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MAME MK3/MK2 style PC/X360 cabinet
tcleary:
alright, got my lexan pieces, one of them had a piece missing, but the mk4 looks great. I hacked up the cabinet some more to install some pc on/off and reset buttons just inside the coin door. I also got a few remote switches from big lots. one will turn on my monitor and the other will turn on a power strip to power everything else. this is pretty cool because I have all 4 power switches (power strip, monitor, pc, sound) all in the same area.
tcleary:
after doing some thinking, I'm going with my original idea of junking up 2 street fighter 4 TE sticks to make a panel out of it, I took one apart tonight and it looks like it will be a pretty easy project really and I think it will turn out pretty cool. it turns out it isn't much more expensive than buying the parts individually.
$150 sf4 stick, by itself ready for MAME and x360 plug and play
sanwa joystick and buttons from lizard dick.com - $60
x360 joystick hack service (i don't want to soder the ---steaming pile of meadow muffin--- $40 + sacrifice an x360 controller (around $30)
so just those things add up to $130, ---fudgesicle--- it, hack the sf4 stick it is. plus I kind of like the art on the sf4 sticks anyway. I plan on painting the rest of the panel black.
here's what I need to do for this project
get a nice piece of wood the same size as a MK CP top
route out a small area to fit the sf4 red cp bezel. cut a nice big hole to fit the buttons and joystick. do the same thing for player 2 (only have one stick at the moment so I just want to get all the prep done so when I get a 2nd I can just pop the ---smurfette--- in)
drill some extra holes for the headset jack, start button, and back button. cut a t-molding groove on the front (no idea how to do this)
prime and paint the wood. fit bezel into place, fit metal sf4 cp into place. mount sf4 main pcb, button pcb, and tiny headset pcb to the under side of the cp. mount the usb cord plastic box to the underside of the CP. screw on some latches on the sides. wire up everything and hope it still works.
first picture is a proof of concept that two of these things will barely fit on a mk cp top, there is about 0 extra space, it was just meant to be I guess. 2nd pic is all the parts I have to deal with.
Gatsu:
while yes...it isn't that much more expensive to buy the TE sticks than it is to get all the parts individually...
Tournament Edition sticks are retarded-ass rare. I would have sold one on ebay for $250 and used that cash to buy all the parts I needed to build another panel from scratch.
So I gotta say boo to messin up the TE sticks...because I've been looking for 1 myself for a while now.
But overall I think the project is pretty kick ass. I like the swappable CP idea. I might do something similar in my next cab.
MrMojoZ:
--- Quote from: Gatsu on June 11, 2009, 01:34:46 pm ---while yes...it isn't that much more expensive to buy the TE sticks than it is to get all the parts individually...
--- End quote ---
Only if you have to pay someone to solder them. Otherwise $60ish for stick/buttons and $22 for a pad. Thats $82 vs $150. I know which way I'd go.
tcleary:
I don't think they are that rare anymore. I actually had a ps3 one that I ebayed and only banked (after fees, shipping, etc) around the same as it was to buy a new one retail. I got the x360 one from bestbuy.com. there's a thread on shourken forums where people let eachother know when they pop up somewhere for sale. I'm pretty sure with the demand they will get more out there. i just checked bestbuy.com and they have the ps3 ones available right now. and yeah I don't want to deal with sodering, it would be a headache for me and I'd probably screw it up, and like I said I like the art so it'll look cool without a CPO which would cost some money too. another advantage is if you did the controller hack thing it still wouldn't have some of the nice features on the TE stick like being able to switch the stick from the left analog, right analog, and digital stick, and it has turbo, which I don't care about. it will also be easy to mount on wood, sanwa buttons are more of a pain to mount, but since it is all on the metal plate it should be easy.
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