Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (1989) (KONAMI)
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1GrHYXiAuhI7nrgV08vswomF_vsFTLy7T/view?usp=sharing
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Thank you! Walter remade this TMNT overlay on request because the previous one was deleted for some reason!
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@walter.farmacia i like this. it’s much better than mine. the buttons and joystick looks so good
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Thank is a great team effort! Would love request KI1 with CPO as well. I think Walter did the CPO for it in this thread. I would add it but the preview CPO image is not in 4k.
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Walter, thanks so much for all your hard work. Beautiful stuff. Much appreciated.
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Thunder Fox (1990) (Taito Corp.)
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1FDB649YakLGEOZjPPXsSZY5vcAmK58lh/view?usp=sharing
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Killer Instinct (1994) (Midway)
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1-Kd3aijMugwo-cVjzJ0v6Ri4E-Gvc5Ai/view?usp=sharing
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G.I. Joe - A Real American Hero (1992) (Konami)
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1YkYzqcEGqKtmGzdRi8RWU0zBZPzSEaTY/view?usp=sharing
Point Blank (1994) (Namco)
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1QMle6ZAoftGj3VjuzQmvLBlA-7KjojZ9/view?usp=sharing
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@ArsInvictus are you ok buddy ? will you back to your fantastic work ? Hope everybody ok and safe in thos cracy times.
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Does anyone happen to have just the PNG for the entire black bottom section with the coin door? Like from the plastic strip down? I’m trying to make coin door versions for some of the ones that only have CPO. I think @PapaShine made it.
It would be best to have the original PNG, because it looks like there are some shading effects towards the top area of that section. This helps blend the game bezel with the bottom coin door section.
Thank you if anyone has the file!
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Hey @BlackTiger, thanks for asking! I’m doing good here, I’ve just been focusing more on my work and family. For the artwork I’m not sure, I have been mostly gaming on actual arcade cabinets with CRT’s and I’m less interested in playing on LCD’s. So I’m not as personally motivated to work on these as I used to be. I may get back into it at some point in the future but I really can’t say when that might be.
I’m really happy with the quality of what others have been putting up on here so it’s great to see there’s continued progress.
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Hi @tekn0,
I’ve got a number of sample PSD’s out in this directory:
You can see examples of my marquee effect approach as well as some CPO’s and the cyberbots one has the coin door there. If there’s a particular overlay you would like to see the source for let me know.
Hope this helps you and anyone else who wants to create more of these overlays.
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Thank you so much for this and all of your hard work, knowledge, and generosity. I just opened the cyber bots one and this is exactly what I was looking for. It’s quite the file so it will take a bit of digging into to get my head around everything. I may have a request for one or another in the future if that is ok. Best of luck enjoying your break away from this project and playing on your other cabinets!
Personally I have been behind the scenes collecting every single overlay in this thread, as well as all the variations and updates I could find. I’ve also started to figure out what you’re missing on the website versus what was posted here. I have been slowly putting all this together in a spreadsheet and creating an archive in google drive over the past few months. It’s not completed yet. I work on it when inspiration strikes, but it’s close. I have also been working with a theme developer from attract mode, creating a front end just to utilize these overlays, as well as starting to learn CAD/Fusion 360 to model and bring this amazing work into the real world. I am trying to design a sit-down cabinet for a 50’’ screen and doing some modifications to the existing VCabinets.es upright designs making more room on the controllers and a few other changes for a 43’’ screen.
Unfortunately with the state of supplies and the price of materials, the stuff might not come to light until the middle of next year, but I look forward to sharing everything with the community to keep this project going! This project is absolutely amazing, and has been very helpful for me personally in many ways during a tough time. It has helped me stay happy and inspired. So I just want to say a big thank you to everybody involved.
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Impressive work @tekn0! I love the front end work! We talked a lot off line about creating a turnkey solution like you are working toward so I’m excited to see how your effort progresses! This project definitely kept me happy and inspired for the last couple years too and thanks for carrying things forward!
