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| drventure:
--- Quote from: Praxi on June 18, 2013, 01:31:22 pm ---So I read a whole bunch about FrankenPanels (Thanks P1), is it a FP just because it has 4 joysticks on it? --- End quote --- Not at all, and don't take too much of the Frankenpanel discussion to heart. The main thing is to build what you want. Good panels can be built that support a large number of games and don't look like they should be on crapmame. If you only have space for one cab, that might be the best choice. If you've got a whole basement, build dedicated cabs (one for vertical shooters, one for horiz fighters, a pin cab, etc etc). All just depends on what you want and where you want to go with it. --- Quote from: Praxi on June 18, 2013, 01:31:22 pm ---After more reading and the comments here, I'm thinking players 1 and 2 will have 6 buttons, players 3 and 4 will have 4. Does that seem reasonable? Most of the plans I look at include a bunch of other junk (trackballs, spinners, things I don't think I want). Any recommendations for plans that don't contain all that other stuff? Or a tool I should draw them in? --- End quote --- Sketchup is a great tool for laying out CPs. If you don't plan on playing games that require a trackball or spinner, leave em out! You'll save money, and have a cleaner panel. One thing to do is put together a list of games you want to be able to play, maybe a "must" list, a "like to play" list and a "I'll never play that" list. I used Romlister to filter games by controllers required. Really good tool for that. For instance, i +really+ wanted to play two man marble madness. Well, that requires 2 trackballs. I also wanted to be able to play tempest and that requires a spinner. and Gauntlet. and I really wanted to be able to play 4 man warlords, but that just was taking it over the edge :D |
| paigeoliver:
I have had a few different frankenpanels on different machines and I have found that once you get used to the machine you will generally avoid the games that require you to reach in past the first row of controls. |
| Chris John Hunter:
Praxi, you could actually just build a control panel. And what you do is, plug the panel straight into a pc and away you go. If you had a big enough panel and an xp pc you could take it apart, put the whole thing in the panel. Thats what some US companies are selling now. Then you just plug it in and use a cable to connect it to your tv even. Would be a lot cheaper. And I have to agree with Paige on that, if your building a 4 player system its £££ or $$$ there really is no quick and cheap solution certainly although PI can run Classics. Even the 60-1 lot. I wouldn't put one in anything expecting to play decent fight games . |
| tivogre:
Wow... it's been a long time since I dropped by here! It's interesting to see that folks are still occasionally discussing my cab (the one in the OP link); many of the comments are the same as the ones I was getting in 2005 / 2006 when it was built! The cab is still going strong; the web page on the build has gotten over 65k hits! Cheers all! |
| Cynicaster:
--- Quote from: Praxi on June 18, 2013, 12:24:37 pm --- My goal is mainly 4 player arcade games, that will probably be 50% of the gaming on it (3 players really wife all ways doing other stuff). Thinking Gauntlet, Xmen, and any others of that ilk. --- End quote --- I bet that after the first 2-4 weeks, 90% of the gaming on it will be single player (i.e., you). I don't know your family obviously, but I'd be careful not to overestimate the lasting allure of something like a MAME cabinet to most normal people. |
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