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| EvilNuff:
I'm a big fan of sketchup...its another way for me to "measure twice cut once" as far as planning and your 29" door jam. As far as tipping, even without him mentioning that I'm not terribly worried. The majority of the weight with an lcd cab is going to be low where the pc is and even worst case you could always add weight at the base. My plans are delayed as well...my wife has agreed I can build a cab but not until we get a bigger house...so that first. :) |
| ragnar:
--- Quote from: EvilNuff on August 22, 2010, 08:48:45 pm ---I'm a big fan of sketchup...its another way for me to "measure twice cut once" as far as planning and your 29" door jam. As far as tipping, even without him mentioning that I'm not terribly worried. The majority of the weight with an lcd cab is going to be low where the pc is and even worst case you could always add weight at the base. My plans are delayed as well...my wife has agreed I can build a cab but not until we get a bigger house...so that first. :) --- End quote --- My wife is a stay at home mom that runs in home day care. She is trying to get her first job in about 5 years (special ed teacher). I hope she gets it so I can keep the cabinet in the main room (where day car occurs) instead of off in a side room till day care ends. Anyways, with the monitor, I can get almost everything planned. I want the LCD to be as far back into the cabinet as is possible. The KNeivel cab says that it is about 8" from the back. I am shooting for 4-5". I expect little to no wiggle room there. The sides will be deeper though to provide support and provide a nice look. The LCD will jsut be set in deeper is all. |
| ragnar:
I'm about to start the admin panel. That is, the panel between the monitor and the CP. I am using Mala for purposes of discussion. I have 2 u360s and an iPac2. The iPac 2 will be used for all buttons. The u360s are only being used for the joystick input data. The admin panel will house the P1/P2 start and coin buttons. So 4 buttons there. Now, I am planning out the rest of the panel’s admin buttons. I initially was going to do this: Green = Enter Yellow = Pause Orange = Menu Red = Escape I can understand having the red escape button. That is obivous. For Green = Enter, is that actually needed? I'm assuming this maps to the number 1. But, couldn't I have Mala listen for any of the buttons on the P1/P2 area and have those act as Enter? Would that require the iPac being reprogrammed for Mala use or could Mala actually listen to multiple buttons for enter? Yellow = Pause. How many people actually have pause? It almost seems like a cheat. As for Orange = Menu, I don't actually know what the purpose of that would be. Isn't this something that would be used for actually configuring the software? Adding/removing games, etc. |
| mgb:
You will definately want the exit button for obvious reasons. I don't think of the pause as a cheat. If I'm playing a game and then I gotta take a leak, I see it as a needed button. As far as menu and enter go, I dont see where you will really need those. Unless menu helps you in Mala (I don't know, I use Atomic Fe). If you are planning on using menu (tab) and enter for mame setup, then why not just use a wireless keyboard. Mame setup should just be once, but then if you do need to make tweaks later, just grab the wiress keyboard. |
| ragnar:
Your thinking is in agreement with mine. I can see your point with pause. And exit is definitely needed. I don't need menu but I might toss in a start button. I'll have to ask on the Mala forum about that. |
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