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A quick hello and a few questions regarding a bartop machine!
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Kremmit:

--- Quote from: Fozzy The Bear on March 14, 2007, 07:17:31 am ---
--- Quote from: horseboy on March 14, 2007, 06:09:32 am ---Get a Minipac from Ultimarc. He has them on BYOAC special right now for $26. It has a PS2 pass thru port so you can hook up a keyboard.
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The Keywiz also has a keyboard passthough on the full version..... and by the time you add up the shipping, it's still cheaper to get a Keywiz from Randy in the USA than it is to get a MiniPac from Andy in the UK. Especially if he's looking to buy joysticks and buttons and T-Molding and the other bits he'll need, at the same time.

Best Regards,
Julian (Fozzy The Bear)

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The free shipping is available to the UK as well, although only if you order the MiniPac by itself.
Aikon:
IN the end I thought sod it and brought a keywiz eco... Turns out the mobo I'm using does have USB :)
ark_ader:

--- Quote from: Fozzy The Bear on March 13, 2007, 10:16:04 pm ---Hi welcome to the forum.....

I'm in the UK too... and I can see you heading for some of the pitfalls that I failed to avoid the first time round.

1) Don't touch the X-arcade bundle with a very long barge pole.... The stuff in it isn't great.

2) Don't hack a game pad for your controls. That's entirely the wrong way to go. go to Groovy Game Gear and get yourself a Keywiz.

3) Sanwa and Happ sticks are a better chioce. (except the happs ultimate sticks, which are rubbish)

First thing you should do is head over to Groovy Game Gear.
http://www.groovygamegear.com
Have a browse round there.

Ultimark stuff is good, but for the UK his shipping is terrible... over priced because he insists on using UPS... No idea why he can't put the stuff in the Royal Mail like everybody else.

On a 466Mhz PC you're only going to be able to run the early 80's stuff in Mame. Even then, only if you use an earlier version of Mame. Seriously consider an upgrade. The real bottom end limit right now as far as I'm concerned has to be somewhere in excess of 1Ghz.

Best Regards,
Julian (Fozzy The Bear)



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Groovy Gamegear charges the same shipping $17.95 vs £8.

Don't get me wrong, your point is well made and the choice factor is much better than Ultimarc, but I find it is easier to return goods from a UK supplier than from a fellow American.  Something a New builder has to consider when buying parts in the UK.

The X Aracde option is not so bad if you use it for the other console formats.  To be honest I followed your recommendations to replace the microswitches to cherry microswitches in my X Arcade and you can immediately feel the difference.  Kudos Fozzy for that..


I am buying from Groovy Gamegear because of those Groovy Coin Door Buttons!  ;D
Aikon:
I ordered a lot of parts from www.groovygamegear.com in the end coz of Fozzy's recommendation. Hopefully I'll get them in a week or so and then the fun can begin! :D
Aikon:
Hopefully the parts I've ordered will arrive soon... I'm in the process of designing my bartop using google's sketchup (and learning to use it at the same time). As stated eariler I've ordered a Keywiz Eco 2 (no solder version) as well... Just wondered if anyone has any idea what pins on the eco match up to the ide cable. For example:

Pin 1 Pin 3 Pin 5
Pin 2 Pin 4 Pin 6 = Red wire on IDE cable then next one to the right?

Or do the pins layout as:

Pin 1 Pin 2 Pin 3 etc = Red wire on IDE cable then next one to the right?

Sorry for sounding like a noob (I am when it comes to this)! I've tried searching on this forum and also looking at the documents on the groovygamegear site. I've emailed Randy (I guess he's the dude who runs the site/shop) a few mins ago to see if he can help me and just wondered if any of you came across any more info out there on the interweb...

Maybe I'm just jumping too far ahead and all will be explained once I actually receive the goods!
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