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Fozzy The Bear:

--- Quote from: StuDaBaker on February 05, 2008, 12:25:20 pm ---Thanks for the advice on the Keywiz and the trackball. I am definately going to research that a little more.

Also I'll look at the 360's if I can find some way to cut some of the other expenses, deciding to build my own cabinet has already put me over budget! 8)

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Ahhh! BUT! the good thing is that you can take your time...... You don't have to buy everything now. Most cabinets that are built on here are built over a period of a year or more, sometimes even longer than that. There are exceptions where people have thrown a cabinet together in a month, but that's a project that either requires instant large sums of cash or a want it now attitude and large sums of cash....

You'll get much better deals on your parts if take your time and have a patience with it. You will occasionally come across a good deal on e-bay or somebody on here will be offering some parts they don't need and you'll be able to build it within almost any budget.

The rule of thumb... is If you're prepared to wait, you can beg, borrow, steal (well maybee not the last one) although some cheap parts deals are a steal in those terms.  You'd be amazed at the stuff people chuck out.

Best Regards,
Julian (Fozzy The Bear)
StuDaBaker:
Yeah, I've pretty much decided that I am going to build a prototype control panel, starting with at least 1p controls (2 - 8 ways, 7 player buttons, 1p start, coin, 1 - 4 way joy and maybe a trackball) and get that working with mame before I get crazy and buy up a bunch of stuff that's going to sit around while I figure stuff out. Plus, it'd be easier on the checkbook, as you said.
DeLuSioNal29:
I built a control panel with dual joysticks.  Two joys for player 1 and two joys for player 2.  Assuming that you want to have 7 buttons per player, you will definitely need an i-pac4 to do this which supports 4 players.  The joystick on the right of player 1 would be using the 3rd player inputs and the joystick on the right of the player 2 would be using the 4th player inputs.  That's how I have mine wired.

However, you may be able to get away with using the ipac2 if you use only 4 buttons per player.

Here's a pic of my control panel I recently finished.  Although it's a quad panel, you can see the dual joysticks on it.

Read more here:
http://forum.arcadecontrols.com/index.php?topic=74378.0

DeLuSioNal29:

--- Quote from: protokatie on February 04, 2008, 07:57:04 pm ---
--- Quote ---Not sure about the 4 way trigger though, yet.
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Are you sure you need a dedicated 4-way? Many of the 8-way's allow you to turn them into 4 ways with little effort. Also, from the franken panels I have seen, added 4 ways are either placed inconveniently or in the way of the more oft used 8-ways...

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I used a Super for my 4 way and then purchased a 4 way restictor from GGG:
http://groovygamegear.com/webstore/index.php?main_page=product_info&cPath=71&products_id=310

It works great!

~ D
pcb:

--- Quote from: DeLuSioNal29 on February 06, 2008, 06:40:04 pm ---However, you may be able to get away with using the ipac2 if you use only 4 buttons per player.

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You don't need to make all the controls have a different input.  You'll never use 6 or 7 buttons per player and 2 joysticks per player at the same time.  You can use the last 4 button inputs for each player to double as the 2nd joystick per player without any trouble.  An Ipac2 or I-pac VE is plenty.
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