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Howdy! Planning 1st cabinet. . .
protokatie:
OK.. RANDY T OF GGG! Is there any way you could get/make these things that had a real slot in them to take any coin that will fit and have a small switch positioned so the coin would activate that switch? I see what this does, you hit the coin return to "simulate" entering a coin, but is there a way to make something very similar that had a slot that was "coin accepting" and a switch that would trip if a coin/flat-head screwdriver/long fingernail was inserted?
I was going to make my "coin acceptor" out of a piece of red translucent plastic, with a slot (coin sized) cut into it, with a small happ or similar switch on the other side that the coin would hit when pushed past the plastic. Is there any way, Randy, that you could make a simple thing like this. I am sure it would sell well, and I would be willing to pay 20 bucks a pop for such a simple "coin acceptor" (IE 40 bucks for two)
...awaits to hear from the great Randy about the plausability of this idea...
wp34:
You can use the U360 as a mouse. The driver has a mouse-mode you can download to the joystick. I've played with it a little and it works quite well.
If you are going to have any friends over to play on your cab you might want to consider a trackball. There is a real WOW factor to be able to play Centipede, Marble Madness or Golden Tee with a trackball!
Zobeid:
--- Quote from: wp34 on February 09, 2008, 11:43:42 pm ---If you are going to have any friends over to play on your cab you might want to consider a trackball. There is a real WOW factor to be able to play Centipede, Marble Madness or Golden Tee with a trackball!
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I'll admit that not being able to play Missile Command, Marble Madness or Centipede/Millipede is a negative. But still. . . Those are three-and-a-half games out of hundreds. You have to draw the line somewhere, or else build a CP that looks like an aircraft carrier.
And what is this "Golden Tee" thing that people keep talking about? Some kind of dumb golf game?
Zobeid:
Against my better judgment. . . I'm starting to get ambitious ideas. I'm wondering if a swappable panel makes sense for me. Something like. . .
Panel 1 = U360 & a trackball
Panel 2 = 8-way firetop sticks & a spinner
Panel 1 would cover all my trackball games, analog stick games, 4-way stick games (including Q*Bert).
Panel 2 would cover dual-stick games, tank games, spinner games, Tron, Frontline. . .
BUT the whole idea of a swappable panel sort of works against the simplicity I was striving for when I started my planning.
protokatie:
--- Quote ---BUT the whole idea of a swappable panel sort of works against the simplicity I was striving for when I started my planning.
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Instead of swappable panels, why not have a fold up piece that has the trackball(s) on it. Someone here made one a few years ago, looked like a simple idea, and looked clean.
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Here are some pics I found of it: