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Anyone playing bemani games on their cab?
Sephroth57:
so is this actually in the works or just your plans for now? id like to see how its coming because i plan on doing something like this eventually, id like to make my current cabinet dedicated mame and have a dedicated BEMANI so i would have to swap controls so much
b3atmania:
--- Quote from: LOKIOLR on December 09, 2003, 10:26:46 am ---Well I will be playing bemani games on my cabinet. For current project the BEMANICAB, I'm building a few control panels to go with each game. First a DDR setup, which is basically 2 sets of the menu select arrows. The DDR stages connect to the bottom of the front panel of the cab. Also there's the IIDX setup with full arcad sized turtables and buttons. Pop N Music with 9 slighty smaller pushbuttons. And finally Dancemaniax with custom made optical sensors. Then of course there will be the standard 4P mame setup. I'll be putting up pics and a website as soon as I get further along.
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Where did you find the full arcade sized turntables? I've been looking anywhere to buy 'em. I have every official (not the third party clones) PlayStation Beatmania controller and the turntable on those is about 60% of the arcade size. I don't consider them appropriate for an arcade panel as it won't look authentic.
Also I need a source for arcade Beatmania buttons. They appear like the buttons you find on poker/fruit machines, but they are not. The arcade beatmania buttons have minimal travel and can be tapped in quick succession. They also need to be recessed more than poker buttons for comfort.
Also, can someone confirm the dome buttons sold by Suzo are the type used in an arcade Pop'n Music panel or Bishi Bashi panel?
LOKIOLR:
Well for beatmania some good scematics can be found here:
http://www3.ctktv.ne.jp/~pamnes/bmc/bmc.html
As for the buttons I got them from happscontrols. They're just rectangular 2" illuminated pushbuttons.
The cabinet is in the cutting stages. I have all of the actual cabinet pieces cut and they will be put together next week. Then I can begin on the CPs. The turntables are being done very strange. Reason being the way my cabinet is being setup it will have option controller outputs so the CPs can be hooked to the console systems and an external A/V in on the side of the cabinet so those systems can be played on the cabinet monitor. Because of that I couldn't do the turntables via an standard optical setup. So for these turntables to act like key presses I'm using 2 atari trackballs and hacking them for their optics. That way the output is exactly like a standard keypress.
The pop n music buttons are the same jumbo dome pushbuttons found on happscontrols. I unfortunately didn't use those because they were too expensive.
hooded_paladin:
I'm sorry for the bump, but ... I can't resist replying to Bemani stuff.
As for people wanting Pop'N Music stuff, there are some nice cheap options nowadays.
Big Getting-into-Pop'N FAQ
Ransai controllers $250 + miscellaneous fees
Desktop Arcade controllers $200 + shipping
BYOPop'N (around $100)
Wico Dome buttons, significantly cheaper than Happs
I don't think Pop'N is emulated, but there are Pop'N Simulators
--- Quote from: LOKIOLR on December 09, 2003, 10:26:46 am ---And finally Dancemaniax with custom made optical sensors.
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I didn't know there was a Dancemaniax home version, emulator or simulator. Could you tell me where to find one? And maybe where to get those instructions, if you didn't come up with them yourself.
walls83:
I use stepmanina and it works like a champ I got about 900 songs for it..
stepmania.com