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Amuzy Wanwan Dash cabinet to Splatterhouse conversion

Chrone

Chrone

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I recently picked up an Amuzy Wanwan Dash cabinet from the For Girls series. I tossed around a few conversion ideas and ultimately settled on my favorite game, Splatterhouse.

I didn't think to take a picture before I started but it looked similar to this but green.

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Here's mine
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The cab was a little banged up in shipping and needed some bondo work.

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I got the bondo done and painted all the metal parts black. I gave everything the old rattle can special.

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While that was drying I worked up a marquee/CPO in Illustrator. Since the current plexi is reverse printed with the Amuzy art I'm going to get it printed on laminated CPO vinyl and slap it over the top to cover the existing art.


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This is what I came up with. Here's a test print on paper. I need to adjust the red monitor border and I'm thinking I'll leave the CPO black since I'm using red buttons and a red ball top. With the drips it looks a bit too busy.

For the white sides I found some cheap black woodgrain contact paper on Amazon. I figured the woodgrain would fit the theme pretty well. The contact paper is absolute garbage but it came out great.

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Next up is wiring it for jamma. The Amuzy system looks pretty neat but it's got to go. I wonder if there are any carts that aren't children's games.

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I didn't realize how small this thing is and there's no way I can fit a full size System 1 PCB in there.
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It looks like that lower right chamber might work to hold it vertically if I cut the shelf, but it's a few inches too shallow.

Since this is for fun and I'm not overly concerned with keeping this original, I'm going to finish wiring it for jamma and put a Jamma RPicade board in it.

The CRT colors look great but it has some heavy Amuzy burn.

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The CRT
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I'm not sure what to do about the control panel yet. The metal panel has three holes drilled and I'm on the fence about adding a couple more and copying the Ghouls and Ghosts style panel with two buttons on either side of a center joystick.

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Or maybe it's too small and I should stick with a left side joystick and only two buttons on the right.


That's where I ended up. I still need to finish wiring it, put the monitor back in, get the final art sent off for printing, and decide on a panel layout.
 
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"While that was drying I worked up a marquee/CPO in Illustrator. Since the current plexi is reverse printed with the Amuzy art I'm going to get it printed on laminated CPO vinyl and slap it over the top to cover the existing art."

Can you take me through this process? If I get a cab, I'd also like custom marquee areas.
 
Sure, the process was pretty straightforward. I measured the existing Amuzy acrylic bezel plus the control panel and then added some bleed. Mine ended up 14 inches by 26 inches. I'm pretty handy with Photoshop and Illustrator, but I'm not great, so the creation of the actual graphics was just time-consuming trial and error. When I had something I liked, I printed it out on 8.5 x 11-inch regular paper sheets so I could tape them together and do a test fitting. This part was crucial, as I had to tweak things a few times. This was my final product:

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For the actual graphics, I found a high-DPI image of the Splatterhouse marquee and removed the black background using Photoshop. I created the red blood monitor surround by hand in Illustrator and then found some drip graphics online that I vectorized and modified.


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If you can't find any suitable high-DPI images for your project then you can take a lower resolution image and trace it by hand. The time to do this varies wildly based on your skill with Illustrator and it can be a painstaking process. I traced a move strip and sign over here and I'm probably 35 hours deep in that project due to the endless tweaking.
 
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Sure, the process was pretty straightforward. I measured the existing Amuzy acrylic bezel plus the control panel and then added some bleed. Mine ended up 14 inches by 26 inches. I'm pretty handy with Photoshop and Illustrator, but I'm not great, so the creation of the actual graphics was just time-consuming trial and error. When I had something I liked, I printed it out on 8.5 x 11-inch regular paper sheets so I could tape them together and do a test fitting. This part was crucial, as I had to tweak things a few times. This was my final product:

amuzy_splatterhouse_marquee.png


For the actual graphics, I found a high-DPI image of the Splatterhouse marquee and removed the black background using Photoshop. I created the red blood monitor surround by hand in Illustrator and then found some drip graphics online that I vectorized and modified.


bezel_components.png



If you can't find any suitable high-DPI images for your project then you can take a lower resolution image and trace it by hand. The time to do this varies wildly based on your skill with Illustrator and it can be a painstaking process. I traced a move strip and sign over here and I'm probably 35 hours deep in that project due to the endless tweaking.
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Do you find this process would be replicable with all Amuzy cabs if you found the right imagery you wanted? Are you satisfied with the vinyl?
 
Once you get all the artwork vectorized you can move/stretch/scale it however you want with no loss of quality, so it'll be really easy to use it in other projects. I haven't had mine printed on vinyl yet so I can't comment on the finished product. Mine is one solid piece, so I think cutting out the square monitor opening in the center might be a bit challenging to get it centered with straight cuts. You could add some cutlines in Illustrator and have the shop do it but I didn't bother with that.
 
Hello friend, I need the part of the dog's game tape, can you sell it to me?
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Hey just fyi: this game isn't dumped. It would be a good idea to get the cartridge to someone who can preserve it in MAME.
 
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