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daywane:
I use atomic

bar stools

as for cup holders, I lucked out. My friend crushes cars. he had a custom van he was going to crush. I bought the wooden cup holders (with lights)

I am thinking of even putting a car lighter in for my smoke's  8)

esc and pause should be plenty maybe coin  if needed
IgnoranceIsBliss:
Hold on - 4 coin and 4 start buttons, with only 2 actual sticks?

I'm using a KeyWiz keyboard encoder on my rig (I actually had an existing, dead arcade machine). The keywiz is cute because it does have a "Shazzam!" key, which is basically just a 'Shift' - in that it completely changes every button to another keypress.

So Shazzam+Quit Game is actually Shut Down. Shazzam+Player 1 is 'Tab', to edit the game config etc.

While it may be slightly nicer to have individual buttons for these things, it would also be UGLIER.

The KeyWiz has it's faults - the main two being that it doesn't store it's custom program in ROM and needs the Windows software if you want to use a custom setup (not an issue, since I use it's default setup which is rigged for MAME), and that you need to actually 'switch' from Keyboard to Controls, where some of it's competitors do that seamlessly...but the shift is valuable.

And while I hate to admit to using a commercial product, I use "Maximus Arcade" for my frontend, since although it's pretty limited in terms of customization and takes a little while to load, it's VERY pretty and comes pre-configured for a large number of emulators - it's almost a zero-effort frontend.

I personally don't use "Pause", but I do have the Shazam and 2-player buttons set to 'Save State' and 'Load State', so I can go back to that final boss battle in Marvel Vs Capcom and hopefully beat the guy this time :)
whoozwah:

--- Quote from: IgnoranceIsBliss on March 31, 2008, 08:32:12 pm ---And while I hate to admit to using a commercial product, I use "Maximus Arcade" for my frontend, since although it's pretty limited in terms of customization and takes a little while to load, it's VERY pretty and comes pre-configured for a large number of emulators - it's almost a zero-effort frontend.

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agreed. I use MA as well and I've been trying different things to minimize the time it takes to load. I only use 1 resolution for the frontend so I've taken all the other resolutions out through the skinning app that's provided. I've been tinkering with other things to make it boot faster as well.

As far as customization goes, I think it's fine. You can build your own skin from start to finish. Personally, I just took the default skin and modified it to suit the theme that I'm going after in my build (Aqua Teen Hunger Force). Here's a screen of it:



clicker:
Here's some cup holders that seem to be nice, fold-up out of the way when not needed.

http://www.jmsonline.net/DRINK-HOLDER-FOLD-UP.htm
gonzo90017:

--- Quote ---I would honestly LOVE it if someone released like a really well done multi-emulator setup for MameWah, but, I just don't have the time.
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