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Author Topic: New Here - First Build questions (what else is new?)  (Read 1405 times)

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New Here - First Build questions (what else is new?)
« on: October 05, 2010, 10:16:37 pm »
Hey all!  First post here (I apologize if I ask too many questions).  I am currently in the planning stages of building a cocktail cabinet.  I'm a very DIY kind of guy, so I decided to torture myself with actually building a cocktail cabinet from scratch rather than buy a kit.  Since it is my first one, I decided to base my plans off of the pacman cabinet from mikesarcade.com.  I originally was planning on building a head-to-head style, but I feel like I'm going to be missing out on a lot of horizontal games so I would like to add a 3rd control panel for 2 player side-by-side.  I am not too interested in too many games made after 1992, so I'm not too worried about the CPU requirements.  If I am to make a 3rd control panel, I would assume I should just take the dimensions for a head to head cp and make it bigger?  I'm pretty daft when it comes to woodworking (thats what friends are for :D).  Also, I am a huge centipede fan, and I can't remember if that particular game was horizontal or vertical.  So that brings me to the question of, where the hell should I put my trackball?  The only question I have about the monitor is that I want a CRT arcade monitor, but they seem to be hard to find.  I know multitechgames.com sells 19" CGA replacement monitors for 165, but I know nothing about that company.  Any help would be appreciated.

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Re: New Here - First Build questions (what else is new?)
« Reply #1 on: October 05, 2010, 10:29:35 pm »
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Re: New Here - First Build questions (what else is new?)
« Reply #2 on: October 06, 2010, 03:55:11 pm »
MAWS is a good source to find out details about specific games.  For instance, it says that Centiped is vertical:

http://maws.mameworld.info/maws/romset/centiped

MAWS: http://maws.mameworld.info/maws/