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| ZProtoss:
Alright, to start off I'll be blunt, I'm a complete and utter newbie to building anything of the caliber that I've been reading about on the website. Honestly, the only thing I really want to make/have is a decent quality arcade joystick controller that'd work well for mame fighting games online. 8-10 buttons + 1 joystick. The only thing is, anything premade costs a fortune (and from what I've read isn't nearly as high quality as building it yourself), and the instructions for building something like this are fairly confusing to me. So I guess I'm asking for recommendations on what to do :) |
| ZProtoss:
Just reading older forum posts, I do have one more specific question. I was reading about this cards which would replace the need for breaking open an old keyboard/etc. Do these also eliminate the need for soldering? I don't think I'd have too much of a problem buying that + the controls then making a joystick case. My main issue would be doing soldering, since I don't have any tools to do it or any experience. |
| jakejake28:
with the ipac you do not need to solder, just attach a female quick disconnect to the microswitch on the buttons and joysticks, crimp a wire in it, and screw the other end into the ipac. it should not take more than 15 min to hook up a 1-joystick 8-button cab. limitation is only 8-buttons per player |
| ZProtoss:
Ah I see. I realized that a bit after my post just by doing searching. I know alot of people here build huge cabinets, 4 player systems/etc. I take it though something like an ipac or a keywiz would be fine for a 1 player arcade stick. In the end wouldn't it actually be cheaper (and higher quality), to buy the parts seperately and put it together? |
| ZProtoss:
What's personally scary to me by the way, I was considering buying an x-arcade stick until I came across this website and these forums via a google search. From what I've read it sounds like not only is something like the x-arcade overpriced, but has cheap/junky parts in it as well. Actually, before I found this website I had no clue there were such varying levels of quality in controllers :) |
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