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elkameleon:

135 bucks for that PowerPak?! Seriously, go with the PC and save yourself some time/money/headaches.

Nephasth:

Look at from an arcade view, playing arcade roms in an emulator on a MAME rig is nothing like playing on real hardware. With a PowerPak, you can play your NES roms on real hardware. Some people are just as nuts over NES as others are over arcade games. I got a PowerPak a little over a year and a half ago. It brought back a lot of nostalgia and in the process kind of opened the door to owning arcade machines and putting together the Beast. I don't regret buying it, but I'll admit, it doesn't get used as much since the big games entered the house.

mgb:

I think its kind of a cool idea. I've thought about it myself before. Many NES games play fine with arcade controls. You may wanna wrap the actuator for quick tight response.
You cant just wire arcade controls right up to the plug on the console though. you should just go the route of hacking into actual game pads.

Definitely the power pack would be the way to go if using a console. I would say the console setup is more reliable than a pc using emulation.

DaveMMR:

Heh, when it comes between emulation (even official vc releases) and a real NES, I will always choose the latter. I spent much time on the console and I notice the little things that are "off". So I don't think the OP's plan is bad at all. And I used to love using my NES Advantage.

It really shouldn't be too hard a project. Hack up some pads and use some Molex connectors to switch out if needed for arcade games.

FALSE:


--- Quote from: kuehnau on March 06, 2012, 09:38:15 pm ---OK so, it's been a long time, but I've always wanted to build an arcade cabinet of some sort, I just was never sure what. The other day I got an idea for a cabinet I wanted to build so I am now thinking up plans.

I want to design a Nintendo arcade cabinet based around the original 8bit NES system. I have an old computer and monitor laying around, but I decided I wanted to actually use a NES system. It won't be hard for me to find a NES and a old TV laying around that are suitable for the project.

Right now I have a question about the controls. I'd like to actually wire in arcade controls so it feels more like an authenticate arcade cabinet. Now I've seen two types of controllers hard wired already, one of them a person takes apart a NES controller and solders the wires to the internals of the NES controller. The other one, a person actually built a  board controller for the controls.

Is there another way? I'd like to actually wire the arcade controls directly to the plug for the controllers that go into the NES, so that I can easily plug and unplug the arcade controls at my discretion, or is soldering them to the inside of the NES pad the most effective way?

Any other tips or hints for this project would be appreciated, this is my first ever project and I am pretty new at EVERYTHING.

--- End quote ---

IMO opinion the easiest way is like mgb said, hack the game pads.
You would have the arcade controls and the control pad all contained inside the same box or unit or whatever.
To unhook the arcade controls from the nes you would just unplug the control pad cord from the nes.


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