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All the rest / New Dutchie
« on: May 04, 2010, 01:45:59 AM »
Hi there

Ckong was nice enough to show me this place to introduce myself...so here i go

Im Floris, born and raised in Utrecht, The Netherlands. Im 21 years old (I know im young for these forums :wink: ) and i love vintage gaming...why? Well when i was just a little Floris my parents thought i would be nice to buy a gaming console for me and my brother. So in 1993 my parents bought the NES from our neighbor + 24 NES games. And thats why i love vintage gaming, because i learned playing gaming on it!! All the time behinde all those old NES games ;D

After that me and my begged for a SNES and in the end we got one. So to sum it up, i was brought up with almost the real deal...So now im here to replicate one a Nintendo Cabinet and play all my favorites on it!

And for a job, im a props maker for student movies and all sorts of things. But im am a total noob at making Cabinets, but i have been looking to build on over these last 4 years so i have a tiny clue how to make one.  But most of this is new to me, but so far the people are very nice and extremely helpful :)

You can see my progress here: https://www.dragonslairfans.com/smfor/index.php?topic=1576.0 

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Arcade Lifestyle / I know that monkey, its Donkey! [DK Scratch build]
« on: May 03, 2010, 02:56:05 AM »
After almost 4 years of doubting, I finally decided to make a scratch build replica of the Donkey Kong Cabinet. The real "kick"from behind was after i had seen King of Kong...men I love that movie! Im still not sure if I want a complete replica or a adjusted one for two players+ a couple of extra buttons.

Since i have been looking to start this project more then 4 years ago i knew a couple thing ahead of time.
- Nintendo coin doors aren't that easy to find
- Planning is everything
- Color Matching is hard.

I started off with buying a coin door off the KLOV forums. It was a bit pricey but i got two working coint mech's with it. Yesterday i started with buying a sheets of MDF (244x122x15) and tracing the plans of jakobud (yes i know that they aren't that accurate, but i haven't got anything better to work with..)

Im still a total noob on making cabinets, mame or restoring parts of old cabinets to there original state. But i figured, if i never try it i would never learn. Plus there are A LOT of dutch people here, so that makes this a fun project to do and maybe make some new friends along the way!

Picture time!
The coint door from the Klov forum


Cleaning up

Drawing out the first side of the cabinet


first side of the cabinet done!


and thats all for now!

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