This looks awesome so far! Question, are you planning on using WLED with software like LEDBlinky or just setting up profiles manually?
Looking awesome!
Will you have enough front screen width to allow access between seats for players 2 and 3? Bit hard to see at this stage. Any interest in running e-racing or project cars while you're at it?
Sides do look arcadie. Well done on them!! :cheers:
are there supports in the middle under the MDF section for the seat?
Excellent project! Also, what is the brand of those seats?
Any updates? :)
Mate, this project's looking great! I'm definitely going to be keeping an eye on this. Wish I had the space for a sit down racer (not really the sort of thing that's compatible with a one bedroom apartment - even just my Barcade cabinet takes up tons of space in it)
Any updates? :)
Hoping to get back here for an update in the next week or two!
It's been a little challenging to find time to work on the project since my son was born, but I have been chipping away at it and collecting more parts for the other machines.
I've just about finished putting together the bulk of two machines. Then I'll Router in the T-Moulding, wire it all up, then tear it down and paint.
I also am looking at vinyl stickers, especially for the side panels.
Not sure where to go for custom artwork though.
Any ideas?
Any updates? :)
Hoping to get back here for an update in the next week or two!
It's been a little challenging to find time to work on the project since my son was born, but I have been chipping away at it and collecting more parts for the other machines.
I've just about finished putting together the bulk of two machines. Then I'll Router in the T-Moulding, wire it all up, then tear it down and paint.
I also am looking at vinyl stickers, especially for the side panels.
Not sure where to go for custom artwork though.
Any ideas?
I hear ya. I built my first stand up arcade machine when my son was around 1 and that was a challenge. Then my first driving cab when he was about 3. I'm getting ready to start a twin racer build myself.
For Artwork, have you seen gbeef's cabinet? http://forum.arcadecontrols.com/index.php/topic,111231.0/all.html Not sure who he had print it, but it turned out amazing. Sadly I ended up having to break down my cabinet before I got to artwork. It was just painted.
You may want to consider adding in access hatches. In the rear of the head, I'd put a door or at least removable furniture screws so you can get in there easy. And I plan on making my new bases have the seat back flip up hinge style so I can put things like amps in the base cavity. I think I've decided on using the Daytona cabinet as my base model for the twin (vs the Sega Racing Classic style that I originally built, inspired by gbeef's cab), and plan on putting the PCs behind the LCD monitors in the heads - which means I need to way to get access to them. And lots of cable routing! So many cables.
Anyway, great progress. Can't wait to see more!
Oh wow this is so impressive!
I am glad to find some more people doing the race leader lights. I just got my led strip (ws2812b) programmed to an Arduino nano. I have it so 61x makes it all green, 51x all blue, 41x all red, 31x rainbow, 21x dancing green, etc. That way each player and even game is easily configurable in the mamehooker ini and you just change the value sent. My test of San Francisco Rush the Rock had the race leader light come on right away. I can send the code here soon if you want to rule out an Arduino code issue or a hardware issue for why your race leader light has a small delay. It took me a while to get it programmed and thankfully gpt4 was very helpful.
What games are you using with race leader lights?
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Oh wow this is so impressive!
I am glad to find some more people doing the race leader lights. I just got my led strip (ws2812b) programmed to an Arduino nano. I have it so 61x makes it all green, 51x all blue, 41x all red, 31x rainbow, 21x dancing green, etc. That way each player and even game is easily configurable in the mamehooker ini and you just change the value sent. My test of San Francisco Rush the Rock had the race leader light come on right away. I can send the code here soon if you want to rule out an Arduino code issue or a hardware issue for why your race leader light has a small delay. It took me a while to get it programmed and thankfully gpt4 was very helpful.
What games are you using with race leader lights?
Thanks mate!
I love the Race Leader lights along with any game that can have an output translated to a physical LED - it's a lot of the reason I wanted to take on this project.
