Free Hoops v1.0 (Arcade Basketball Software)

[thatpurplestuff]

This little project started because another user is creating an arcade basketball "cab" and needed some software to count baskets.  It's a pretty basic bit of code... most of which was ripped directly from my upcoming Free Skee software.  It should be ready to play as-is but it is also very configurable in regards to both functionality and aesthetics.  It's made for 16:9 screens and the default resolution is 1600x900 but as long as it is running fullscreen it should auto-scale fairly well.  You can replace all visuals by replacing the PNG files in the \images folder, and all audio by replacing the MP3 files in the \sounds folder.  Fonts are set in stone so you will have to work around them with any themes you make.  I typed up a readme.txt very quickly (which also contains some sweet ascii art) that is in the zip and should answer most questions.  It's a pretty obscure piece of software with limited uses but hopefully a few people find it useful!

Menu


1 Player


2 Player


Default buttons:
Up Arrow: Up
Down Arrow: Down
Right Arrow: Start
A: Basket 1 trigger
S: Basket 2 trigger

www.punchdance.com/FreeHoops1.0.zip
For personal use only.  Commercial use is prohibited.

[JimmyU]

I just saw these things on Gizmodo.

I wonder how hard it would be to hack one or two of these things to use your software.

[ventrra]

It's not useful to me yet (maybe in the future), but after testing it a bit on my computer, it seem like a nice bit of coding. Thanks

[thatpurplestuff]

JimmyU- Very cool!  Love the idea of a hoop that changes size... would be awesome to have more info on how it works because that would be a fun thing to play around with.

ventrra- Thanks!  Yeah it's a pretty niche piece of software considering I don't know of a single person yet that has created a working arcade basketball rig, but hopefully it might help get some builds going (at the very least I will be doing one eventually).

[ventrra]

ventrra- Thanks!  Yeah it's a pretty niche piece of software considering I don't know of a single person yet that has created a working arcade basketball rig, but hopefully it might help get some builds going (at the very least I will be doing one eventually).

I had actually thought about building one when I saw you post this since my wife sometimes plays the one at Wal-Mart .
Unfortunately, not only do I not have most of the parts at the moment, but I'd have to build it in the garage...
with no heat...
where it was 36F/2C today...
...
I think I'll wait a few months before seriously thinking about it. 

[Akin]

Good day folks.

I know this is 2024, but I have tried to get the FreeHoops software but no luck.

Could anyone here please help me with the file. I would be very grateful.

Thanks in advance.