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Hotrod Se and that ugly purple
Disturbed013:
wow, there's a "she" in here! mega cool-points for her! :applaud:
BobA:
--- Quote from: Cakemeister on August 22, 2007, 08:06:25 pm ---Personally, I love the HotRod. I have two.
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Please break out a ruler and help out a female BYOACer.
Button to Button and Joy to Button measurements.
gurnie:
--- Quote from: Malenko on August 22, 2007, 02:40:44 pm ---
--- Quote from: gurnie on August 22, 2007, 12:47:54 pm ---you mean she ;)
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My sincerest apologies! When I recut a new CPO for my hotrod I just clamped the 2 pieces of wood together and drilled using a spade bit. You could lay the hotrod over the new CP and trace the holes then drill. I honestly have no clue of the actual measurements and I cant seem to find the thread that listed the capcom specifications (all I can find is the Mortal Kombat specs)
The way I did it worked out pretty well.
wish I could be of more help ma'am
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I like what you did (i'd change the design to suite my personal taste, but i like yours).
I can easily take a sheet of paper and just trace, i just figured that might not allow the correct measurements to be made. I mean it's be easy to just have a basic traced shape that goes around the buttons but I'm not sure if I want to go with that style.
Let me do a search for 6 button templates, i figured hotrod tried to do something "unique" (aka half-thought out) and therefore didn't apply the traditional button layout
On a positive note:
Dad came over yesterday, and after having many beers, ordering pizza, a lot of cursing and problem solving we completed the following:
-the coin door was placed in and wired
-the control was re-wired and set-up so all i have to do is drill it in when I am ready to do so
- Ultimarc's 4 to 8 way stick was fitted into the 1player hotrod spot (and may I say that was a difficult task considering the happ's controls and ultimarc's DON'T have the same panel plate measurements
So big triumphant moment... dad's got the quarter and he puts it in the coin slot... no magical "ka-ching" noise comes from the machine.
We tried it a few more times... start pressing buttons.
Long story short, i ordered the i-pac VE chip, unknowing that several years ago i bought the I-pac2 version. So I had the wrong :censored: chip for the board :-\ (i ordered this part when on vacation.) See i figured since I got the i-pac when I was poor and in college, i went the cheap-butt route. Turns out i actually muscled out the extra $20 to get the better version.
So i've ordered the new chip. The bezel has not been cut yet. I plan to go to home depot and get some paint to touch up the solar fox cabinet.
I have several beer guzzling COD clan members coming to my house next friday. I haven't touched this project in over 2 years until we (boyfriend and I) decided to throw this party. I figured it would be fun to play with between rounds of speed quarters.
Malenko:
As far as I know/can tell the street fighter portion of the layout is dead on to the capcom machines I've run across, and I haven't played nearly enough Neo Geo machines to tell how accurate the neogeo button is, but it "feels right" when playing KOF98.
I gave up trying to design a CPO that had an area that separated the background from the controller area, so I just made a nice graphic that lent well to buttons and sticks poking out of it. The Ou (beyond Human) symbol is from Akuma (its not a Ten, that means heaven) and I also have it tatted on my neck.
Make sure you posted up some pix when you're all done.