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I have finally started my cabinet!!! (Now With Pictures! 13-APR-2008)
DaOld Man:
--- Quote from: Jdurg on December 10, 2007, 09:48:35 am ---... But this is something I've been planning for a while, just needed to do a few things such as buy a house so I'd have a place to put it. ....
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I cant think of a better reason to buy a house..
;D
leapinlew:
--- Quote from: Jdurg on December 10, 2007, 02:42:12 pm ---Okay, below is an out of scale, quickly thrown together mock-up of the control panel. Just imagine the light blue lightning bolts as purple/blue lightning with a nice haze effect around it. That would be what I'm looking for. I'm going to need to download some software to make sure I have it scaled properly, but any comments would be welcomed.
Once I get the proper scale, then I'll have a better idea on how everything fits. Right now, I think I have the buttons quite a bit too small in relation to everything else.
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You'll want a coin button for both players. Also - you have a lot of buttons... I would get rid of some of the buttons so you only need an ipac2 and even if your plan is to double up the buttons you may want to consider less buttons. You can easily remap the mouse buttons and share buttons.
You don't want other people getting to the menus so I would hide the service buttons. Once you have everything setup - your rarely in the menus again.
Jdurg:
--- Quote from: leapinlew on December 11, 2007, 07:42:21 am ---
--- Quote from: Jdurg on December 10, 2007, 02:42:12 pm ---Okay, below is an out of scale, quickly thrown together mock-up of the control panel. Just imagine the light blue lightning bolts as purple/blue lightning with a nice haze effect around it. That would be what I'm looking for. I'm going to need to download some software to make sure I have it scaled properly, but any comments would be welcomed.
Once I get the proper scale, then I'll have a better idea on how everything fits. Right now, I think I have the buttons quite a bit too small in relation to everything else.
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You'll want a coin button for both players. Also - you have a lot of buttons... I would get rid of some of the buttons so you only need an ipac2 and even if your plan is to double up the buttons you may want to consider less buttons. You can easily remap the mouse buttons and share buttons.
You don't want other people getting to the menus so I would hide the service buttons. Once you have everything setup - your rarely in the menus again.
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Good point, but I plan on hooking up the coin door to have that be the coin input. I think it really ruins the whole aspect of having an arcade cabinet if you "insert coins" by tapping a button. The only button I would keep would be the service coin button.
For the other buttons I've included, there are some reasons;
Esc - To exit the game
Service Mode - A lot of games I play I tend to meddle around with the service mode quite a bit. I may, however, move this button off of the control panel and put it someplace else.
Dip Switches - I think, like the service mode, I might move this button elsewhere for easy access to the Dip Switches.
Cheat Menu - I love to cheat. :D
Service Coins - For when I just don't feel like putting coins in the coin slots, or don't have any handy.
Pause - Just in case I need to pause the game while playing
So some of these i'll wind up moving off of the panel. For the 4-way joystick and the spinner, I honestly don't know how many buttons I'll need for those. I can probably get by with two each. I will need to look and see how many buttons games that use those controls actually use.
Jdurg:
Woohoo! The order from Happ Controls came in today. Took less than a week! I've been sitting here watching TV and just pressing the buttons because it feels so good. The only thing I wonder is if I should have gotten the actual control buttons to be the same style as the player one and two buttons, but when I laid everything out on my carpet in the living room I realized that I like the very slight differences in style.
Sadly, the weather has decided to ruin my ability to work on the actual cab. We're currently getting HAMMERED with snow out there. I spent about 45 minutes clearing the snow out with my snowblower, and by the time I had finished I couldn't even tell that I had started. :(
Anyway, I've actually gone and bought some MDF and all I can say is "Holy Cow this stuff is HEAVY!" No matter how many times you hear someone say it's heavy, you never realize it until you actually lift it up yourself.
My buddy and I decided to build the cabinet in two parts with the base and the monitor/control panel area being built separately. We'll secure the top to the bottom with some pretty big bolts and solid 2x4's, but by making it separately it will be easier to move to my place. Also, the artwork I'll use will wind up covering the seam so that's not a problem at all. I just can't wait to get started. Now that I have the buttons and joysticks in my hand I want to play!
Stobe:
--- Quote from: Jdurg on December 13, 2007, 01:34:14 pm ---I just can't wait to get started. Now that I have the buttons and joysticks in my hand I want to play!
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Keep that motivation going! Also, set deadlines for yourself. That's the ONLY way I can finish anything. :)
Good luck!
-Stobe
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