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Epyx:
--- Quote ---Epyx, you won world-class brownie points with not only your help, but mentioning THE greatest arcade game of all time, the one, the only, Black Tiger. My God, I lost count of the amount of 10p pieces I fed that thing growing up. Honestly, if my cab ends up only having Black Tiger and R-Type, I'd be happy enough.
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Agreed and if you like Black Tiger then give Black Dragon a shot...same game only the Japanese version so much harder ;) And ya same with R-Type...great game and also one I play almost daily.
--- Quote ---So looks like the plan of attack will be snagging that Celeron machine (if he's willing and able to part with it - he's going to be building a cabinet right along with me, great friend and fantastic help in everything I've done brewing related, and there's no way my man cave can have one of these without his having one, too! But he has a few machines, including a newer server and a few higher end Macs that he's planning on choosing from) this weekend, and in the meantime I'll be ordering up an ipac2, two Sanwa JLWs (I assume these are the same as the J-Stik from Ultimarc, who I'll have to order from anyways, to get the ipac?), a few dozen buttons, and an X-Arcade trackball. Already have more wire than you can shake a stick at from building up my brewing equipment, and will build something akin to the Tankstick, but... homemade. Which was kind of the original plan all along, but this time, cabinetry will be coming into play, mwahahaha.
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My first real control panel I actually used the X Arcade as an exact template via my router but put my parts into it. Your parts are a good first choice and I don't think you will be disappointed. Good luck! :cheers:
Donkbaca:
good choice. If you haven't taken a gander at slagcoin.com I suggest you do. Lots of info on buttons, joysticks, Templates. Its where i got my joy and button layout from
ubermick:
Cheers again, lads. I've decided that my (eventual) build will be an attempt at copying Knievel's woody (I somehow doubt it'll end up looking THAT good), but the spacing info from slagcoin will come in handy when drilling out the top. Blown away by the volume of buttons on there (I count 28?!?!) but understand that two of them will be unnecessary (the two for the 4-way/spinner area, although may leave them in to use as left and right mouse buttons?).
Epyx, I'll be sure and have a look at Black Dragon. I haven't even pondered the software side of any of this, downloading the emulators, frontend, and whatnot - will cross that bridge when I come to it. (That's the part that's got me seriously worried, given my absolute lack of PC skills.) Was planning on following Mike Trello's advice from arcadecab.com, and send a hard drive to monstarcade for Jeff to load up. (Although a tad sketched on sending a complete stranger an external drive, he seems like a standup bloke from what I've read?)
Donkbaca:
Doh! Can't talk about where to get roms from. Against the rules. We can help you with pretty much everything else, how to set up mame, run emulators, just can't tell you where to get anything from.
ubermick:
Yup, read the rules, and wouldn't dream of it. Saint's got a fantastic site going here, and last thing I'd do is try and harm it by discussing anything untoward.
That said, now that I'm looking at all those buttons, I'm starting to think... WTF?!? Okay, I understand the six buttons per player for controls. I understand two of the additional three buttons per player for coin in, 1/2up. But how come four buttons for pinball? And I assume the four buttons on the front panel are admin controls, but thought you only need pause and exit?