The NEW Build Your Own Arcade Controls
Main => Main Forum => Topic started by: dasiala on October 05, 2010, 10:16:37 pm
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Hey all! First post here (I apologize if I ask too many questions). I am currently in the planning stages of building a cocktail cabinet. I'm a very DIY kind of guy, so I decided to torture myself with actually building a cocktail cabinet from scratch rather than buy a kit. Since it is my first one, I decided to base my plans off of the pacman cabinet from mikesarcade.com. I originally was planning on building a head-to-head style, but I feel like I'm going to be missing out on a lot of horizontal games so I would like to add a 3rd control panel for 2 player side-by-side. I am not too interested in too many games made after 1992, so I'm not too worried about the CPU requirements. If I am to make a 3rd control panel, I would assume I should just take the dimensions for a head to head cp and make it bigger? I'm pretty daft when it comes to woodworking (thats what friends are for :D). Also, I am a huge centipede fan, and I can't remember if that particular game was horizontal or vertical. So that brings me to the question of, where the hell should I put my trackball? The only question I have about the monitor is that I want a CRT arcade monitor, but they seem to be hard to find. I know multitechgames.com sells 19" CGA replacement monitors for 165, but I know nothing about that company. Any help would be appreciated.
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MAWS is a good source to find out details about specific games. For instance, it says that Centiped is vertical:
http://maws.mameworld.info/maws/romset/centiped (http://maws.mameworld.info/maws/romset/centiped)
MAWS: http://maws.mameworld.info/maws/ (http://maws.mameworld.info/maws/)