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--- Quote from: RandyT on March 13, 2007, 10:30:53 am --- --- Quote ---#10. Using various "hacks" when they just are not needed anymore. This is not 1998 anymore. <snip> --- End quote --- I should probably abstain on commenting on this one, as it won't be seen as anything other than a veiled attempts to drum up business, but for the most part, this is true. Keyboard hacks = bad and anyone will have a very difficult time convincing me otherwise. However, a properly done gamepad hack can be ok. The real issue is that several things need to be in place for it to be done well and that doesn't always (often?) happen. One needs a very good gamepad to start with, as they are definitely not all created equal. Knowing which is which is going to be found by trial and error, and by the time you know you have a good one, you might as well have saved yourself the time and frustration and just bought the dedicated part. Then, the soldering skills come into play. Some gamepads are simple to solder to and some are nightmares. And if one has never (or rarely) soldered before attempting this, it's probably not going to be pretty, even on the simple ones. But I can see the value of someone wanting to use a console in their arcade system for certain games. Personally, I think there are plenty of games for the cab in the PC realm, but if you really need to play Virtua Tekken Apha Tag Fighter Deluxe Tournament Edition on your cabinet, there are few other options. :) RandyT --- End quote --- Couldn't agree more with this. I've done a few keyboard hacks (more to see if I could do it than for anything else). First off, it looked ugly even though I did a nice clean job. There's the potential for key ghosting/locking because the keys are not discrete like most encoders. I ended up spending almost as much money as an decent encoder would have cost not to mention at least 4 times that amount in labor. I curse myself for having challenged me. |
| ahofle:
On the monitor issue, I think you can go too far in the other direction too. IMO a gigantic 29" monitor 6 inches from your face playing Robotron is just silly. You shouldn't have to turn your head to see what's shooting at you. :laugh2: |
| DrewKaree:
--- Quote from: btp2k2 on March 13, 2007, 11:53:08 am --- Also, someone mentioned if it would be really be a cheap cabinet considering the cost of console, monitor, etc....I already have the console and a 27 inch TV that looks stunning. I am also replacing the controls on my main cabinet with new sticks and buttons, so I am using the controls that are coming off the main cab for this project. So in reality, all I have to pay for is the material to build the sucker. --- End quote --- This always amuses me. "Well, I've already got all the parts lying around or will scavenge them from other games, so they're "free" and I'll end up with a cheap cab". I'd like to say that justifying it that way actually MAKES it "cheap", but you're buying new controls for another project, so you're spending money right, or are those "free" as well? You spent money on the controls. You spent money on the console. You spent money on the TV that goes inside of the cab. So in ACTUAL reality, you've simply paid for those things already, and still have to shell out money for the rest of what you plan to wrap around that stuff. It's still anything but cheap, unless you ACTUALLY were GIVEN (meaning you haven't at some point shelled out a dime) those items. And sure, everyone's heard of casters. The problem is that not everyone has their cab in the garage where they can roll it out to their automatic liftgate truck. If you don't have your cab out in the garage, I sure hope you have better luck than 99% of people who are moving things, since even with casters, you'll have to navigate the door threshholds while moving this by yourself, meaning there's a possibility (or more likely, a probability) that you'll be beating a wall or door frame or cab or all eleventy other things as you "roll that sucker up to your F150". As for playing streetfighter on a cab, I believe there's many who would want to play it while grasping authentic arcade controls - just not a console version, since the odds are that they first came across the game while in the arcade, not playing it on a console at his buddy's house. There's also a number who WOULD like to play the console version. Just not the 100% majority you're hoping there is. And....."thought so"? ::) You're gonna drop that as if there couldn't possibly be questions with your "airtight" defense of your choice but just in case, you'll throw a pseudo-tough-guy retort on there to scare away responses? Please ::) <--see how that works? |
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--- Quote from: ahofle on March 13, 2007, 12:25:56 pm ---On the monitor issue, I think you can go too far in the other direction too. IMO a gigantic 29" monitor 6 inches from your face playing Robotron is just silly. You shouldn't have to turn your head to see what's shooting at you. :laugh2: --- End quote --- Yes, but a couple of feet away would look great. Enter the pedestal control panel. There can be arguments for many of the items brought up in the top 10 list and way beyond that. The important things to remember are 1) Are you happy with the end result. 2) Do you get to play the games you intended to play properly enough to say you enjoy it. Then everything else is secondary. |
| Numbski:
Those who asked, I think this is an "older than dirt" version of mame32 that includes the 4-player hacks. I need to archive that source so I can re-implement the hack in more current code. http://www.geocities.co.jp/SiliconValley-Cupertino/6499/ |
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