I am not going to pretend that this is authentic, but it is worth showing. I would imagine that it was done by Blockbuster for the purpose of display, a looong time ago- before it would have been worth selling as rare or sealed. Strange thing is, it has a game inside.
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I cleaned up the image a bit. Print this at 2.04″ wide and 1.64″ tall.
If you look close you will see the changes I made, but I don’t have time to make it perfect right now. I have printed many things this small, and black is usually the biggest problem, but I made it truly black. This image is big enough that when printed, most people would never know the difference. The paper is key. You need high gloss white sticker paper. Clean the cart with mineral spirits & cotton, and then denatured alcohol. Apply mild heat w/ hairdryer, & sticker is forever. Good idea, btw. I have 2 pinballs w/ no sticker, we should do a scan for that. Nice scan kri55e.
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RunnerPack:
thanks for your help so far.
Surprisingly, I dont have any s-video cables for any of my systems 🙁
This is a screenshot from a gamecube using composite and the ‘dazzle’. Once I have some s-cables, I will post the difference.
Printscreen works while running the dazzle, so Im not really recording with it, just using it to play the games.
The whole thing seems to contradict logic: I dont see the difference between a pixelated digital image in a game, and a bitmap- type image on a computer. I would think you would get a perfect translation from one to the other, as long as the cables themselves can support the resolution of the image, and I would think composite would be adequate for older games. Forgive my ignorance… but hey, Im trying to learn. I just have too many projects at one time to focus. Thanks for the insight, though.
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First, I would like to change ‘high-resolution’ to
‘close-up’.
second, console types.
-nes
-snes
-n64
-gamecube
-genesis
-saturn
-dreamcast
-3d0
-xbox (and 360)
-ps1,2,3.
-anything that uses rca jacks (composite)
Shouldn’t a device capable of playing these types
of consoles (via the pc, not just the monitor)
put a useable image on the screen and I
could just press printscreen?
Does such a device exist?
the limiting factor you were talking about
is actually the rca jacks. I dont have s-video cables for
lots of these consoles- so the standard is r/w/y rca jacks.
obviously, that is quite a bottleneck in the picture
quality i will be able to get. I just want to get the best I
can from them.
thanks for help so far. I need to play with this
thing (dazzle) some more, but so far it seems
way to small of an image to work with.
So far that ‘sweetspot’ seems to be pretty badass, but im still researching.
RunnerPack-
I completely agree, it looks like polyethylene to me, too.
Hedgetrimmer-
Good luck getting the burrs out of it, its nearly impossible. This stuff cant be sanded because its sooooo abrasion resistant. Maybe this can be sanded just because its so little, but the burrs really arent bad enough to lose sleep over.
Its seriously tough stuff though, so it will never break, even if you never radius the inside corners. I have some little scraps, and a piece the size of a pencil can not be broken by hand.
I would also like to suggest maybe a countertop shop… they have scraps from sink cut-outs… a material called “Corian” or the like may be appropriate. It comes in black, and should be machinable. And they will prbly just give you their’ scrap.
Anyhow, thats really nice so far… but heres my solution 🙂
(the medallion in my pic is destroyed)
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hmmm… sounds great. Unfortunately, I am highly skeptical that this isn’t one of the methods I have already tried, or one of the methods already discussed here. Everybody knows what the problem part is now, so if you have a simple solution, please share. Good luck with your repair service, but most people here would prbly prefer to do it their self (I have a pile of them that need repair).