Just let me know if you have any questions on the files, I’m afraid I’m not very organized with these things and the PSD’s were pretty messy so I apologize if they are confusing to look at 
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Thank you @ArsInvictus I’m so glad you like the progress! What is so great about this front end is that it will support multiple list “displays”. Meaning we can have one display for all coin doors, and one for all CPOs.
The CPO’s look absolutely fantastic. They work great when the control stick is farther away from the screen, like if the TV was mounted in portrait mode on the wall. So it looks almost like a poster. Or if you have a pedestal arcade where the screen is farther away. But, if the control stick is right next to the screen, it can look a bit strange to have the CPO directly above it. This is where I think the coin door style shines. I found these somewhere on the Internet and photoshopped in the overlays for these examples. I think these might belong to @PapaShine ?
Here the double CPO is a bit crowded with the controls and screen so close in my opinion.
In this mockup, the presentation has much more room to breathe with the physical controls using the coin doors.
So the plan would be in theory, to slowly create coin door versions of all the overlays that are exclusively CPO for use in a close cabinet, like the pictures above.
The PSD files you supplied are perfect. Thank you again! I already have one modded and the color changed just for a test run. I think the only other PSD I might need would be a good verticle template. Kind of like cyberbots in completion. Meaning it has all the speaker variants and the ability to change the coin door area color. I think Raiden would work perfectly if the color was changed to red using the adjustment layer technique. Then colors could be swapped to whatever is best for the overlay.
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Hey, good to see your post! It’s very generous to share your PSDs 
Glad to hear you are enjoying the new game room and real life 
Can’t say I won’t miss the beautiful works of art of your overlays popping up every so often , but I really appreciate your contribution to the community!
@tekn0 I’m happy to hear about your interest in this! And the front end looks like a lot of fun. I’m eventually going to build my own vertical cabinet, probably when I move to a new place and the Mega Bezel Shader is in a more “done” state. I’m not sure if you’ve seen it but the Mega Bezel shader might be something you would be interested in if you are using or open to using Retroarch, it does the screen scaling, bezel generation and reflection around the screen. I’ve got an update coming quite soon with what should be a big performance improvement.
Good luck on your adventure and it would be great to see your progress here!
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The Real Ghostbusters (1987) (Data East)
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1UvuZh7AIyyXMWSmxvvJxTUwOCGVhZlzs/view?usp=sharing
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@HyperspaceMadness Thank you! I am happy to share the progress on the front end theme!
Building one of these cabinets can be difficult because buying one in flat-pack format is sold out from the one vendor that has them. But in my opinion, those are too small. They only support a 32 inch screen with a huge hard bezel cabinet, or a 40 inch screen pedestal. I feel these need a 43 inch for the cabinet and 50 inch for the pedestal. That’s why I’m trying to learn to modify some existing designs from vcabinet.es. Also finding a 4 x 8 CNC is somewhat difficult.
I thought about designing a custom Vigolix that can support a vertical screen. Then it might be easier to trace and cut by hand. But that is a skill I would need to learn. As I have no experience with CAD or Fusion 360 design. I was hoping that if I can get the front end software side in order, and make it easy for people to set up a vertical arcade system, more people with the resources could start developing cabinets around it. Maybe I could get it running on a Pi or something like that so the entry costs would be low and that might inspire designers and builders.
I have definitely been paying attention to your shader. I think it looks really awesome! The only problem is I am currently using MAME .lay files in retroarch. This method only supports single-pass shaders. So complex shaders like yours do not load. I found a tool I’m looking into from a different thread that might be able to convert mame layouts to retroarch cfgs.
I look forward to seeing your progress as well regarding future versions and performance gains!
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Great to see the work being continued! Really strange to see the mock ups on those cabs (I had to do a doubletake, I couldn’t remember those two CPO overlays sitting side-by-side like that in any of my pictures at that time 
) they were hanging on the wall in my old workshop, and now live apart as the one on the left was a present for my twin - it’s a nice memory to be reminded of so thanks.
