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councilface:


--- Quote from: Jdurg on December 16, 2007, 04:42:49 pm ---As I've mentioned countless times before, I have just started the construction of my first MAME cabinet.  (Got a friend to help me out, and just found out that my dad would love to help me as well).  I started out by getting the controls I needed from Happ controls and Mike's Arcade Parts.  (Mike's supplied the four-way joystick and Happ everything else so far.  I still need my spinner, trackball, and IPAC, however).

Anyway, I've put together a mock-up in Cardboard to see how the layout would work and how many buttons I can move to other places.  I'm REALLY happy I put this mock-up together because I realized that I planned on putting far more buttons than I needed to on my control panel.  Many of these will be elminated and/or moved to an admin panel hidden on the sides of the CP.

Anyway, one thing I've done is assembled one button with the microswitch and hooked up a mock-crimped disconnect to some 18-AWG wire I have.  The thing is, I can't stop pressing the button and feeling/hearing the click.

I've got this button next to me while also viewing the control panel and I keep thinking "God, I want this cabinet done right now".  Am I weird for doing this?  Did anybody else do anything crazy like this while preparing for their first cabinet build?  <click, click, click, click, ---gosh-darn--- I CAN'T STOP PRESSING THIS BUTTON!!!!!!!!!!!>  :D

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 Mate, my cab is in a very early pre build stage. My CP and PC are not in the cab at teh mo but my admin buttons are installed (Put them below the CP - out of the way of prying hands).
 But every time I go to my parents house and see my cab I say hello baby and press a few of the admin buttons to hear that click ;o)




























You are the only people that know this ;o(


stealth1290:

just out of curiosity are you obsessive compulsive? seems like a tick to me. (Dr. stealth is in the building  ;D  "and how does that make you feel")

eh, who am I kidding I used to do the same thing with pens in school... all my switches be leafs (I did that on purpose) but I'm sure if I had micro switches laying around I'd be clicking away!

Jdurg:

You know, I might be slightly OCD.  At work, every day I MUST play FreeCell, Hearts, Solitare and Spider Solitare and win every day.  For Solitare, it has to be a score of 6000 or greater.  So yeah, I may be OCD.   ;D

As for the microswitches, when I was growing up I remember the buttons and joysticks in the arcades making a "click" sound when I used them so I had to get the microswitches.  Most games were with the volume so loud you couldn't hear them, but I remember playing SF2 and hearing the "click-click-click-click" when I threw a Hadoken.  :D

WaRpEd:

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the men in  the white suits are on the way. :laugh2:

DaveMMR:


--- Quote from: Jdurg on December 16, 2007, 07:04:30 pm ---At work, every day I MUST play FreeCell, Hearts, Solitare and Spider Solitare and win every day.  For Solitare, it has to be a score of 6000 or greater.

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So how do you still have a job?   ;D

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