I appreciate the tip using an Arduino Nano. I think my issue has been from using an ESP32 - from reading specs and so fourth, I think my issue is that the data wire needs a 5V signal and I'm barely getting 2+. I tried to use a Level Shifter, but couldn't get a solid 5v from the ESP32 for the high power, got around this by using the 5v from the power supply but then found the ESP32 couldn't supply a 3.3v either.
I've ended up buying a couple of https://quinled.info/quinled-dig-octa-brainboard-32-8l/ (https://quinled.info/quinled-dig-octa-brainboard-32-8l/) which have built in level shifters, so I hope this solves my LED issues.
I love that you have San Francisco Rush the Rock working - I hope I can get the original working via LAN also.
Regarding Games with Race Leader outputs, this is what I have learnt so far:
Daytona Championship USA Original hardware uses a second screen called a "billboard" to show race leader and race stats. It's powered by a Rasp Pi - I don’t think this will be available unfortunately Dirty Drivin' Need to play around with this one – it appears like some of the outputs "flash" when you are in front Hyperdrive H2O YES Sega Racing Classic (Daytona USA 1) YES Sonic All Stars Racing YES - not positive about this one Storm Racer G billboard lamp output - more testing needed Daytona USA 2 - PE YES Dirt Devils YES Scud Racing YES Sega Rally 2 YES Daytona USA YES Outrunners YES VirtuaRacing 12347=digit1=0 - more testing needed Rad Racing There is a "Winner" output - more testing needed Rad Racing 12355=out7=0 - more testing needed
Yeah this is pretty awesome to get all these race leader lights working!
SF Rush, Rush the Rock and Rush 2049 work great with the race leader light. The problem with Rush (my favorite racing game) is that the LAN version only works for 15 to 99% of the way through a race before it crashes one of the players games. The other issue is that Windows 10 cannot programmatically enable and disable the TAP VPN (needed to play the Rushes and California Speed currently) since Microsoft has not added the ability and turning the tap adapter on manually loses network for the other lan games. I started looking into programs that can do gui mouse clicks (literally programmatically clicking on parts of the screen and mimicking what you do with your mouse) but I gave up hoping a Mame dev would fix the Rush LAN at some point. That or Cruis’n USA would be my two favorite games that need to be linkable.
Oh wow this is so impressive!
I am glad to find some more people doing the race leader lights. I just got my led strip (ws2812b) programmed to an Arduino nano. I have it so 61x makes it all green, 51x all blue, 41x all red, 31x rainbow, 21x dancing green, etc. That way each player and even game is easily configurable in the mamehooker ini and you just change the value sent. My test of San Francisco Rush the Rock had the race leader light come on right away. I can send the code here soon if you want to rule out an Arduino code issue or a hardware issue for why your race leader light has a small delay. It took me a while to get it programmed and thankfully gpt4 was very helpful.
What games are you using with race leader lights?
I was going to ask you how you got your steering wheel cutout so nice... I'm about to embark on that phase myself next.
Your project looks amazing! I'm doing something similar as well... my image is attached.
I was going to ask you how you got your steering wheel cutout so nice... I'm about to embark on that phase myself next.
When it comes to the decals I can probably help out as well :) I'll be making a set for mine eventually so can extend to fit yours easily enough
Did you end up hooking the VR buttons to the right lights as well?
If you figure out the color codes for the original cabinets, please pass them along! Seems to be a tightly held secret. lol
If you figure out the color codes for the original cabinets, please pass them along! Seems to be a tightly held secret. lol
Yep! It is a tightly held secret lol! As much as I have scoured the internet and forums, I can't get the answer! :dunno
Heres a sidepanel I did in photoshop. All grids and logos are vector smart objects and the gradient is a layer so can scale as big as needed
Super impressed with this project, its all coming together beautifully. Always good to see left hand shifter from another Aussie.
Have you had any luck getting the tacho to work for many other classic arcade racers?
Can't wait to see yours painted. I've started painting mine as well, its definitely a process
Also if you want to upscale those side images before printing this AI image upscaler is pretty astonishing
https://deep-image.ai/