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P-chan:

--- Quote from: Nephasth on April 12, 2012, 06:18:21 pm ---Man, this wiki thing takes a long time to do. Whatcha think? Am I on the right path here? http://wiki.arcadecontrols.com/wiki/Wiring

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VERY nice.  I never thought to use Cat5 for wiring up a CP, but it makes a lot of sense.
P-chan:

--- Quote from: Donkbaca on April 12, 2012, 11:55:43 am ---I hate to be negative, but I think the wiki is pretty much garbage a lot of it is out of date and its very disorganized, and the search function on this site is frustrating.  I think it would help a lot if we got our asses in gear and cleaned up the wiki, I'll work on it when I have the time to do so.

We should really fix this thing to prevent all the same questions that pop up over and over again. 

Vigo - I don't think what you are saying is out of line, as long as you don't bash other options, or misrepresent anything.



--- Quote ---As far as games I'm looking to play, I would have to say it's probably going to be pretty evenly split between fighting games (Capcom/MK/SNK) and old school arcade games (Donkey Kong/Rampage/Pac-man and the like).  I'm not a huge fan of shootemups.
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Here you are going to have some joystick issues as the best fighting game joysticks are usually looser, 8-way joysticks that make it easy to hit corners, whereas a lot of the old school games use 4 way sticks where if a corner is pressed, the game basically goes, "WTF?" and all movement ceases.  You can either add a dedicated 4 way, ( I hate this option, its confusing to have a bunch of joysticks in my opinion, but that is my opinion) or you can have some sort of switchable stick, or get a U360 that auto switches.  I would probably go U-360, they are pricier, but remember that you don't need an encoder with them.



--- Quote ---I will probably also put some console emu's on this box, most likely just NES/Genesis/TG-16 for a Mario/Sonic/Bonk fix.  These probably won't get played often, but they're fun and don't take up much space.
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I had emulators on mine when I built it, then took them out, too akward to play with a joystick, but since your TV is going to be walll mounted.  I suggest you go blue tooth PS3 controllers, or get a cheap wireless receiver from e-bay and use xbox 360 controllers.  Its the best way to do console emu.


--- Quote ---My monitor is likely going to be a widescreen HDTV that's on a rotatable mount on the wall in front of my cabinet.  The cab will be a 1/2 height cab, basically a box with a control panel on top.  I feel it's important to have the right aspect (vertical for games like Pac-man, Donkey Kong, Galaga, etc) and horizontal for fighting games and consoles.  I'm sure someone's done this, any tips would be appreciated.  When I'm done, it should look something like this :
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Tv's don't like to be rotated like that, they aren't designed to be viewed at those angles.  I say, ditch the rotation. The screen should be big enough to play the veritcal games just fine.  Remember these vertical classics were on like 17 and 19 inch screens.


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Thanks for the advice.  I will go with the U360's.  it really will only increase my cost by about 10 bucks since I don't need to buy the ipac.  Since the rotating TV mount I like isn't costing me any extra money, I'm going to give it a shot.  I'd like to play Galaga or pac-man on a 32" diagonal vertically mounted LCD in full screen :)
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