Build Your Own Arcade Controls Forum
Main => Everything Else => Topic started by: JoeB on March 04, 2004, 10:53:05 am
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Here's a suggestion for supergun builders ...
why not build a supergun into a 3 1/2 or 5 1/4 enclosure?? You know, those 40$ things you can buy anywhere that converts your hard drive or CD/DVD drive into an external USB2 or Firewire connectable device!
The great thing about these enclosures is:
- they look cool - otherwise no one will want to buy it
- it has a build in full functioning power supply (outputting all the required power!)
- it has a build in fan - to keep all the circuits nice and cool
- it's cheap!
Let me know what you think...
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when will Supergun builders start mass producing these so you can play Jamma games on your TV? :)
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it doesnt seem like its that hard to build one, especially if you already can build arcade controls, its just an arcade power supply (30-50$) a nice jamma harness or 2 (20-30$) one of those rgb converters (80$) or supposedly you can hack a dreamcast vga box (10-20$)for the rgb conversion (if anyone knows any more about this please pipe in) then connect it to your joystick/control panel or use hand held controllers or whatever, and voila, use the enclosure mentioned above or whatever you desire.
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when will Supergun builders start mass producing these so you can play Jamma games on your TV? :)
http://www.massystems.com/SuperNova.html
:)
they actually aren't that hard to build, I was pumped to build one until I looked at the cost of a jamma to NTSC convertor $95
http://www.arcadeshop.com/rgb/rgb.htm
and http://cps2shock.retrogames.com/jamma.html has an entire thing on creating your own supergun. I'd still like to make one in the future when I get some arcade boards, but its kinda something if you already have some jamma boards and other boards it'd be very cool to have.