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| Project: My first cabinet - Mid 90s and before! [Complete] |
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| jeremymtc:
Ouch! That bites on the encoder. Condolences. On the other hand, your cab is looking great, and I dig the coin reject power button hack! |
| Zebidee:
--- Quote from: minorhero on October 14, 2024, 07:08:11 am ---If I were building this for someone else I would definitely include a proper power button somewhere. But as it is, this machine will never leave my house, and wow, is it satisfying to press in that coin return button. The feel of it engaging the mechanism makes it easily the best pc power button I've ever used. It makes me want to find ways to mod my actual gaming pc :P --- End quote --- I love your power button. Now here is an idea. If you ever decide to implement power-on in another way, you could re-purpose the coin reject button to give credits instead. This has already been done by many people on this forum, so it obviously works and would continue to give that satisfying "engaging the mechanism" experience. |
| minorhero:
--- Quote from: jeremymtc on October 15, 2024, 12:19:47 am ---Ouch! That bites on the encoder. Condolences. On the other hand, your cab is looking great, and I dig the coin reject power button hack! --- End quote --- Thank you! and yeah, the ipac dying was without a doubt the most annoying thing that happened this project. --- Quote from: Zebidee on October 15, 2024, 04:27:08 pm --- --- Quote from: minorhero on October 14, 2024, 07:08:11 am ---If I were building this for someone else I would definitely include a proper power button somewhere. But as it is, this machine will never leave my house, and wow, is it satisfying to press in that coin return button. The feel of it engaging the mechanism makes it easily the best pc power button I've ever used. It makes me want to find ways to mod my actual gaming pc :P --- End quote --- I love your power button. Now here is an idea. If you ever decide to implement power-on in another way, you could re-purpose the coin reject button to give credits instead. This has already been done by many people on this forum, so it obviously works and would continue to give that satisfying "engaging the mechanism" experience. --- End quote --- Thank you! I will keep it in mind for any future cabinets, this one though is complete. And with that said, project done! I got in my new ipac earlier in the week. Once installed I figured out what was causing me so much fuss with LEDBlinky. It seems I had not actually pointed the darn config file at the correct folder. I had instead pointed it at a different installation of mame on this computer. BigBox was using its own seperate mame installation and the difference between those 2 was causing my buttons to not light up appropriately. Once I realized I had more then 1 installation of mame, it was easy to sort out and everything started working. Tada. Now to figure out how to convince The Wife that what we really need next to the arcade cabinet is a virtual pinball table. |
| pbj:
Looks great. Someday, you might consider getting a widescreen monitor and rotating it vertically to fill up more of that bezel area. They're dirt cheap now. My last HDTV was literally $1 and sealed in the box at an estate sale 3 minutes away. Alright, I lied, there was an additional 27 cents in fees. |
| jeremymtc:
Congratulations on completion!! :cheers: Love how your artwork came out. Cab should be a ton of fun. Great work. |
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