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My first multi arcade cabinet (Update) Vertical Conversion
Baldark:
-UPDATE- -- Converted cab into dedicated vertical machine Check it out.
I finally made the conversion to vertical. I also made a video you can watch with me explaining what I did. I'll also post good pictures of it because the quality of the video is just plain awful.
-Old news-
Hello everyone, this is my first post I believe. I just about finished my own project that I have been working on for about a year now. I'm pretty satisfied with it except that it doesn't have a 4-way stick. I was thinking about adding one to the control panel, but I won't be doing that for a while. I posted some videos of it on youtube that I'll link below.
I bought the cabinet from a guy locally for $50. It was an old phoenix cabinet that had been gutted long ago that was missing it's coin door and control panel. The sideart and marquee were in rough shape. I made the mistake of buying an x-arcade tankstick instead of making the control panel myself, but I'm sure almost everyone makes some bad choices with their first project. I had to cut into the cab in order to mount the panel to the cab. This was another mistake of mine.
Despite my regrets, I'm still happy with what I got.
You'll also notice I swapped out the x-arcade sticks with sanwa jlw sticks/square gates. I left the buttons stock.
I bought an old coin door from Arcadeboneyard. I removed 1 button from both players and ran the micro switch to the coin doors so that whenever the coin return button was pressed, it would add a credit to the game.
Since the panel is an x-arcade product, the adapters let me link the system up to both my ps2 and ps3. Due to this fact, there are a lot of cables running inside. I did my best with organizing the cables by strapping them together, but it's still a mess in there.
Tell me what you guys think of it. Be sure to check out the final video for it's also my latest update.
Videos
XNIF:
nice. Now you have learned from you mistakes you can do a scratch build :cheers:
drventure:
Can't see much but it looks pretty decent, esp for a first build.
It'll definitely give you something to play with while you're waiting for parts/paint to dry/etc while building your new cab ;)
Baldark:
I have a question. Is it possible to wire two different joysticks together so that they are both the first player? I want to add another joystick to the control panel that is a dedicated 4 way stick.
hockeyfreak186:
--- Quote from: Baldark on August 20, 2010, 08:52:25 am ---I have a question. Is it possible to wire two different joysticks together so that they are both the first player? I want to add another joystick to the control panel that is a dedicated 4 way stick.
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Yes it is possible. Im not quite sure how to do it on an x arcade stick as I have never owned one, but im sure it wouldn't be too hard, just wire up to the same up/down/left/right as the existing stick. Just make sure no one starts messing with the other stick when your about to break your high score! :lol