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Kaytrim:

Ok fighters, return to your corners.  :laugh2:  This was an interesting argument and not entirely pointless.  IMHO you can interpret BYOAC to be either Build Your Own or Buy Your Own.  It is all a matter of taste, skills and cash.  Personally I own an Oscar Vortex spinner that I have hacked into a mouse.  In that regard I am of both camps.

 ;) I will say that I like the idea of using Randy's encoder wheels to build your own spinner.  I might even do that to build the CP for my FE.  Using a spinner to page through the games list sounds like a good idea and one that I am currently working on.

patrickl:


--- Quote from: spystyle on December 11, 2006, 06:08:40 pm ---A guy tries to share some information and he has to put up with all this? What a drag! You are relentless!

It is so obvious that you are trying to discourage people from building things that you sell.

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I think he is just warning people might be disappointed by the result you get from building your own spinner. To be honest I would agree with that. A spinner with a tooth count of 40 will only be usable for a few games at best.

The spinners that are sold by GGG and Ultimarc (and probably others) are far superior to anything you could build yourself.

There is a difference from discouraging people from building stuff themselves altogether and pointing out that some parts of a cabinet are better bought.

For instance, you could start molding your own pushbuttons and creating your own switches from aluminum foil or something. On the other hand just buying a few pushbuttons with switches (micro or leaf) will give you a much better endresult and save loads of time. I doubt many people would consider making their own buttons.

Of course spinners are very expensive so it makes more sense to build one of those yourself and of course you will have some fun with it. On the other hand if people are seriously interested in spinner games it makes sense to warn them ahead that it will cost them a lot of time while the result might not have been worth all the effort.

With regards to the BYO name joke, I think the site has been more about "Build Your Own Arcade Cabinet" than about building the controls for years now.

spystyle:

Well, the bottom line is -

This spinner cost $10 and takes 2 hours to build. It plays Tempest just fine (I just got done playing a round). Does it compare to a $70 commercial spinner? I would imagine not! But I don't have a commercial spinner to compare it to.

Naturally, whenever you can - buy the very best.

But if you can't afford that - or maybe you're like me and would rather spoil your child with toys than yourself - here is a spinner that costs $10 and works fine.

It's better than no spinner at all.

Happy gaming,
Craig

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