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SteveJ34:
--- Quote from: SoundDoc on March 18, 2005, 05:28:04 pm ---Just another idea on the route to contruction, I built my own for my cab about 3 months ago, a real nice addition.
Instead of going with the pvc pipe thing though, I stopped off at a local bike shop and picked up 4 motorcycle press on handlegrips.
That, and 4 standard arcade PB's, (the ones where the cherry switch sits vertically though) and a little whittling, and I've got some fairly comfortable buzzers.
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I thought this was a great idea and picked up some "chopper bicycle" hand grips this weekend from Walmart witha"cool flame motif" built into the grips.
Thanks for tossing this out there as a different handbuzzer approach.
A 3/4" or 7/8" diameter pushbutton with vertical microswitch would be ideal but not sure if such an animal exists.
Otherwise, I'll probably just use a pushbutton similar to what sasquatch used in his original design fashioned onto one end.
chrisindfw:
I am building a cabinet with changable panels. I made one panel just for YDKJ... I took one of those "Indestructable" keyboards, the thin rubber ones, and added it to my panel along with three happ large push buttons... These things look like the buttons from Press-Your-Luck... And added some screw, answer buttons.
Works like a charm. Nobody fighting over a keyboard and the large buttons adds to the game show like experience.
Pictures coming soon
SteveJ34:
I picked up YDKJ Vol 1,2,3 and The Ride from an Ebay auction. This showed up over the weekend.
I had a couple of intermiitent crashes while playing Vol 1 on a box which is running Win2k.
The game ran fine to a point and then the box blue screened.
Any tricks of the trade or suggestions for how to make this more stable under Win2k?
(I'm using 98SE on my mame cab but was trying to set this up on a small shuttle box running 2k which will connect to big screen TV).
chrisindfw:
Make sure the graphics driver is up to date.
Also, make sure you are running at either 800x600 or 640x480 for YDKJ..
Sasquatch!:
Hey, using bike handgrips sounds like a cool idea. Please let me know how it works! :)