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Ideas on mounting large crts?
Edgecrusher:
--- Quote from: Zebidee on December 22, 2021, 07:57:57 pm ---You will need a good mechanic-friend, because you'll need an engine hoist to get that 32" TV into a cab
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I'm that guy with about any tool you can imagine including a hoist. I have a couple bro-in-laws coming for xmas this weekend. I think I'll build a temporary platform in the room I plan to keep it and between the three of us we should be able to lift 200lb up there. Then, later, when the cabinet is built I can just push it off and onto the cabinet if I plan it well enough.
Edgecrusher:
--- Quote from: Malenko on December 23, 2021, 09:19:30 am ---
--- Quote from: Zebidee on December 22, 2021, 07:57:57 pm ---You will need a good mechanic-friend, because you'll need an engine hoist to get that 32" TV into a cab
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I laid the cab on its side, put the TV in place then stood the cab up.
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I considered this too.
Edgecrusher:
Yes.
This will be a Mame style cab. I have Big Box which I really like which will have Groovymame running behind it with Atom and CRT Emudriver to this 32" Sony that's been RGB'ed to a 1G AMD HD8570 GPU in a tower running Win10 with 8G of ram. It'll be set up to mainly run fighting arcade games. I'll start it off as a two player and see how I like it and if I choose to I'll make it a 4 player. I have a couple Sanwa JLF's for it and a mix of Sanwa and Siemitsu buttons to try. I've never had these so it'll be neat to see the difference from the EGStarts cheapo set I bought on Amazon for my cocktail table for the wife. I'm waiting on a Thunderstick LED trackball and I already have a Thunderstick spinner and the interface board for both. I really wish I could find a decent two slot coin door to use, but I may just skip past that and have coin button on the CP. Coin doors are super cool if they work and they look authentic. Anything less makes everything look cheap. I'll probably put the ball between the two joysticks and have a separate higher level on the CP with just the spinner and a couple of buttons. Six buttons for each stick. I might run some shmups on it too only thing being I will have 8 way sticks and some of my shmups run 4ways I believe. In the future, especially if I go 4 player, I'd like to get a Ultra stik so I can program the stick to be whatever type I want for that particular game. But for right now I got enough to figure out.
Edgecrusher:
While I got some people's attention:
I was wondering, Is there any particular formula for spacing the controls from the user? You know, like having a little material on the edge so you can lean against the cabinet while you pay? I've been making mental notes on how people are arranging their CP's and it seems some leave quite a lot of real estate in front of the stick and buttons.
Zebidee:
Sorry for poking fun :D I am truly looking forward to seeing your massive cab in action! :notworthy:
I think coin doors are over-rated. However, if you poll members here, I may be in the minority.
Coin doors are great in a cab with an original-classic look. However, for a home cab that is designed for playing comfort with mates at home, I prefer to use that real-estate for a small recessed mini-control panel for mounting a few special buttons (e.g. credit, pause, "admin" (press button to change mapping for main buttons), volume control, USB and audio ports). I use coin doors in cabs too, clearly the best option if you want to place a cab in a public place, just saying there are alternatives.
Control panel dimensions and distances... well that is always a fun question, having just gone through it again myself. I recently went through a bunch of control panel layouts looking for the right thing. Looking at a bunch of layouts I noticed that some had the joystick approx 59mm away from the nearest buttons, but some were up to 95mm away from the nearest buttons. However, I also have a control panel blank from an original/commercial cab of approximately the right size, and the joys were 75mm distance from the buttons. This felt right for the CP size so I chose 75mm and adapted the layout.
You can see a bunch of joystick/button pattern layouts at the slagcoin site here:
https://www.slagcoin.com/joystick/layout.html
You can then print the layouts to size and use that as your drilling template.
For the buttons I used a slanted layout from the Slagcoin site, with button heights offset to match the natural shape of most people's hands/fingers. This layout uses a little less space than most too.
As noted above, I moved the joystick in to be 75mm away from the buttons, rather than the 95mm on the Slagcoin layout (measure from centres rather than edges). The cab will mostly be used by smaller people (like kids... or my wife) so this tighter arrangement works well but still gives plenty of room.
I attached a photo from a few days ago, just before I started drilling the big holes. You can see the paper tape and pencil lines I used to help precisely position the holes. Control Panel is a total of only 535mm wide but the layout leaves two smaller-sized players with plenty of room.
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