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Rando's UAII cab progress - Playable!
newmanfamilyvlogs:
--- Quote from: Rando on June 16, 2011, 01:34:20 pm ---.... had the left/right movement to bypass the white screen.
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Dude.
Grab a different build of mame that has the No-Nag patch and Hi-Score support built in.
Groovymame here on the forums is a good choice. http://mame.groovy.org/0142/
MameUIFX isn't bad http://mame32fx.altervista.org/download.htm
Nephasth:
--- Quote from: Rando on June 16, 2011, 01:34:20 pm ---- Connected the Start 1 Start 2 Player buttons to the mini-pac and got them functioning. But didn't take the additional microswitch piece into consideration when drilling my holes so my buttons are two close together to wire properly. Had to turn my Player 2 button sideways to allow me to connect to the mini-pac. On the list of things to fix when I "re-do" my board.
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Can you rotate one button so both buttons have the microswitch contacts pointing away from each other? Then you could just take the plunger out of the button that is "upside down" and rotate it 180 degrees to bring back to "right side up".
Rando:
--- Quote from: cotmm68030 on June 16, 2011, 01:57:49 pm ---
--- Quote from: Rando on June 16, 2011, 01:34:20 pm ---.... had the left/right movement to bypass the white screen.
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Dude.
Grab a different build of mame that has the No-Nag patch and Hi-Score support built in.
Groovymame here on the forums is a good choice. http://mame.groovy.org/0142/
MameUIFX isn't bad http://mame32fx.altervista.org/download.htm
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Thanks Cot,
I agree but you're ahead of where I think I want to be. Right now things are working so I don't want to mess with the software until I get the Hardware finalized. I had experimented with MALA before my PC died which I liked, and looked into the Hi-Score posts, but I'm still not exactly clear on what it means to "Compile MAME" so I'm ignoring those options/steps until I start looking at FE's again.
That's when I'll look to simplify the options for the users, add hi-score support, hide windows, etc.
Rando:
--- Quote from: Nephasth on June 16, 2011, 02:40:28 pm ---
--- Quote from: Rando on June 16, 2011, 01:34:20 pm ---- Connected the Start 1 Start 2 Player buttons to the mini-pac and got them functioning. But didn't take the additional microswitch piece into consideration when drilling my holes so my buttons are two close together to wire properly. Had to turn my Player 2 button sideways to allow me to connect to the mini-pac. On the list of things to fix when I "re-do" my board.
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Can you rotate one button so both buttons have the microswitch contacts pointing away from each other? Then you could just take the plunger out of the button that is "upside down" and rotate it 180 degrees to bring back to "right side up".
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Proooooooooobably...
Being that these were the first two microswitch buttons I've ever handled, I can't say that I could do that, but if you're suggesting it, I probably can? :) Not a major issue now as there are some other design issues that I intend to fix with my future version, but I'll check to see if I can do what you're saying without snapping my button in half.
I was just happy to get the switch thingie attached to the button thingie without breaking those plastic prong thingies! ;D
Nephasth:
To take the plunger out of the button body (microswitch must be removed), squeeze (gently) the feet "thingies" of the plunger together and push them into the holes. This is a little easier to do if you can push the spring back a little with a small tool. And when putting the plunger back in, only squeeze the feet back together just enough to get them to fit inside the button body.
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