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JayTea:
http://www.licoricepizza.com/fantastic4.html

This has been done for about 4 months, but I have the pics to prove it. I will go into deeper explanations and provide a few more pics when I find the time, but this is a good cursory overview of my project.

it was built from scratch, made a trakcball mouse hack, and purchased "The Ultimate Set of Tools" in order to get it done. I also just MAME'd an old missle command cab that had been converted into Thunderjaws. Pics and descriptions of that one to come later. Please feel free to critique - or to be an innocent bystander.

kspiff:
Hm, 25 views and no replies.. OK, I'll compliment.. looks nice, and the marquee is.. well.. you are thefootballguy, I guess :P

CthulhuLuke:
Very clean looking finish, although the joysticks and buttons are a bit high I would imagine, unless its at a super angle. I really like the fact you used Perfect 360s in there, those joysticks are the best you can get! I hope you're treating them to plenty of fighting games. But the Vertical pushbuttons are definitely not a good choice for fighters, I built my first joystick with em, horizontals are 100 times nicer feeling, easier on your hands, and are a billion times easier to button mash with. That's a pretty killer computer you stuck in for MAME, I'm in desperate need of putting something similar to that into my cab, it's sad with its 300mhz pentium II..
Good Stuff
-Luke

PS: that's an electrician's nightmare in there, you used red for almost everything!! Imagine if you had accidently crossed something, it'd be a pain to try and figure things out.

tritonarcade:

--- Quote from: CthulhuLuke on June 20, 2003, 04:00:42 am ---But the Vertical pushbuttons are definitely not a good choice for fighters, I built my first joystick with em, horizontals are 100 times nicer feeling, easier on your hands, and are a billion times easier to button mash with.
--- End quote ---

Hmm... I'm going to have to disagree with you there. I know everyone on this forum favors the horiz. pushbutton over the vertical because the "slipping" mechanism of the latter could cause wear over extended periods. And I can agree with that premise though I think most of that sentiment is based on expectation and not experience.

On the matter of "feeling", however, I happen to favor the vertical pushbutton. The actual point of the click to me is slightly more solid and it releases a bit differently as well. All told, however, the differences between the two are negligible. In my opinion calling one button a billion/million times better than the other in any aspect is misleading for those that haven't tried both.

JayTea:
Yes, the controls are a bit high, but I am 6'3" and it works out to be a perfect fit. My wife on the other hand has to sit on a booster chair...nah just kidding. I also left them high in anticpiation of adding a steering wheel (which you can see on top of the computer) and possibly a spinner.

As for all red wires...well...It's the wire I had laying around at the time, plus it's not too difficult to trace if you tape, bunch, and label the different joysticks / buttons and the com's. I will admit that I kinda just left the I-Pac laying freely because I was in a rush to "test" the controls. Turns out I haven't stopped testing for about 4 months :)

The I like the vert pushbuttons. They sit a little higher than the horizontal ones I put in another cab I just finished, but both have their advantages. I used the horiz. ones in the recent cab because little kids are going to be playing it and aren't as brutal as I am with the buttons, especially track and field. Too me it's a preference. More resistance with the verts, less with horiz.

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