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Green Giant:

--- Quote from: Knievel on January 26, 2012, 05:19:09 pm ---lol. Doing this one on the cheap I'm afraid, won't be anything revolutionary.  :laugh:

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:cry:

--- Quote from: Knievel on January 26, 2012, 05:19:09 pm ---Great feedback as always here.
Appreciate that link Dave. Lew you've got some great bartops there, nice work.

I am using 2 8-way joys and a horizontal screen in this.
Hoping the 8-ways will be playable with Pac-man and alike, time will tell.

I'm thinking 3 buttons in a pyramid shape at this point.

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I think you need at least 4 buttons.  The neo-geo options are too good to pass up.

As for the joys, you could go for a mechanical switching stick.  There is a bartop someone is building that uses an actuator, I think, to mechanically switch the joys between 8-way and 4-way.  One of these guys knows which one I am talking about.
leapinlew:

--- Quote from: Knievel on January 26, 2012, 05:19:09 pm ---Hoping the 8-ways will be playable with Pac-man and alike, time will tell.

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Prepare to be unhappy. Maybe you can look into the mapable 8 ways like the 360 from Ultimarc. Try out a switch based 8 way with Ms Pac and Donkey Kong - it's frustrating.
Unstupid:

--- Quote from: Green Giant on January 26, 2012, 05:33:20 pm ---I think you need at least 4 buttons.  The neo-geo options are too good to pass up.

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What the Giant said......  BTW this CP is 16" wide:
Le Chuck:

--- Quote from: Knievel on January 26, 2012, 05:19:09 pm ---lol. Doing this one on the cheap I'm afraid, won't be anything revolutionary.  :laugh:
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Hoping the 8-ways will be playable with Pac-man and alike, time will tell.


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They aren't.  Well, they are but it's lack-luster.  I'm not a 360 convert yet so I recommend Magstick+s or do a servo auto switch hook-up on a good bottom switching joy.  Added cost for the servo and controller is in the $40 neighborhood for everything and one servo can control both joys.   Magstiks are something I've never tried but they are physically restricted so +1 for that camp.  Servos just make ---steaming pile of meadow muffin--- ballin tho.

+87 to the fourth button.  Way to handy and no loss of real-estate.  

That said, I'm a total Knievel fanboy and will gawk and swoon over what ever you build like a ---smurfette---.  Because I always do.
Le Chuck:

--- Quote from: Green Giant on January 26, 2012, 05:33:20 pm ---There is a bartop someone is building that uses an actuator, I think, to mechanically switch the joys between 8-way and 4-way.  One of these guys knows which one I am talking about.

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