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Custom Galaga Cabinet for my father
TalkingBull:
I am planning on building a Galaga mini-bartop for my Pop (It's his favorite game). Instead of going the way of the PCB, I am going to do this as a MAME Cab for Vertical only games. I have a question from anyone and everyone before I get started since it impacts the CP design. Can anyone think of any Vertical games that require more than two player buttons? I was thinking of only one and then I remembered 194X and some of those have the super bombs as well as the normal fire button... other than that, should I incorporate a third button to be safe? Also, does anyone have or know where I can get a download of Vertical only games? I don't want to have to pick through my .128 files in excess of 7K to locate 7-800 games.
As for the cab, I will begin working on it possibly this evening and hope to have it finished soon. I will post pix as I go through it.
javeryh:
Punch-Out!! and Gun.Smoke.
Check maws - a quick search says that there are 243 vertical games that use 3 buttons. Obviously there are are a ton of repeats in the list.
leapinlew:
Since it's for your Dad, I would make it look as much like a Galaga with 1 fire button. It will be able to play about 40 games very well.
It'll be easy to use with no confusion. This is what I do. In my profile you can see the mini-galaga I built, to give you some ideas.
javeryh:
--- Quote from: leapinlew on November 06, 2008, 09:20:52 am ---Since it's for your Dad, I would make it look as much like a Galaga with 1 fire button. It will be able to play about 40 games very well.
It'll be easy to use with no confusion. This is what I do. In my profile you can see the mini-galaga I built, to give you some ideas.
--- End quote ---
I agree 100%. The less confusion the better. I don't know what kind of gamer your dad is but I don't think he will be missing out on much. One button and a U360 can play Pac-man, Donkey Kong, Frogger, Q*bert and most of the "classics" just fine.
TalkingBull:
I think you are right... one button then. That would be easiest and I want to make it look as much like a Galaga cab as I can. Where should I get the sideart? I have a custom marquee I am making which will be pretty cool but I need to do the sideart and cpo. I usually get my stuff from http://www.mamemarquees.com but they don't have any for some reason.
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