Pixel Art Themed Bartop Arcade
-
I was looking for something fun for my own building and bumped into this thread. Loved the way you did it so here is my own artwork. I only need the marquee and control panel for now. As it is made for my kids, I added their names on the marquee. I think the rest of the cabinet will be all white.
-
@docunagi Very nice, any plans to share the photoshop files or are you willing to sell them?
-
The artwork is fantastic! I want one badly!
-
@docunagi I LOVE IT! Looks great!
-
@PatrickTee said in Pixel Art Themed Bartop Arcade:
Where did you get the joystick and buttons from? I'm looking for suppliers online and finding it very difficult to locate one that provides the exact thing I'm looking for
In terms of the internal build, I have no idea how I'm meant to do the strip lighting and speaker wiring, power socket with fuse + switch, etc. into a powerboard/Raspberry Pie. Do you have a wire diagram of how you went about yours, or any help/guidance you can give? Also, do I require a cooling fan to run this, or is it just a nice to have?
What do your buttons do on the very front panel? I assume the black and white ones are the insert coins and 1 player/2 player, but what does the red button do?
For the acrylic that covers the monitor, I've noticed that you have a black border that covers the edges. How did you achieve that, because my understanding is there is no surface below the acrylic to stick vinyl or paper to?
For the back wire/cable panel, do you have any photos on how you've done that with any sort of USB/VGA ports you've connected and attached to the Raspberry Pie?
@PatrickTee your setup looks good in my man cave! Hahahah!
I got all my buttons at FocusAttack.com - I used all sanwa parts for the sticks and buttons.
The light strip, speakers and grills came with the bar top kit, I got the kit at ArcadeForge.de, their kits are top notch. I didn’t really use any special wiring, I worked my power port to a small 3 port AC power strip and just plugged a few power bricks to it on the inside, looks the same as if it was hooked up behind my tv haha, I may improve that later, but I don’t open it up very often.
Cooling fan probably isn’t vital, but oddly enough, old LCD monitors can actually get a bit toasty.
Red button on my panel is for exiting the game back to the menu, I actually have it hooked to a small kill switch on the underside so I can lock the game and prevent my 3yo from exiting my game haha.
The acrylic over my screen has a plastic cover under it, cut to the screen shape and painted black, paper doesn’t work under it, the pvc sheet holds its own.
I don’t have a back panel, it’s just a short hdmi from the pi hooked to a dvi connector, then to the LCD, nothing complicated.
-
@Capeman I'm new to this forum. I joined because I absolutely LOVE your side artwork. Where can I purchase it from you?
-
@PatrickTee could you please send me your art? it was great. I don't know how to work in image editing programs
🤩🤩
-
I just built my first bartop arcade and was heavily influenced by the art shared on this thread, but I included more of the Lucas Arts graphic adventure characters from my favorite games.
-
-
-
@tpardue023 Love it! Great work! It’s cool to see what characters other people include when making similar artwork to mine, it’s like a look into somebody else’s childhood, haha!
-
@Capeman great job, congratulations. it is possible to have the file in high resolution, I would like to make my bartop with this wonderful graphic
-
This probably took a lot of hours since just collecting all the sprites took ages but again looks really good really neat idea
-
@patricktee really nice design you did there ;)
-
Friend has original pixel art bartop arcade photoshop file of this artwork you can edit everything and there is like huge number of sprites if anyone is interested and would like to buy just send him mail bartoparcade@protonmail.com
-
@kitarist He absolutely does NOT have the original artwork. I have never released my photoshop files.
I've seen a bunch of people incorporate the basic idea behind my design since I first posted it here. Imitation is the sincerest form of flattery, and some of the users on this thread have created their own version of this design themselves, and that is AWESOME... but it's honestly frustrating and disappointing to see people claim original creation and sell variants of my design.
I guess this is how Nintendo must feel about the 8bitDo controllers and retroflag cases, haha. Oh well.
-
@patricktee Hey any way you can share a high res of this? i would love to use this on my cab
-
@capeman hey would you be so kind to share the files so i can print them out for my cab?
-
@capeman Long time again!
How have you been?
It's been a very slow process trying to build my cabinet and COVID definitely hasn't helped any.
Turns out the international shipping fees are exorbitant and thus I've had to start looking at making my cabinet here in Australia as opposed to buying it overseas. It made me realise though that there aren't really any great bartop arcade DIY kits in Australia that are to the same quality as Arcade Forge (Germany) and Game Room Solutions (America).
So I've been working hard with a CNC routing company to start my own DIY cabinet business. This is the progress I've made so far on the cabinet itself:
I'm now working through sourcing the marquee l-plate holders. I have some brushed metal ones but noticed yours are black. Did you paint them yourself, or did they come black? Also, were they pre-drilled for the screws to affix them to the marquee or did you have to do that yourself?
Also, for your joysticks, I've noticed that mine currently feeds a bolt through the top of the control panel for the nut to be tightened on the bottom. But this leaves ugly bolts sticking out the top of the control panel. I've noticed yours doesn't seem to have that. How did you get around it?
I reckon with the progess I'm making, I should have the first "final cut" of the bartop arcade done by end of the year to start selling in Australia. It's been a fun and frustrating process, but enjoying the creative challenge :)
-
@patricktee This already looks awesome. Are you a lefty, or is the control panel upside down?
My cab has the sticks screwed into the bottom of the cp, without anything protruding topside, but I honestly don't know if any stick will just go in like that.
Contributions to the project are always appreciated, so if you would like to support us with a donation you can do so here.
Hosting provided by Mythic-Beasts. See the Hosting Information page for more information.