Archive for March, 2007
Professor Pac-man control panel artwork dimensions
Got dimensions today for the actual Professor Pac-man control panel overlay. I am going to try to make a diagram at some point to demonstrate those estimations. For now, here they are listed out.
- Total Width – 23.0625 in
- Height – 11 in
- Distance btw pink border & edge on left & right sides – .5625 in
- Distance btw pink border & top edge of overlay – 2.3125 in
- Distance btw pink border & bottom edge of overlay – 2.25 in
Different Jr. Pac-man Control Panel Overlays
I got another photo today from Richard of three different version of the Jr. Pac-man control panel overlay that was originally produced. There are three here, one that was used on the Ms. Pac-man, Pac-man machines, one for the dedicated machines, and one for the Super Pac-man conversions. Check out the photo for examples of each.
Finished Professor Pac-man control panel vector artwork
Finished up the control panel overlay tonight. I took the font I chose, and pretty much used it with some small modifications. I turned all of the characters into outlines, and modified the letter” “s”, which seemed to be the most drastically different character. That, and the periods in the font were squares, and on the overlay they were circles. By repeating both of those characters I kept some uniformity.
I also redid the rounded pink borders, and wasn’t sure that they were a perfect match, but after redoing them twice, I thought they were very close. Here is a small exported image from Illustrator of what it looks like, with dotted circles of approximations of where the buttons would go.
Trimming down the new Ms. Pac-man back door.
Today I went over to Kenny’s and he helped me cut down the back door to the Pac-man that I have in the garage to fit in my Ms. Pac-man.The backdoor I had was so broken and waterdamaged that there was no salvaging it. I still don’t know what to do with the Mr. Pac, and since it is already painted a very similar blue, I thought it only made sense. We got the hole drilled in the back for the lock at approximately the same size, I haven’t tried it yet. If I want to be thorough, and I probably will since there is no rush with the game no working, I need to put the vent holes at the top of the board too just like the old one.
Jr. Pac-man overlay reproduction scan
As a sidebar, here is the scanned image of the Jr. Pac-man control panel overlay reproduction that I got in the mail with my sample. Pretty cool, Richard did a really good job in finding someone to make it, and picking the materials (poly carbonate and sealer) to make it feel
Testing Ms. Pac-man Power Supply
Today Kenny came over to work on all of the machines, including the Ms. Pac. We are going to start with testing the transformer, and probably all of the fuses.
We did determine that the marquee light is getting power, so the bulb, which doesn’t come on, is probably burned out.
He also figured out that the line coming off the power supply, an orange line that eventually ran to the PCB and powers that, seems to have a short. It was only outputting less than a volt, like .3. He did some testing with a jumper, but we blew some fuses, so for now he is going to take back what he learned and talk to other people and see what they think. But I think that is worthwhile discovery. It would explain why I was getting a white screen with a known working monitor, the PCB wasn’t getting power so hence nothing. But, I don’t really know, that is just a guess.
Using Pantone book to match Jr. Pac-man colors
Next door to my work is a print shop, so in the morning I went over there with my sample that Richard sent to try to do some color matching. It took a little time, but I feel really confident that I matched the yellow and the pink really close. The blue was pretty hard, and I didn’t find anything that was as exact as I would have liked.
These are the coated spot Pantone colors that I found were exact matches, or as I mentioned, best matches that I have found to this point.;
- Yellow – 109 C
- Pink – 674 C
- Blue – Hexachrome Cyan C
Richard still thinks he has a piece of the sideart from a Jr. Pac that he restored, so he is still going to look this weekend to try to find that to match the final two colors. Otherwise, I suggested having him get some hardware store paint chips and finding those closest matches, then send those out to me and I can compare those chips with the Pantone color book.
