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--- Quote from: spittinfly on November 19, 2005, 02:42:43 am ---I know she loves donkey kong and pac man.  She would also probably love me forever if it had golden tee.  Eventually I would probably want the Tekken and Soul Caliber games but for starters the older ones would be best.

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To really get a good experience out of Golden Tee, you need a trackball. A mouse doesn't cut it.

Flint_Cheeseman:

Hey dunno how if at all my post will help but im doing it anyway. I am working on my first cab myself. As for the cabinet itself, depending on what kind of cabinet you want to make, the internet is abundant with various free patterns gleaning them is the tricky part.

I had the fortune of getting a dual head cabinet from a guy who repairs them for free so i didn't have to do much cutting. as for cost of equipment, I just decided to use a regular old computer and an emulator. The interface for buttons and sticks was just a three dollar keyboard. I'll post a link to my page with some explanation and pictures though im having trouble with my router so some times the port 80 forward doesnt seem to work. http://flint.homelinux.net/neopc

Im currently drawing up plans for a cocktail table that will probably use the extra sticks from my cabinet. By the way it was a four player nintendo cab without the board or monitors. Basically what i got was a beat up old shell with sticks, some buttons and a few dusty quarters inside. It's a work in progress but as it stands i can play most neo geo and NES games on it. Due to low capacity hard drive I have installed a wireless card so the computer can pull roms from another network resource. Take a look if you're interested.

spittinfly:

I do have a trackball mouse so as I understand it, that will work.

spittinfly:

As a side question... does anybody on this site make controllers for their PS or XBOX.  I saw a thing on MTV last night about "Professional" gamers.  So I kinda got a bug about making one after this is done.

sliddick:

I ran across this guys site a while back. I was always impressed with the quality of his controller.

http://www.leafstation.com/console2.html

(this will link into a frame on his site. www.leafstation.com will take you to his homepage)

Another builder whose work I respect is Knievel. He's built some really sweet cabinets, and also sells control panels. I don't know if he specifically makes them for consoles, but Ultimarc sells an add-on to their I-Pac which will in turn make controls work for either XBox or Playstation. For a couple of extra bucks, you can have the best of both worlds. Here's a link to Knievel's site.

http://www.freewebs.com/knievel/

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