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| Turnarcades:
Not sure if this design would be great for making a 4-player panel. It would look very 'glued on', be out of proportion, probably overbalance the cabinet and be weord to play with 4 players. Although many 4-player cabs have a hefty slant on the monitor, having angled joysticks for players 3 and 4 and being so close to that small screen would cause disorientation. Ditch the idea unless you want to scratch-build a cabinet. |
| Jack Burton:
How thick is that fiberglass that you have your joysticks mounted in? Cause those style joysticks need to be mounted in at least 1/2", and better for 3/4 or 5/8" thick panels. If you don't then the joysticks are too tall. Also, the buttons should be closer together if you are going for a SF2 layout. I'm sorry if this is too critical, but this is the truth. You would never be able to play any Street Fighter game on that cabinet at anything approaching skillful without causing severe damage to your wrists. I think you should consider some option to make the CP much shallower before you do anything else. Also, now that I think of it, I think a steering wheel would sit very well on the current angle. Not too many people build dedicated driving MAME's. I know that I am always scrolling through my rom list and wish I had a steering wheel. |
| Chris2:
--- Quote from: severdhed on February 13, 2009, 03:42:14 pm ---since you have so many, you could always have two cabinets side by side, linked together. you'd only need 1 PC even..just wire up the second cabinet as players 3 and 4, and make sure the video card in your PC can support two monitors. have both monitors displaying the same image. then you'd have plenty of room for 4 players, and with two screens, it wouldnt be crowded --- End quote --- I like this idea. You can get 4 people on there and keep the cool shape of your case. Plus, I'm not sure if you could make Mame work for this, but you could set it up so that multi-monitor games display properly across the displays, which is something that you don't see very often in home-made cabinets. |
| slapaham:
As I'm intending to have 2 cabs for myself, I've been building them so they are easily swappable with whatever system I want to run MAME on (PC or MAME)... As I have a few PCs hanging about I think I may well build both cabs with this idea in mind... I agree with you Chris2 - it is a nice suggestion - one worth investigating! Jack Burton - I know I've bodged the one shown a bit but this was the first kind of cab I've ever built - since collecting the rest of them I've seen this as a 'practice' cab - we encountered a lot of problems with the shape of the inside of the cab (it is extremely tight!) and I hadn't been around these forums much when I was building it! The fibre glass isn't all that thick but the sticks don't look odd or feel uncomfortable at all - I'm pretty happy with how they are - and there isn't much I could do about this anyway without making it look like a dog's dinner... the fibre glass is also really stong so I have no concerns about stability either! I may consider replacing the sticks with something different - any suggestions for something better? Totally agree with the comment about the buttons - the buttons as they are, are admittedly a shambles - but with doing this I know how to ammend them next time. They aren't actually that uncomfortable and they are still easy to utilise but as you say they can definately be improved! The steering wheel idea has crossed my mind and I would like to do it (I have a very good Thrustmaster wheel which could be modified) but with all these other ideas buzzing around my head I'm going to have to prioritise - can't have all 10 cabs in my house! ;D I'll definately continue to consider possibilities about potential projects though so keep those ideas rolling in! As for the steepness - I know people keep saying about this - but I've just been tinkering with setting up my Xbox in the cab for a trial run (gotta say the built in speakers on the touchscreen monitors pack a real punch - first time I've ever tried them! :D) and the buttons and sticks are fine - not so great for tall people but that has more to do with its not a massively tall cab but on high stools they are perfectly comfortable and easy to use... okay, so its not quite a traditional look for a cab but these are based around traditional cabs - we were discussing it over lunch today and to build a flat panel would really ruin the cabs and I don't think it would improve it enough to warrant it. So far the plans are (ever think I should have posted this in project annoucements?) 2 player Xbox cab (which I have just tried and works amazingly well!) with players 3 and 4 having infa-red pads. And another that is a poweful PC-based cab - again 2 players with 3 and 4 having pads of some sort... possibility of a trackball on this one too... Then weighing up the options of how to make the 2 cabinets talk to each other so that it can be used as a dual screen system too! Sounds good to me and I don't see it being too difficult to achieve! :cheers: |
| severdhed:
put a PC in both cabinets, on the second cabinet use a KVM switch so that you can switch the controls and monitor between being a stand alone cabinet, or 3rd and 4th players on the PC in cabinet 1. or, do the xbox method, wireless controllers for the second cabinet, and just send the video output to both monitors. |
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