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SeverdHed's Donkey Kong project...OFFICIALLY DEAD
Jack Burton:
I too hate those Wico joysticks. I really do think you should hunt down a DK in the wild so you can have the experience of playing on an original or repro stick and see how you like it though.
javeryh:
Very very nice. I'm thinking I should have mounted everything in mine vertically too - mine is a mess and yours looks really neat inside. I did the EXACT same thing you did for the speakers - I mounted both left and right behind the cutout and there was plenty of room.
I also bought some "usb extenders" from hong kong off of eBay (they were under $1 each) and mounted them on the coin door so I could easily plug in a mouse and keyboard or transfer files from a usb stick without moving the cabinet away from the wall and taking off the back panel.
I need to get my wires under control though - the coin door wiring is weird - there is no room for the crimp-on connectors because the coin box is in the way.
Keep up the great work!
severdhed:
i almost mounted my PC on the bottom of the cabinet, but i figured since that shelf was there, i should use it. it worked out better than i expected.
thats weird about your coin doors, i had no problem with the crimp on conectors clearing the wooden box. (then again the tabs on the switches were already bent back when i got it).
i'll definitely try to play any DK cab i can find...i have only ever seen one in real life other than the one i own, and it did not have a nintendo stick in it. i read somewhere ( think it was on quarterarcade.com) that a DK joystick doesnt center itself...is that true? i can't imaging using a stick that you had to manually center..that would be like playing using a shifter or something.
Chicken McNobody:
--- Quote from: severdhed on September 08, 2009, 03:43:52 pm ---i almost mounted my PC on the bottom of the cabinet, but i figured since that shelf was there, i should use it. it worked out better than i expected.
thats weird about your coin doors, i had no problem with the crimp on conectors clearing the wooden box. (then again the tabs on the switches were already bent back when i got it).
i'll definitely try to play any DK cab i can find...i have only ever seen one in real life other than the one i own, and it did not have a nintendo stick in it. i read somewhere ( think it was on quarterarcade.com) that a DK joystick doesnt center itself...is that true? i can't imaging using a stick that you had to manually center..that would be like playing using a shifter or something.
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I found one in New York but it has monitor issues, it was impossible to play. But I did fudge around with the joystick a bit, and it felt odd, but I can't confirm the playability difference. I live in Ohio, and over this past weekend I went to Cedar Point, and they have a huge arcade with tons of favorite classics, but not a single Nintendo game of any sort. You name it otherwise, it was there. Odd. . .
But they had two of the Hercules pinball games where the ball is almost the size of a pool cue, that is a monster to play, it was almost too far for me to reach.
This is a pic taken from Cedar point. The other pins are all full size. . .
severdhed:
that hercules pinball is huge...i just saw one for the first time the other day at Lakemont Park, which is a crappy little amusement park that is only about a 5 minute drive from my house. it doesnt have alot of cool rides or anything, but it is home to the oldest operational wooden roller coaster in the world. my 2 year old rode it with me the last time we were there...it was a little rough, but he had fun.
i got to play some games on my dk cab tonight, which was the first time i really got to do that. this 4way stick is way better than the wico, but the throw is alot longer than i would like. i barely broke the 50,000 mark in DK, which is a pretty crappy run. i had to go through and try each game and try to set the high score. i used Javeryh's game list, since our cabinets are functionally similar. i had never played most of the pacman games, other than pacman and ms pacman...most of them arent really that great. however i did discover that i like crush roller and pengo. mappy is pretty stupid. overall though, i think i have 26 games, and i'd guess 90% of them are alot of fun...even if i am not very good at them.