And I totally agree with your thoughts on the close up displays, I’ve since built another two of these vertical cabinets and while I love the control panel overlays for a vertical set up without a cabinet (much like you currently have from your pictures) one that you would sit some distance from, the whole aesthetic is far more pleasing with a coin door approach or something similar when you have the controls Just there underneath it as mine are for sure, definitely good to have the choice!
The original idea to drop those CPO’s in took some convincing for all of us at the time to get it feeling right (there everyone is entitled to build their overlays as they feel of course!) but keeping a quality/visual consistency was key we thought. I’m really pleased you are looking at this, just like @ArsInvictus I’ve had my head more focused on my family and work but I’m super proud of everything that the community here did (and still achieves !) through lockdown and I hope to contribute more in the future to.
I’ll drop a link to the coin door PSD’s if that’s useful? I’m not sure which ones you are using but you’re welcome to make use of it and anything else I put together for these.
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Heya! @PapaShine ! I think you did a great job on those cabinet builds! I hope you don’t mind, and with your permission, I may do a couple more mock-ups based on those photos. Since I don’t have the resources to build one myself at the moment.
I am actually looking to modify that design, I wanted to add more room in the control panel as I feel it’s cramped. I also wanted to make it serviceable so you could lift it up or access it from underneath easily. I also wanted to add a section in the rear, or the bottom for a soundbar. As well as a rear ledge for any additional hardware like a computer, Pi, or power strip.
I would love to find a forum or a place where we could discuss physically building these things, as I would love to see your progress. Or get any tips or tricks for how you went about building it. Did you CNC yours or cut it by hand? I was looking at building the Upright v.3 myself. I have so many images I’ve collected over the Internet with ideas, and notes related to the conceptual build. It would be great to have a place to share it and learn from others to create the best open-source CAD files.
I was also thinking about building what I’m calling the “electronic poster version”. This would basically be a 50 inch TV hung on the wall in portrait mode, maybe with a light frame around it to house a small single-board computer. Then a wireless 2.4 GHz controller or wired one could be used. You could even place two of them side-by-side just like in your image, and if they were not playing video games they could be displaying movie posters, music posters, screensavers, or pictures of family. Basically whatever you wanted. The “electronic poster version” would exclusively use the CPO versions to really flesh out the aesthetic. I think this will be a very simplistic and inexpensive way to elegantly experience these vertical arcade games.
I think it would be great if you were able to supply your coin door! I like the Williams one that is used most for general purpose and consistency. It would be cool to be able to get rid of the Williams logo in the middle though. So if I need to bring the coin doors up it wouldn’t say Williams on every cabinet. As some control decks are quite high. It might look strange with so much blank space, so bringing the actual coin door up more into the frame I think could be a nice touch.
Keeping the torch going has really been @walter.farmacia ! As he has been consistently creating new CPO versions. I hope to create coin door versions of his in the future when time allows. Also, I wonder if he already had access to @ArsInvictus PSD files? I wonder if he could get even more ideas or tricks to add into his already fantastic work! It still blows my mind how amazing this community is.
I think what would be really cool wishlist item for personal use if the time ever allowed would be to have basically two general cabinets with a default “CPO”, one horizontal, and one vertical. Kind of like a re-purposed cabinet you might see at an arcade, so if you really wanted to play a game, you could just throw it in with the default CPO or coin door cabinet. As thanks to @ArsInvictus for sharing his PSD files. Rapidly producing marquees might be a little quicker now. Although I am curious what AI upscaling algorithm he prefers for creating the 4K versions of the arcade artwork. As they are definitely not all equal. Some are trained on better material than others so they produce better results for our application.
So all in all, I absolutely agree that consistency is key. The CPO and coin door versions both have their strengths and places. I’m still so amazed what this community has accomplished here. I really feel strongly that this project will have an impact on the future and presentation of these classic arcade games moving forward. To me this is something that nobody knows they wanted, and I think once this project gets more attention the format could become quite popular!
Thanks again for everyone checking back in. It’s so glad to hear you all are doing well!
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