Build Your Own Arcade Controls Forum
Main => Main Forum => Topic started by: speeder on November 11, 2010, 11:54:38 am
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Hello!
I am making a arcade game (yes, the game itself) and I intend to make the cabinet too. I don't have much time (I intend to have it done by half of January).
I need a trackball, the game is of the same genre as arkanoid and breakout, but I need two axis (too hard to explain now), so I need a trackball instead of a spinner, but I have no idea of what sort of trackball I should get.
I also need buttons, the problem is the colours, I need 2 cyan buttons, 2 orange buttons, 2 green buttons and 2 magenta buttons... I am not finding someone that sell cyan buttons, and the places I found that has magenta buttons usually don't have orange or green...
And finally, I have no idea of what monitor to buy, the game simulate vector graphics using bitmap, it runs in a 800x600 resolution, and use very bright and saturated colors, although I am developing it on a LCD, the LCD seemly is too slow and also looks wrong (the subpixel alignment of LCD displays make the game look "sheared" in several places, as is common objects composed solely of red or blue), so I guess it needs to be a CRT, but other than that I have no idea of what monitor to use. Oh, the game runs at 60 Hz too...
Also, I don't intend to use Jamma, but how I make a computer understand arcade buttons with USB? I already noticed that trackballs are sold with USB, but buttons are microswitches...
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i can't help you with much but for buttons you seem to want usb you could use Ipac 2 or 4 they come in USB and PS/2 that way you can use microswitch buttons and they are most common from what i can tell
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sounds like ipac 2 or 4 player, with the ps/2 connection to the computer. Ultimarc has two good choices of trackballs with usb connections, one is already made for wood mounting. If you want the original feeling you can go with an original arcade monitor or a crt monitor. You should get the VGAarcade video card from ultimarc so you can get the resolution back to native state. as for colors i have seen all those on ebay, just check there first.
but how I make a computer understand arcade buttons with USB?
You hook the joysticks and buttons up to the ipac witch is a keyboard encoder that hooks to the computer and pretty much copys the keyboard without keys ghosting.
The trackball acts like a plug and play mouse.
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I want to use a trackball and eight buttons...
The Ultimarc Mini-PAC Opti. work for that? (like, send signal as a mouse with 2 buttons and a keyboard with 6 buttons?)
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The mini pac opti model will work fine for your application. Make sure you get a trackball with NO interface (USB or PS2) so it will plug into the mini pac opti which has the interface for it
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Thanks :D
I am buying the separate interface specifically because they don't sold trackballs with interfaces :/