Or this classic approach...
http://crapmame.com/2019/09/15/crapmame-6-of-30/
Ohh Noes... The Amazon Scammer is trying to hurt my fee-fees. Whatever will I do?
You should realize, that Im not embarrassed about my Ancient Prototype. In fact, Im quite proud to have built THREE
Custom Controllers:
A Analog Sinistar Stick, with a Custom Rubber-X centering SpringA
A Super Hangon Controller, with Twist Throttle + Magnetic Reed switch Brake mechanism, that actually worked in mame
(That game uses two switches, to function properly)
A Starwars Yoke, with 4 unique triggers
I even built a Custom Spinner, with a Tron-Like Base, dual ball bearings... with the intend to TRY to eventually make it
out of Clear UV reactive Resin. Unfortunately, my plastics + molding experience was awful.. so that project fell apart
The truth is, I never cared if others thought my CP looked Ugly. It was built with the sole purpose of playing as
many games as possible, with the correct controllers. When everything was mounted together, it actually was
comfortable, at any of the 6 positions.
But mid-project... my ideas started to Change. For example.. I discovered the Joys of Leafswitch controls,
and that alone, threw my original designs for a loop. I also was struggling to make a custom 6 way shifter,
before eventually picking up some Race-Drivin shifters off of Ebay.
There were other issues too... Such as Mame not even supporting Toggle based shifters. No encoders that had
enough inputs for what I wanted to do... (without switches involved).
A lack of funds. A lack of Space (which is why I opted for one unit, rather than multiple cabinets / stored panels)
And being too busy with Work
Then my health took a nose dive.
Then all of my arcade controllers, got stolen out of my minivan (while in the process of moving)
Joy.
But yeah, keep trying to punish Creativity and Innovation. It just reeks of Jealousy, Pettiness, and bruised Ego issues
For the record.. the new Design Idea that was forming... was going to be a Horizontally Rotating system, similar to
another creative BYOAC innovator (cant recall the username anymore). Except my idea, was that it would be a
massive.. fully enclosed... "Environmental" box. It would have had multiple monitors, 3d Mirror effects,
surround sound / movie Theater, and would have had a suspended Bed that Lowered into place.
I also thought about making UV reactive plastic carved panels, so that artistically, it looked somewhat similar internally..
to the Discs of Tron Environmental Cabinet.
But eventually my health got super bad... and I lost everything. So be happy... because you likely will never see another
creative prototype, let alone a new controller.. from the notorious X2.
- But at least I can say, that I provided the Artwork Scans for Discs of Tron, in Mame.
(years before Mame could even support it in its proper full color depth)
- Created the Blacklight Backdrop photo for Video-Pinball, in Mame
- Sent Schematic copies in for Discs of Tron Environmental's lights to get working properly in Mame
- Got a rare TX-1 Rom Dumped for Mame (turned out to be a Duplicate, but still... it was Dumped)
- Helped in the process to get Multiple Mice into Mame
- Helped in the Arguments about supporting unique arcade controllers into mame (and took the abuses, for even speaking up about it)
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