Hello all, new to the forums, great info here. I bought a stand up Star Wars machine back in 1989 for $250 and somewhere along the line the monitor died, sound kept on going. It was awesome for quite a while though. I believe it was the flyback transformer (so I'm told). Anyway, as I love the side art and wanted this for more than just Star Wars, I gutted it to prep it for an emulator gaming system. What I wanted to know is if anyone has figured out or documented how to use the yolk from a star wars machine and actually use it as a working yolk in the MAME rom of star wars.
So far I have fitted in a 21 inch CRT nicely. I plan to use the existing speakers in the cab, I am looking into a mini amplifier to control the volume externally from the pc to the speakers. Ordered a smart strip to control all the power from the pc on/off. Trying to determine if I should go with Mala or Maximum Arcade, UncleT has an amazing document I've been reading on MALA setup (nice work).
Any other joystick makers out there beside x-arcade and Northcoast? I'm temped to build my own, but I'm not sure what I'd be getting into there yet.
I'll be listing all the parts in the Buy/Sell/Trade section eventually. Hopefully they will be useful to some members.
I'll have some pics shortly as well.
-gk