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AzureKnight:


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Shell-raiser is currently under development and looks to be very similar:


http://forum.arcadecontrols.com/index.php/topic,138959.msg1436407.html#msg1436407

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There it is!  I spent 20 minutes looking for that

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I was surprised I beat Scott to posting it  ;)


yotsuya:


--- Quote from: AzureKnight on November 19, 2014, 11:17:04 am ---I was surprised I beat Scott to posting it  ;)

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I'm sure he's off getting the firmware on his internal KADE upgraded. He'll be back shortly.

Cretster:

Thanks for all the input so far guys - I appreciate it, even with comments kind of dissuading me from what I've suggested.  I completely understand the reasons such things are suggested, and I'm always grateful for perspectives I may not have considered, even if I don't go along with some.  It's good to consider options even if I then go ahead anyway.  Sure you guys understand that too.

RyoriNoTetsujin - you've sort of hit the nail on the head, but kind of in the opposite way to what you meant.  Final stage looks great by the way mate!!

To clarify, after building one 'frankencab' machine and having it for quite some time now, I enjoy playing on it, but more so I enjoyed the challenge of building the project and making it fit together so it did just about everything I wanted. Yes I'm sure it'd fit into most peoples' idea of a horror cabinet or crapmame as it does indeed have just about every function crammed into it, but I like that.  I'm not after building a showpiece, or something that's really true to a real machine, but something that gives me the maximum versatility and the biggest number of options about what sort of games I can play.  It works wonderfully for that, but I'd really enjoy drivers more with a sit down design, hence wanting the best of both worlds.  Hope that makes sense - just trying to explain where I'm coming from as I'm well aware a lot of people don't like ideas like this.

But yeah, primarily it's the challenge of building something slightly different and seeing it work that I really enjoyed.  I love doing projects and trying to do things that are a little outside the norm.

Re' the 'transformation' aspect of it and the fact it takes time etc, I appreciate the 'hindsight' input on such things though thanks!
I can live with that I think, but only time will tell of course and it's quite possible I'd end up the same, being annoyed by it. 

I was actually going to do it as a manual thing where the parts are moved by hand, but I just remembered a few months back a mate of mine donated a pretty strong 12v ram, and said he has a second one I can have when he finds where it is. They could be perfect potentially for motorising it, or most of it at least.

Here's my existing cab by the way...
http://forum.arcadecontrols.com/index.php/topic,104968.40.html


yotsuya:


--- Quote from: Cretster on November 19, 2014, 03:17:58 pm ---Hope that makes sense - just trying to explain where I'm coming from as I'm well aware a lot of people don't like ideas like this.
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Why do you keep saying that? It's not that people don't like ideas like this, it's that people are giving you feedback on how practical they think it is (myself included). No one is thinking "Oh, you're a fool if you build it", they're thinking "I don't think it's going to work the way you want it to." Build it and prove them wrong if you're the type (and you claim to be, so...).  :dunno

Cretster:


--- Quote from: yotsuya on November 19, 2014, 03:32:42 pm ---It's not that people don't like ideas like this, it's that people are giving you feedback on how practical they think it is (myself included). No one is thinking "Oh, you're a fool if you build it", they're thinking "I don't think it's going to work the way you want it to."

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To reiterate, I appreciate the suggestions, whether I end up deciding to heed them or not.  I get the intent behind the comments.

But I beg to differ on no-one thinking that, when there are comments like "good luck banging your head against a wall" etc that's all. 
Sorry if it sounds needlessly defensive though mate - wasn't meant to. :)

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