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| mallclerks:
Hello All! As ya can see I am new here, so let me give a little bit of background. My real name is Stan, I am 20 years old, Live in good ol Illinois. I currently own a Final Fight cabinet that I bought when I was 15. Last year I finally got around to gutting it out, cleaning the entire cab, putting it back together, some new paint/new sideart, and it looks fairly nice now! Since then I have been interested in building my own cabinet (I understand the addiction some of you obviously have as I have yet to build a cab and am already getting it :D ) So with that I have spent the past few weeks reading up plenty, reading tons on this site, forums, along with plenty of links. I have gotten a fairly good idea of all the basics, but still having some trouble with some of the more advanced stuff which I am working on still. So I am hoping a few people could help me with some of these questions :) At first I was thinking about going with the Ipac2 since it would handle all my basic needs, but I would need to have an Opti-pac as well for the track ball. Is this the best route to go, or is going with the Mini-pack the best route to take? Question 1: I would like to have the following configuration, since it seems to be common and the best configuration to have 1st player button coin 1 button 6 buttons for player 1 Joystick player 1 2nd player button coin button 2 6 buttons for player 2 Joystick player 2 Trackball Joystick 3 2 buttons for joystick 3 That adds up to 30 inputs, but from how I *think* I understood it is that you can wire joystick 3 to joystick 1, so that you save 4 inputs , hence it truly would only be 26 inputs used up. Am I correct in this understanding? Question 2 For the Trackball, I would need to buy the following to get it all to work correctly I believe, am I correct in thinking this?: Opti-PAC Interface Trackball 2 1/4in With Opti-PAC Cable Trackball Mounting Plate Question 3 Is the $19 Wiring kit from Ultimarc have all the wiring I would need for the arcade controls? Would I need more, or does it come with more then enough? Thats about it for now. I am sorry if this is all posted somewhere already, if so please give me a link if ya know it. I have tried to make my own 'bookmark list' of everything, along with reading as much as possible, and I think I am begining to have an information overload. I am hoping to get all my parts ordered in the next few days assuming I can decide on everything I want, since I really wanna get started on this thing :D |
| leapinlew:
--- Quote from: mallclerks on April 09, 2007, 11:07:33 pm ---Hello All! As ya can see I am new here, so let me give a little bit of background. My real name is Stan, I am 20 years old, Live in good ol Illinois. I currently own a Final Fight cabinet that I bought when I was 15. Last year I finally got around to gutting it out, cleaning the entire cab, putting it back together, some new paint/new sideart, and it looks fairly nice now! Since then I have been interested in building my own cabinet (I understand the addiction some of you obviously have as I have yet to build a cab and am already getting it :D ) So with that I have spent the past few weeks reading up plenty, reading tons on this site, forums, along with plenty of links. I have gotten a fairly good idea of all the basics, but still having some trouble with some of the more advanced stuff which I am working on still. So I am hoping a few people could help me with some of these questions :) At first I was thinking about going with the Ipac2 since it would handle all my basic needs, but I would need to have an Opti-pac as well for the track ball. Is this the best route to go, or is going with the Mini-pack the best route to take? Question 1: I would like to have the following configuration, since it seems to be common and the best configuration to have 1st player button coin 1 button 6 buttons for player 1 Joystick player 1 2nd player button coin button 2 6 buttons for player 2 Joystick player 2 Trackball Joystick 3 2 buttons for joystick 3 That adds up to 30 inputs, but from how I *think* I understood it is that you can wire joystick 3 to joystick 1, so that you save 4 inputs , hence it truly would only be 26 inputs used up. Am I correct in this understanding? Question 2 For the Trackball, I would need to buy the following to get it all to work correctly I believe, am I correct in thinking this?: Opti-PAC Interface Trackball 2 1/4in With Opti-PAC Cable Trackball Mounting Plate Question 3 Is the $19 Wiring kit from Ultimarc have all the wiring I would need for the arcade controls? Would I need more, or does it come with more then enough? Thats about it for now. I am sorry if this is all posted somewhere already, if so please give me a link if ya know it. I have tried to make my own 'bookmark list' of everything, along with reading as much as possible, and I think I am begining to have an information overload. I am hoping to get all my parts ordered in the next few days assuming I can decide on everything I want, since I really wanna get started on this thing :D --- End quote --- Is this the final fight cab with the rounded marquee that uses standard incandescent lights? I believe Frizzle has one of those setup in his horizontal cab - I'll see if I can find it. As for the trackball, I bought one that was a USB interface and plugged it directly into the computer. |
| leapinlew:
Here it is: http://forum.arcadecontrols.com/index.php?topic=63423.msg632794#msg632794 Where in Illinois are you? |
| Chris G:
Building on what lew said, a word of caution from my experience... figure out which trackball you want before deciding on the interface. I bought a mini-pac, but later decided to buy a USB trackball... rather poor planning. :cheers: Chris |
| shardian:
I'm assuming your joystick 3 is a dedicated 4-way joystick - in that case, you can wire it to the same inputs as joystick 1. Make sure you get a true dedicated 4-way for that stick, such as a Ms. Pac reunion stick. A super in 4-way mode is not a real 4-way. |
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