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| javeryh:
I think you should slow down and think about what you want. If you truely only want a VF2 cab then buying a working one is probably your cheapest option. Fozzy was right on with his price estimate. I'd also echo his sentiment that you will likely get bored with a dedicated machine. You can build a MAME cab and modify it to play other games with the flip of a switch. A lot of people put Dreamcasts inside for example. |
| SuperShadowRyan:
--- Quote from: javeryh on December 04, 2007, 08:10:01 pm ---I think you should slow down and think about what you want. If you truely only want a VF2 cab then buying a working one is probably your cheapest option. Fozzy was right on with his price estimate. I'd also echo his sentiment that you will likely get bored with a dedicated machine. You can build a MAME cab and modify it to play other games with the flip of a switch. A lot of people put Dreamcasts inside for example. --- End quote --- yes, but let me get my point accross. MAME CANNOT EMULATE VIRTUA FIGHTER 2. NOR DO I HAVE THE CORRECT MACHINERY TO DUMP IT. I can just buy PCB's and hook them up differently. I can stand it. |
| Jack Burton:
--- Quote from: SuperShadowRyan on December 04, 2007, 07:41:38 pm ---I think i have found my example of how it would look. http://www.arcadepinball.com/basement/mameham/index.htm The screen would stretch to the monitor's size, but that's all I would want to change. err... and minus the trackball and whatever that silver thing is. I only play games that use buttons. --- End quote --- This is something you can handle. I know you really want to build your dream VF2 cabinet first, but you need to do this to ensure that all your screw-ups (and you will screw something up) will be done on this relatively cheap cab. This is my recipe: 1. Find a gutted cabinet for under 100$. Don't worry about monitors or controls. 2. Find a saturn and a copy of Virtua Fighter 2. Should cost more than 50$. 3. Buy some cheap X-arcade joysticks and buttons. 4. Find a 19" television. 5. Hack some saturn controllers for your controls. You can alternatively ask someone to do this for you in the Buy/Sell/Trade forum. Put the stuff in the cab. Voila, your first cab. IF you insist on building your own, then I recommend MDF board and lots of time. This is not something that someone who has little knowledge of woodworking and construction can do in a day, or even a week probably, and that is if they are following designs. |
| Jack Burton:
I'd also like to add that Virtua Fighter 2 was released for the PS2 in Japan as part of the Sega Ages collection. You would need to mod a ps2 to play this in your cab, but it would also mean that you could play Virtua Fighter 4 and hell of a lot of really awesome PS2 arcade ports. And there is a version of VF2 for PC that is apparently even better than the PS2 version. |
| Fozzy The Bear:
I'll echo what MegaUltraSuper said there..... I think he's giving you a good route to go down. Secondly! Take note of what I said earlier. The very first thing you should do is to buy Saint's Book "Project Arcade" and read read read you can get it from Amazon. Thirdly.... if it's just that you want to play the arcade version of that game, you could use a "Supergun" and not build a cabinet at all. That way you could connect the actual arcade board directly to an ordinary TV set and use some console controlers. Saint's Book explains what a "Supergun" is.... GO BUY THAT BOOK FIRST!! I repeat again! GO BUY SAINT's BOOK!! "PROJECT ARCADE" and read it! it'll give you a far better idea of what you are doing and lots of inspiration. It'll answer a lot of the questions you are asking. ALSO!! Follow this link! and again Read Read Read: http://wiki.arcadecontrols.com/ Best Regards, Julian (Fozzy The Bear) |
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