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Recommendations on Arcade Cabinet Kits?
shateredsoul:
Wow! That looks great! I'm in the midst of configuring my control panel. It will be franken panelish... but it seems to be the case with everyones first cab.
I really like how you've designed cabs for specific types of games (like your space invaders arcade and shmup arcade).
Here's the layout I started with
I'm asking him to move the trackballs button to the left of the trackball and add a third one. I'm pretty happy with everything else.
Does anyone have any ideas how many side buttons I would need for pinball? The player 2 pause I'm probably going to make a reset buttons instead. I don't think I need two pause buttons.
The trackball and spinner will be added at a later date. I didn't expect them to be as expensive as they are. I also have some lightguns. I'm going to try and find a holster for them. I've seen a bunch of people using bike rack pieces.
shateredsoul:
Oh... maybe instead of a reset buttons I'll make it a favorites buttons. This would work really well for Maximus arcade.
DeLuSioNal29:
I would get rid of the left and mouse buttons next to the trackball. Instead, you can put them next to the 4-way joystick. That way in Windows, they would work as mouse buttons, but in MAME (here's the stroke of genius) you simply reassign them to be buttons 1 and 2. So, for example, in MAME you would see: Button 1: CTRL and Mouse button 1 and Button 2: ALT and Mouse button 2. What that would do is allow your mouse buttons to be use in games. That's what I did on my panel. Works perfectly.
If you plan to use Maximus Arcade, you'd probably want the following buttons: Select, Exit, Favs and Back. The back button will get you back to the main screen so that you can choose which emulator to use.
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DeLuSioNal29:
Here is a sample of all the colors.
shateredsoul:
Genius! What about the trackballs that use 3 buttons? How did you configure that?