Press the button

Just a small update today , had a few hours to kill stuck inside with the rain pouring down today, so I decided to finish off the navigation buttons.

I had to pull them apart and get the blue diffuser piece and use that to use as the template to cut out the paper with the labels on it. I used glossy photo paper , as that seemed to diffuse the light evenly and still keeps the LEDs bright.
You just cant notice it that well in the pics , tho. :|

All Systems GO !

I have nearly come to the end of the construction of the cabinet. Theres only the matter of putting the volume knob of the speakers somewhere handy to access , and the perspex over the monitor screen.
To begin with , I had Win98 as the operating system , but decided to change it to XP. That brought a few driver issue problems, but I finally got everything sorted out.

I have installed a Sega MegaDrive emulator as well, and currently have about 20 or games for that. A few old memories there .... :) Still have to get a few more into that collection soon.

I have configured Mala to be totally controlled from the control panel joysticks and buttons, which is handy when you are trying to find a game in the MAME list - which is pretty big.