the HARD way to do it, i would much rather have the game on hand.
Notice one of the corners got smacked. Happened while moving it. Fixed it up and it will be covered by the single piece of side art.
Looks Nice. My friend and I played this when it first came out, cost about $20 bucks to get to the end...I've always been fond of it, have it downloaded on xbox360.
What is your monitor situation? I'm rebuilding a Gretzky 3D Hockey and the last piece I need is a standard res monitor. I tried getting one of those hdmi boards and tried hooking up to an lcd, but the image was jumpy a little, couldn't get it to work right.
I'm using a 25" CRT i got from a bulk buy. Changing out the caps and the flyback. Hoping it works after that.
Quoted from shacklersrevenge:Looks Nice. My friend and I played this when it first came out, cost about $20 bucks to get to the end...I've always been fond of it, have it downloaded on xbox360.
What is your monitor situation? I'm rebuilding a Gretzky 3D Hockey and the last piece I need is a standard res monitor. I tried getting one of those hdmi boards and tried hooking up to an lcd, but the image was jumpy a little, couldn't get it to work right.
Time for T-molding.
Start at the bottom, a little glue and a couple staples to keep it in place.
Rubber mallet with a cloth taped on it to keep it from damaging the T-molding.
Small cuts on the inside edge to bend it around tight angles.
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Looks like it's going to be better than new already. One continuous sheet of side art vs the multi-piece (often multi-colored) from the factory.
Yeah, they all looked terrible form the factory, the colors never matched.
Quoted from ReplayRyan:Looks like it's going to be better than new already. One continuous sheet of side art vs the multi-piece (often multi-colored) from the factory.
Thanks!
Quoted from DngrWillRobinson:Looks fantastic.
Quoted from ReplayRyan:Looks like it's going to be better than new already. One continuous sheet of side art vs the multi-piece (often multi-colored) from the factory.
They were a fade of color from a greenish tint on bottom to bluer on top. That was on purpose, it's not supposed to be one color of blue 
That being said, good looking machine the OP has here 
Yeah, i know but even the gradients didn't match. All blue was an artistic choice 
Quoted from hailrazer:They were a fade of color from a greenish tint on bottom to bluer on top. That was on purpose, it's not supposed to be one color of blue
That being said, good looking machine the OP has here
Quoted from PACMAN:what do you think? Blue or original black there?
OK so I don't know if this helps or not but long story short I had a Simpsons board in a 2 player jamma cab years ago I bought from an operator around here. They had jumped something to make the board work as a 2 player game, when the original cabinet was destroyed falling down a flight of stairs. The boards were all that survived.
Anyhow I always wanted to find a 4 player Konami cabinet and turn it back in to an original-ish Simpsons. The operator was helping me to find one and the conversation of the art work came up because he said of he finds something it will likely have been painted over or totally ruined. Most of his stuff was at the end of it's life by the time he sold it off.
The best he could do at the time (1998 or so) was show me a Polaroid he had of a test Simpsons he had when it was first about to come out. He said maybe a graphics guy could make me art based on that picture.
That picture had artwork on the side of the control panel. It's driving me crazy because I don't remember what it was but I know it was there.
Well, for my Turtles in Time the art on the control panel seemed to make more sense with the continuation of the spirals.
Quoted from PAPPYBALL:That picture had artwork on the side of the control panel. It's driving me crazy because I don't remember what it was but I know it was there.
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Melbourne
Cool. Hope you can find it.
Quoted from PAPPYBALL:Nice!!!!
It was like their dog or the cooling towers it was something simple like that. Wish I still had that picture.
Helsinki
not that it really matters but the cabs changed around the time of simpsons and had two speakers up top, thats always been the way i tell converted turtles cabs apart from converted simpsons and sunset riders cabs.
Also i like the blue on the panel.
Unknown City
DOH! Yep, i see it now, oh well
Another reason to get the original game first.
Quoted from Dr-Willy:not that it really matters but the cabs changed around the time of simpsons and had two speakers up top, thats always been the way i tell converted turtles cabs apart from converted simpsons and sunset riders cabs.
Also i like the blue on the panel.
Quoted from Dr-Willy:not that it really matters but the cabs changed around the time of simpsons and had two speakers up top, thats always been the way i tell converted turtles cabs apart from converted simpsons and sunset riders cabs
Good catch. Simpsons sounds great in stereo.
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