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Rando's UAII cab progress - Playable!
Encryptor:
Any updates?
Rando:
--- Quote from: Encryptor on May 27, 2011, 05:21:41 am ---Any updates?
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Sure!
Basement is complete, flooring looks great, walls back to new, sump pump replaced, backup sump installed. Space needs to be cleaned up, but looks good & will try to post a pic or two.
Cabinet is built. I'm not crazy about the keyboard tray, but learned in another thread that inserting a coin between the track and board will help the keyboard to roll much better. Will try that out soon.
Moved the PC, monitor and speakers into cabinet to test fit, and experienced a bunch of trouble getting the PC to power on. Seems my Dell has a common quirk where it doesn't like to turn on all the time. Tried some fixes and ended up swapping out the Power Supply with one that I had in a broken PC. That solved the Power issue, but the PC wouldn't boot properly as the Hard Drive took a beating with all the power starts/stops. Tried formatting the Hard Drive/reinstalling XP but still didn't appear to be 100%. HD was an old 80G, so I dumped it for a 250G that I had lying around but hadn't formatted yet as I still have some files on it I don't want to lose. Installed the HD and realized that I had a version of XP on it, so computer booted cleanly although I think it's looking for the ASUS MB it used to be connected to. But as of last night, it appears to be stable.
So now I will reinstall MAME, MALA, and ROMs. Once I confirm the PC is back up to running/playable conditions, I order the buttons/sticks etc.
On my list to get:
IPac - Need to read up on options
Two 4/8 joysticks - Need to read up on options (Probably go with a Sanwa JLW?)
6 Red buttons (Older concave style)
6 Blue buttons
1/2 player buttons
Extra ESC or Admin button
Once I have that I will build a "test" Control panel since I have no idea what I'm doing there. Whenever I say that people say "it's not so bad, it's actually really easy..." which I'm sure it is, but wires and holes and cables... Oh my! :)
Once the CP is working, I'll see how I like the configuration, and add a Spinner, Trackball, and likely a Tron type stick as time goes on. Also want to add a push coin button for credits.
Then I try to build a "finished" CP.
If I left anything out above, please let me know... So much to do!!! :)
Encryptor:
Thanks for the update. I'm glad you got your basement situation taken care of so it won't happen again. In your research for joysticks you should also look at the U360 from Ultimarc. Do a search for U360 and read the many many comments from various people about them. I look forward to seeing the pics as well.
The CP wiring really isn't bad. It's fairly basic.
Rando:
--- Quote from: Encryptor on May 27, 2011, 03:03:55 pm ---The CP wiring really isn't bad. It's fairly basic.
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I know I know... :P Basic is the replacing the ugly brass light at the top of the light with something more game-roomy. Less basic is replacing standard lights with Ceiling fans in my house. Both of those I can do without issue, if the CP skill level is somewhere in between, I'm good to go! ;)
Formatted the new HD, loaded XP, went through updates, and am writing this from the gaming PC. Progress! :)
Rando:
Ok,
First off, let me say that Ultimarc and GroovyGear are AWESOME with regards to shipping. Placed my order to both a few days ago, and everything arrived today. Would have actually received the bulk of it yesterday but DHL needed my signature. Here is what I got:
Ultimarc:
2 Black leaf buttons
7 Blue leaf buttons
7 Red leaf buttons
Mini-Pac with Harness
Player 1 and Player 2 buttons
2 1/4 inch trackball with mounting plate
2 Ultrastick 360's, extra blue ball top
GroovyGear:
Faux Coin door
2 NovaGem Coin drop pushbuttons
1 Button wrench
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