{"id":383,"date":"2009-10-04T07:53:27","date_gmt":"2009-10-04T10:53:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.pealefamily.net\/tech\/arcade\/?p=383"},"modified":"2011-01-03T10:12:26","modified_gmt":"2011-01-03T10:12:26","slug":"the-completed-control-panel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.highscoresrepair.com\/?p=383","title":{"rendered":"The completed control panel"},"content":{"rendered":"

I was finally able to get some time to rout out the parts that needed it. Here’s a picture before I apply the overlay.<\/p>\n

\"Q-Bert<\/a>
Q-Bert control panel without overlay<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

And after, with the art and joystick installed.<\/p>\n

\"Q-Bert<\/a>
Q-Bert Control Panel - Finished<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

And finally, a shot of the original CP. I don’t know why they swiss-cheesed it.<\/p>\n

\"Did<\/a>
Did anyone order the swiss cheese?<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Shots of the CP installed on the game when I take them.<\/p>\n

There were things I would have done differently, things I should have taken into consideration during it’s process. For example, the joystick is perfectly centered on the control panel. What I didn’t realize at the time was that the joystick frame now sits on the edge of the cab, making it impossible to sit down correctly. Easy enough to fix, I just have to nibble out a tiny bit of the front of the cab so it will sit flush, but I should have noted that before drilling all those holes. I would have installed the joystick just 1\/2 an inch higher. Oh well, it still works well.<\/p>\n

I played a test game to make sure the controls were still working, and wasn’t hitting the angles like I thought I should. For example, I was trying to go down\/right, and went up\/right and promptly went over the edge and died. But both my son and my neighbor’s brother played and had no issues, so I guess it’s just me.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I was finally able to get some time to rout out the parts that needed it. Here’s a picture before I apply the overlay. And after, with the art and joystick installed. And finally, a shot of the original CP. I don’t know why they swiss-cheesed it. Shots of the CP installed on the game […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[36],"tags":[37],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.highscoresrepair.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/383"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.highscoresrepair.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.highscoresrepair.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.highscoresrepair.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.highscoresrepair.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=383"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/www.highscoresrepair.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/383\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":490,"href":"http:\/\/www.highscoresrepair.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/383\/revisions\/490"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.highscoresrepair.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=383"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.highscoresrepair.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=383"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.highscoresrepair.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=383"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}