15-ish Years in the making

Main > Project Announcements

<< < (10/11) > >>

rbarr110:
Making slow progress. Between work and doing other fun things, and the fact I hate finishing work (clear coats)...progress is slow. Hoping to get the last of the 3 control panels done this weekend. T-molding came in this week so I can wrap the front edge of the panels and get it closer to a finished look. A few of the last pieces I needed to cut for the cabinet have also been done.

rbarr110:
Didn't finish the 3rd CP last weekend but did make progress, forgot to upload pics.

rbarr110:
When I did the design of the rotating panel, I did not have all the parts on hand. I wanted a U360 Flight Stick, but they were out of stock....then I saw the Tron reporoduction sticks and grabbed one. Also, didnt have a star wars yoke, but when I got both my design was about 1/2" or so off for them both to fit well. I ended up having to make some adjustments on the fly. Control panle 3 with the yoke, has a arc cut into it to allow the yoke to rotate the full amount. Had to also adjust the upper part of the contral panel with a hinge so the Tron stick could clear when rotated.

That being said, I did get the panels finished and wired up today, tomorrow will be testing it out to make sure the wiring is good.

bobbyb13:
Hope your test is a success.

As long as it actually works and plays well you should disregard everything else and just enjoy the ever-loving crap out of it.

rbarr110:

--- Quote from: bobbyb13 on March 13, 2022, 05:27:11 am ---Hope your test is a success.

As long as it actually works and plays well you should disregard everything else and just enjoy the ever-loving crap out of it.

--- End quote ---

It worked well. Panel rotates and no tangled wires etc. The only issues I am having is within the MAME settings itself regarding the device ID's. My Ultimarc Ultra-stik 360 are identified as 1 and 2 in windows and installed in the typical control panel 1 and 2 locations. However, MAME insists as using the P2 position as Joy_1 and P1 position as Joy_2. Tried doing the stable ID configuration, but I can't seem to get it to work. I could always just reset the config file so MAME assigns all P1 joy to used the Joy_2 and vice versa....but it really irritates me.

Navigation

 Message Index

Go to full version