My Pi MAME - Tempest Cabinet project
  • bullweivel

    A friend gave me this cabinet, which of course good luck finding the parts for it. Currently the Tempest cabinet has everything in it minus board and monitor.

    Cabinet wise it is water logged in a few places, but overall it looks good.

    Goal is to replicate the original machine.

    Wanting Pi to auto boot into Tempest and have it so you don't see any of the boot process or any screens. Just apply the power and you go straight into Tempest not seeing anything boot screen wise.

    Also adding likely a J-PAC, and SpinTrak from Ultimarc.

    Power hopefully going to use a HAPP Jamma style power supply. Something that will light up the coin doors, the marque, and of course power the Pi.

    Its a work in process, but figured I would post it here for others to make suggestions and see my progress.

    The Pi and PiMame is realy the beauty of the project.




  • bullweivel
    Front of the Cabinet:
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    Side of the Cabinet:
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  • SSilver2k2SSilver2k2
    Nice. I always liked the Tempest cabinet. I spy an X-Men in the background :)
  • bullweivel
    The X-Men is actualy a track and field cabinet :)

    It might end up with Pi in it as well. Not sure yet, just matters what the parts run to replace what some other fool destroyed!

    I just get super annoyed seeing an old antique game destroyed by folks for not good apparent reason.

    Hoping to restore it back to Track and Field.
  • SSilver2k2SSilver2k2
    Awesome! I currently have a restored Ms. Pac cocktail, sit down crazy taxi, and I'm restoring a Nintendo Red Tent unit right now.
  • FortyRock
    Re not seeing the console boot up messages, there is a way to make them less verbose by editing the /boot/config.txt and changing the terminal they are output to. But there will still be some. You cod put the monitor on some sort of delay though (to only turn on after the pi had had enough time to boot). There are OS releases that boot super quickly but that would force you to move from PiMAME and use different binaries (if you do that, MAME4ALL is a fantastic option).

    To boot to tempest directly, edit /home/pi/.profile and change the line that boots into the menu to call advmame with the rom specified.
  • bullweivel

    Thinking 21" or 19" LCD, of course mounted Vertical.

    Another issue to figure out will be getting the display to go Vertical instead of horizontal.

  • FortyRock
    The monitor should have a VESA mount so you could secure it to a cross brace (likely with M4 screws and washers. Be sure to keep the mounting depth in consideration though (don't want to puncture anything).

    Then just change the config.txt as required for rotation and possibly width/height.
  • bullweivel
    Yeah the question though is how do I get PiMame to go vertical and not horizontal?
  • FortyRock
    Let the OS do it for you (see above comment re screen rotation settings on config.txt)

    See http://elinux.org/RPiconfig
  • bullweivel
    DOH..yeah i read your comment too fast and missed the line stating edit config.txt.

    Well dang it! I do not know why I thought the Raspberry Pi came with a VGA port.. DOH! Now I have to figure out getting it from HDMI to VGA. Plus sometime soon I might put this bad boy into a regular cabinet with normal arcade monitor, so that is going to be another issue.

    Oh well...one step at a time. Time to knock out the Tempest cabinet first.
  • JimD
    I'm using one of these...

    http://www.adafruit.com/products/1151

    works well, and converts the audio from hdmi as well, so you don't have to jump through hoops for the sound. You might have to play with config.txt to get the video right, but the website has some good instructions.
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