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Astro City 2 dual JAMMA / emulation cabinet
Kokapetl:
Here's a few more things. First is the large sheet of steel that sits beneath the monitor (to be used for upside-down mounting of my PC).
The PC is mounted, the speaker-looking-thing is just the re-wired amplifier from a PC speaker (so that the signal is strong enough for the arcade speaker).
Here's also a layout of the special-keys I'm planning on using.
I've mounted a microswitch in the coin mech (for the jam-release button) which will register (upon release) a coin insert.
This is my "shift key" on my JPAC controller.
When the coin-jam release is being held in, the other buttons will be:
p1 start - pause
p2 start - mame in-game menu (for changing button config etc)
p2 A - load state
p2 B - save state
p2 C - service menu (for changing game difficulty, free play mode, etc)
p2 D - save slot 1
p2 E - save slot 2
p2 F - exit game / shut down (from menu)
I think I'll probably also have:
p2 up - volume up
p2 down - volume down
BurgerKingDiamond:
The new paint looks nice.
emphatic:
--- Quote from: BurgerKingDiamond on December 07, 2010, 07:31:21 am ---The new paint looks nice.
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+1. I wish I hade the space/time to repaint my EGRET IIs. But with small kids/cats in the house I feel that I can just wait a couple of years so that they playing with crayons etc will be far behind them first. :D
Your PC mounting, how will the heat travel from the motherboard/Processor? How do you plan on keeping it cool?
Kokapetl:
--- Quote from: emphatic on December 07, 2010, 09:24:12 am ---Your PC mounting, how will the heat travel from the motherboard/processor? How do you plan on keeping it cool?
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I haven't really thought much about heat to be honest, my decision of where to put the computer was mainly just a case of "where will it fit?".
There's a fan on the processor, one on the video card, and 2 case fans, I might get some silent fans to encourage airflow out of the cabinet then just leave it running for a while and check on the temperature.
One thing worth mentioning to anyone who might want to mount a computer upsidedown - dip switches and small pin connectors have a tendency to fall out!