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Main => Consoles => Topic started by: djflip on April 18, 2004, 12:08:48 pm

Title: Making a custom Arcade Cab for SNES system
Post by: djflip on April 18, 2004, 12:08:48 pm

I need to find a SNES controller hack that allows for regular arcade buttons to be soldered to the SNES Controller PCB.  

I'm not trying to interface a computer to anything.  I just need to remove the casing to a SNES system and insert it in a nice arcade cab.  The monitor is a regular TV...so no need for special cables or anything.

Anyone have any suggestions?  I guess what I'm looking for is how to wire the buttons to the SNES controller.

Title: Re:Making a custom Arcade Cab for SNES system
Post by: abrannan on April 19, 2004, 09:13:25 am

There's nothing special about it, it works the same as any controller hack.  Find solder points on the controller's PCB, solder lines to them that you either connect directly to your controls, or to a barrier strip and then to the controls.  If you've got a digital camera, and can take apart your SNES controllers, post a picture of the PCB from the controller here and I'll edit it to show you good solder points.

Title: Re:Making a custom Arcade Cab for SNES system
Post by: Gideon on April 20, 2004, 09:48:38 pm

I'm planning on doing the same thing, soon.  Why are you removing it from the case?  It seems like that would cause more problems than it would solve.

Title: Re:Making a custom Arcade Cab for SNES system
Post by: djflip on April 20, 2004, 10:24:38 pm

um....i don't want to have to open the cabinet each time a game is to be switched.  I am going to design it with a "slot" to accept cartridges.  This way, whenever you want to play something, you just insert a cartridge in the front of the cabinet.  

Title: Re:Making a custom Arcade Cab for SNES system
Post by: Gideon on April 21, 2004, 03:04:48 am

That's interesting.  Where exactly do you plan on putting the slot?  How are you mounting it solidly?

Title: Re:Making a custom Arcade Cab for SNES system
Post by: crashwg on April 21, 2004, 05:01:22 am

This has got to be one of the strangest ideas I've seen here in a while.  Why would you want to use a snes?  Emulators are readily available for it along with hundreds of roms.  Heck, you don't even need a powerful pc to run em.  I bet you could throw together a computer capable of running all the snes roms for under a hundred bucks!

Title: Re:Making a custom Arcade Cab for SNES system
Post by: djflip on April 21, 2004, 10:25:57 am

you probably could...but then there's the cost for a keyboard encoder.

I'm making this for a friend who owns a video game store.  He doesn't have computer games.  He's more of the "old school" gamer.  I thought about ROMS, but considering he's got TONS of SNES games....I think (and he does too) that hacking a system would be more "authentic".

Title: Re:Making a custom Arcade Cab for SNES system
Post by: gnateye on April 21, 2004, 12:48:19 pm

ive got  a cab with a dreamcast in it plays nes, snes, tg16, atari, atari 8bit, genesis, sms, gameboy, and a bunch of other emulators, and if you had the snes amu and roms on one cd you wouldnt haveto open the cab to change the games and you could easily switch between systems just by switching the cd. not to mention dcs go for around 15$ right now

just my 2 cents