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Author Topic: I feel obligated to build a bartop.  (Read 2097 times)

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BadMouth

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I feel obligated to build a bartop.
« on: August 25, 2010, 12:00:54 am »
I got this pile of parts + multiple old CRT monitors + 2/3 sheet of MDF left over from my driving cab control panel.
I'm not sure I want a bartop, but the parts just keep falling into place.
Every time I pass them, they call to me to help them become something   :-\



The computer is only good enough to run the early 80's games, which screams 4-way vertical.
Part of me would rather just add a 4-way stick to my main CP, but it's all just sitting there waiting to be assembled.

All I'd have to buy is a keyboard encoder (or learn to hack a keyboard).   :dunno

must...finish....driving cab first...... :cry:



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Re: I feel obligated to build a bartop.
« Reply #1 on: August 25, 2010, 12:46:31 am »
buy a cheap game pad from GGG and hack it. Thats what I did and it was waaaay easier and better than a keyboard hack

http://groovygamegear.com/webstore/index.php?main_page=product_info&cPath=65&products_id=258

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Re: I feel obligated to build a bartop.
« Reply #2 on: August 25, 2010, 09:59:44 am »
buy a cheap game pad from GGG and hack it. Thats what I did and it was waaaay easier and better than a keyboard hack

I have an x-box street fighter pad that I absolutely hate (came with the SFIV). .
Not sure whether to try to hack it or sell it.
I'll probably tear it apart and experiment with it after the driving cab is done.