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lettuce:
Grab a gutted Taito Egret 2 cab from a member over at the killercabs forum, complete with rotating monitor mech :notworthy:
This will be my 3rd arcade project, and with this one i want to keep things a bit more simplistic, ive done the cab with a frankenpanel, (http://forum.arcadecontrols.com/index.php?topic=53297.0) and while i love this cab its taking up alot of room, so have decided to scaling things down and keep things on the CP more simple. Im undecided at the moment to keep the original white colour or go for a different colour completely....maybe a sonic blue, whichever colour i go for im going to have to dismantle the cab and spray. The components im looking at using on this project are:
29" Pentranic MultiSynce Monitor -awaiting email back regarding prices Ordered, £270.25
Motherboard - Ordered,Gigabyte S775 Intel P35 ATX Audio Lan DDRII FSB133, £54.95
2.4Ghz or great Dual Core CPU - Ordered, Intel Core 2 Duo E7200 2.53GHz, £82.85
2 GB Ram - Ordered, Corsair Memory TWIN2X2048-6400C4 2x1GB 240-Pin DIMM XMS2-6400 CL4, £35.20
Harddisk - Ordered, Samsung Spinpoint 500GB 7200RPM 16MB SATA300, £44.87
ArcadeVGA2 PCI-E - Ordered, Not buying a ArcadeVGA2 card anymore!. Nvidia Geforce 7600GT 512MB PCI-E, £39.99
PSU - Ordered, OCZ Technology 500W STEALTHXSTREAM POWER SUPPLY, £36.91
DVD Drive - Ordered, LiteOn DVD-ROM 16x48x Internal SATA Black, £12.94
I-PAC - still to buy
LED-Wiz - still to buy
Windows XP
Running Mala FE
MAME
NullDC (Dreamcast Emulator)
I shall be making a new control panel, i dont want to butcher the Egret 2 plastic CP as theres not a large amount of these cabs in the UK. The new CP will be made out of MDF. I shall be looking at having 2 sticks, 6 maybe 7 buttons for 2 players only, and adding a spinner, thinking of not bothering with a trackball, as not too many games use a trackball and even less are any good (minus using it for lightgun games).
The first thing i need to do is draw around the Egret 2 CP on to a sheet of MDF. Now the first problem is getting a sheet of MDF the same thickness as the Egrets CP which is 1.5" thick, so what i had to do was draw 2 Egret CP on to a 3/4" thick sheet of MDF and then will have to stick them together thus making a CP template 1.5" thick!
I decided to make the 2nd CP template just a 'frame' template as i didnt fancy the idea of routing through 1.5 inches of MDF for the pushbuttons and sticks
I then glued and screwed the 2 MDF sheets together and added clamps for good measure
Afterwards i router to put a curved edge on the top of the CP
Donkey_Kong:
Nice job on the CP replica. Me rikey. What do you have planned for type of joy sticks?
lettuce:
Not 100% sure yet, but on my short list is:
Sanwa Ball Tops
Ultimarc Mag-stik Plus Ball Tops
Ultimarc J-Stick Ball Tops
I like the idea of the Ultimarc sticks as these can be turned from 4 to 8 way from the top of the CP, not sure how the Mag-stiks 'feel' though as they are not centered via a spring its a magnet.
I also orderd My Pentranic Monitor today, it cost £230 + VAT, which i was happy with as i got a quote for a Polo Star from Hantarex which was £450 odd and that was just for a 25" display!!
Ginsu Victim:
Spend the extra cash and get UltraStik 360s. You'll be glad you did.
lettuce:
Yeah i was thinking about them but not too sure how they would feel, do they feel like an old school arcade stick, i imagine them to feel like an analog stick rather than a arcade stick?
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