Made a TMNT arcade machine Ornament

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So recently I felt a bit crafty. I purchased a Pac Man arcade Ornament for $6 at Walmart, with the goal of converting it to a different arcade machine. 

I think it turned out pretty good.

I figured if it ended up looking Janky, it would be my janky! :) 

This is $6 I purchased at Walmart

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This is the finished product.

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Shiny!

From what you have shown it looks like you added some "glass" and buttons on the original piece, then I guess you flashed the device to put on an emulator?

But I could have that completely wrong...

Care to explain what you did?

EDIT: I'm a muppet as usual. I forgot that you wrote in the title that it was an ornament...

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On 01/12/2025 at 13:16, Nick H. said:

Shiny!

From what you have shown it looks like you added some "glass" and buttons on the original piece, then I guess you flashed the device to put on an emulator?

But I could have that completely wrong...

Care to explain what you did?

I spray painted the original one black, and then colored the lines on the outside of the machine green, though it ended looking more teal.

I scanned the sides of the original Pac Man one and put it in photoshop and designed the decals. The hardest part was photoshoping the TMNT logo and moving it to the left as it got cut off.

I then had to photoshop to cover up the old logo.

Then I printed them off on some sticker Vinyl Laserjet paper I purchased on Amazon. Cut them off and stuck them on.

There is no emulator. I just printed off a screenshot and put it were the screen is.

Below is a before and after the photoshoping

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On 01/12/2025 at 13:16, Nick H. said:

EDIT: I'm a muppet as usual. I forgot that you wrote in the title that it was an ornament...

I'm honored you thought it looked so good that you could actually play it :)

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On 01/12/2025 at 13:54, Warwagon said:

So recently I felt a bit crafty. I purchased a Pac Man arcade Ornament for $6 at Walmart, with the goal of converting it to a different arcade machine. 

I think it turned out pretty good.

I figured if it ended up looking Janky, it would be my janky! :) 

This is $6 I purchased at Walmart

This is the finished product.

 

Wow, that is awesome. The tiny coin slots :') How long did it take you?

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On 01/12/2025 at 19:09, gargantua said:

Wow, that is awesome. The tiny coin slots :') How long did it take you?

To photoshop the decals took about an hour.

Spray painting took about 5 mins

Coloring the lines of the machine took about 5 mins

and over all designing what I wanted to do took a couple hours.

Over all probably 4 hours here and there.

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