The NEW Build Your Own Arcade Controls
Main => Main Forum => Topic started by: Odonadon on January 17, 2003, 03:25:43 pm
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Okay, here's my dilemma. I purchsed the LED harness for the i-Pac to take advantage of the way MAME uses the keyboard LEDs. I have NO CLUE where I should put these :)
Does anyone have a suggestion for placing the LEDs that would best suit the most amount of games in MAME. Should I get lighted buttson from Happ? Should I hook them up to my coin door? Surely there has to be a few people besides myself who bought the harness.
Thanks for your recommendations and advise.
Odonadon
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some people put LEDs in normal buttons to make glowing buttons.
I plan on getting the nintendo buttons, which are microswitch but use the button part of a leaf button. Leaf buttons are the only ones that are translucent.
Those buttons are hard to find though. I talkes to oscarcontrols and kelsey is looking into producing those. They are just punched sheet metal essentially. So we'll have to wait and see on those.
Until then I have mounted leds into my start buttons.
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some people put LEDs in normal buttons to make glowing buttons.
I plan on getting the nintendo buttons, which are microswitch but use the button part of a leaf button. Leaf buttons are the only ones that are translucent.
Those buttons are hard to find though. I talkes to oscarcontrols and kelsey is looking into producing those. They are just punched sheet metal essentially. So we'll have to wait and see on those.
Until then I have mounted leds into my start buttons.
I'm not looking at reproducing the pushbuttons, just the brackets. They won't be 100% identical to the original Nintendo brackets, either. I intend to include a mounting location for a LED as well as the microswitch.