Doom now inside an Arcade Cabinet!

[Ozymandias81]

No more words, just look to this link and have an heartache.

http://www.necrosoft.nl/?p=1386

[Nevander]

That is probably the most badass thing I have ever seen.

[enderkevin13]

Didn't they already have them?

[Mikk-]

Didn't they already have them?

nope

[NeuralStunner]

Why Doom 2 and not 1?

Also, I hope that machine can't actually take quarters, because I'm sure that'd be woefully illegal. (It's possibly "borderline illegal"* anyway, but if money exchanges hands, that'd get the wrong kind of attention.)


* Should be no different to putting a legally purchased copy of DOOM onto a regular computer, which you set up in your store/arcade for anyone to play. I expect that would be okay, but I'm not a lawyer.

[leileilol]

That would be covered as "unauthorized commercial exploitation" which is forbidden with Doom's data.

it might work for an open source game though, after all a Nexuiz cabinet was on Flashpoint once.

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(also displayed prominently in the footage is my muzzleflash model for the machinegun!!!! wOw my creative work got to teh TV waves!!!)

[Kinsie]

I like how their are no screenshots of it actually... running Doom 2.

Saves me having to write a itrunsdoom post, I guess!

[NeuralStunner]

Reading the blog post through, apparently it's just a "DOOM II themed arcade cabinet" housing a PC, and I'm not sure if the light gun is even functional.

I guess that would make this (more or less) a very specific PC case mod.

[XCVG]

It's a Doom-themed MAME* cab, essentially. He mentions it does have a one Euro coin acceptor. It's definitely not a commercial machine, so I guess it's for novelty value at parties and such or something (IIRC Benheck did this). It's probably still technically illegal, but it's not like he's putting this thing in a store and charging customers for it.

*And other emulators. I don't like the term MAME cab personally.

It is odd that he hasn't demoed Doom on it, though. I'm actually working on a customized version of Doom for my MAME cab (not Doom themed), and I actually posted a picture of it back in August.

[wildweasel]

Customized Doom, eh? Have you altered the gameplay at all to be more arcade-like? Are you, perhaps, using Gooberman's "Doom The Arcade Game"?

[XCVG]

Customized Doom, eh? Have you altered the gameplay at all to be more arcade-like? Are you, perhaps, using Gooberman's "Doom The Arcade Game"?

I wasn't aware that anyone had attempted it before, actually.

Mostly it's aesthetic changes at this point- coloured lighting, new skyboxes, and occasional slopes, 3D floors, and polyobjects. Some layout changes and reordered episodes. New music, too. I've figured out how to do a lives/credits system and tested it in a basic proof-of-concept manner, but I haven't got around to making it nice and polished so it's disabled for the time being. I have some changes to weapons and enemies in mind, but I haven't made it to that point yet. The idea is to make it look like an arcade port made perhaps a few years later than the desktop version.

The long and short of it is that it was going pretty well until real life and other projects got in the way.

[enderkevin13]

Customized Doom, eh? Have you altered the gameplay at all to be more arcade-like? Are you, perhaps, using Gooberman's "Doom The Arcade Game"?

I wasn't aware that anyone had attempted it before, actually.

Mostly it's aesthetic changes at this point- coloured lighting, new skyboxes, and occasional slopes, 3D floors, and polyobjects. Some layout changes and reordered episodes. New music, too. I've figured out how to do a lives/credits system and tested it in a basic proof-of-concept manner, but I haven't got around to making it nice and polished so it's disabled for the time being. I have some changes to weapons and enemies in mind, but I haven't made it to that point yet. The idea is to make it look like an arcade port made perhaps a few years later than the desktop version.

The long and short of it is that it was going pretty well until real life and other projects got in the way.

*insert "whoa" whistle here*

[Oberron]

Was that shown in a 1997 film? It was a PC with a film prop inside...weird, but unusal.

[mallo]

No, this is not related to that one reference. This is an actual cabinet while all the movie had was a prop.

[Oberron]

I was talking about Doom II. I thought an arcade version was never released.