Build Your Own Arcade Controls Forum
Main => Software Forum => Topic started by: the3eyedblindman on February 16, 2005, 07:21:40 pm
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Im talking about games such as Medal of Honor and Halo (Pc Versions), ect. What is the best way to play these on a cab. The 3 choices I came up were A) just the keyboard and mouse, b) a gamepad and C) use your arcade controls ( I figured you could use your player 1 joystick for directions, have 2 pushbuttons be look up and look down, 1 pushbutton be fire, one pushbutton be change weapon and maybe 2 for jumping and crouching)
I mainly want to know how the majority of you go about playing first person shooters on your cabinet.
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I think the ideal control panel setup for a FPS would be a trackball or analog joystick for looking (left hand), and a firetop 8way joystick for movement (right hand). Maybe some buttons could be placed to the right of the trackball for switching weapons/jumping/crouching (your left thumb could tap these).
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I would personally use a mouse (find a black mouse and cut the wire... wire it through the a whole (tie knot in other side) and reconnect the wires.... So you have a mouse cord coming out of a control panel.
Then if you want to get fancy.. you could even route a little mouse pad area and put a real good mouse pad in its place.
Then I would take about 10 buttons and place them in easy to access spots. Inverted T and spaces close to it for run / jump / duck. And a few above it for misc commands...
but all in all... you really aren't going to get more out of it then a mouse and keyboard.
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I would personally use a mouse (find a black mouse and cut the wire... wire it through the a whole (tie knot in other side) and reconnect the wires.... So you have a mouse cord coming out of a control panel.
Then if you want to get fancy.. you could even route a little mouse pad area and put a real good mouse pad in its place.
Then I would take about 10 buttons and place them in easy to access spots. Inverted T and spaces close to it for run / jump / duck. And a few above it for misc commands...
but all in all... you really aren't going to get more out of it then a mouse and keyboard.
I'd use a panel trackball. Always hated mice for game input.
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I play a lot of first persojn shooters. We have a clan and use Ventrilo for doing voice comm while we play. Most all of us in the clan use a Belkin Nostromo Gaming Controller in conjunction with a mouse. This setup would be quite easy to simulate with a custom control panel. I've considered it many times. Here is a link to the device. It's awesome and the price is extremely reasonable.
http://catalog.belkin.com/IWCatProductPage.process?Merchant_Id=&Section_Id=2071&pcount=&Product_Id=157024
Enjoy,
John
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I'll probably just hide a usb gamepad in keyboard drawer.
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I would suggest oh... I dunno, a PC!
These games are intended for long-term play and thus don't work well with a cab. Also the text is often too small to read on the pc versions.
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I have to agree with Howard. You won't find me trying to Play Unreal Tournament 2004 on my cabinet, the same way I don't play MAME games on my PC.
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Thirded. I play arcade games with a joystick on a cab, and FPS games with a mouse and keyboard on a PC.
Doing it the other way around is just painful, and rather silly.
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i'd use an XBOX controller with 2 analog thumbsticks
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I don't play many PC games, and even fewer FPS, however for the games I do play (ThinkTanks in articular) I use the trackball for aiming and top fire joystick for movement and shooting. I do know that one of the better ThinkTanks players uses a Nostromo.
I have been trying out ZAP from GarageGames. It is an online, multilplayer game that has a nice retro vector graphics look. The controls are similar to robotron, but I find it easier to play using a dual analog gamepad.
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Attempting to end on a positive note (hey I'll try anything once) there are a good number of pc games that do play well on an arcade cab. We have a thread about it, look it up. :)
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Once again, don't wanna make Howard mad ::), I will probably just buy an analog gamepad and hide it in my keyboard drawer.
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So you enjoy standing two feet away from a monitor for several hours, thus ruining your eyes?
Arcade machines are designed for short term play.... you'll go blind if you play too much. 8)
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So you enjoy standing two feet away from a monitor for several hours, thus ruining your eyes?
I earn a living sitting two feet from a monitor for several hours a day.
Actually my eyes have been bad since 2nd grade, which is was 4 years or so before the first video arcade machine.
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So you enjoy standing two feet away from a monitor for several hours, thus ruining your eyes?
I earn a living sitting two feet from a monitor for several hours a day.
Actually my eyes have been bad since 2nd grade, which is was 4 years or so
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Yes, I will play all games from my arcade, and this computer will be used for doing things like this.