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Main => Project Announcements => Topic started by: Burke LaShell on October 01, 2006, 08:20:10 pm

Title: Burke's 4 player monster
Post by: Burke LaShell on October 01, 2006, 08:20:10 pm

It's a little late for an announcement, but I thought I'd post some pictures of my first machine.

I have four kids, and I like double joystick games like Smash TV, so I decided on a four player monster machine.
(http://lashellfamily.googlepages.com/BurkesMAME.JPG)

Here are my boys playing.  They have a lot of fun with the cooperative games where you can keep "pumping in the quarters" to play forever.
(http://lashellfamily.googlepages.com/BoysPlaying.JPG)

Nice tongue...  ;D
(http://lashellfamily.googlepages.com/Panel1.JPG)

Four 8-way joysticks + one 4-way.  The player one 4-way and 8-way are wired together.  In the upper-left, there is a black button to <Escape> and a red button to <Pause>.
(http://lashellfamily.googlepages.com/Panel2.JPG)

I'm pretty proud of my wiring job.  There were more than 100 connections!
(http://lashellfamily.googlepages.com/Panel4.JPG)

The iPac made this easy.  It's a great device.
(http://lashellfamily.googlepages.com/iPac.JPG)

I'm not crazy about how the speakers turned out, but it's too late to do much to change them.
(http://lashellfamily.googlepages.com/Speakers.JPG)

Still left to do:
-monitor bezel
-3 access panels on the back
-hard wire the button to turn on/off the TV

It's not the greatest, but it's mine (and we're having fun with it)!  8)
--Burke

Title: Re: Burke's 4 player monster
Post by: MaMeNnO on October 02, 2006, 01:55:12 am

What can I say... it's a real monster!  ::)

Title: Re: Burke's 4 player monster
Post by: severdhed on October 02, 2006, 08:43:14 am

very cool, congrats on you first cabinet.

Title: Re: Burke's 4 player monster
Post by: leapinlew on October 02, 2006, 09:00:33 am

Isn't it cool to see kids enjoying what you built? I love watching people having fun playing mine.

Good job and nice work!

For the bezel - you may want to consider just putting a peice of smoked plexi over the television. I did this with my showcase and it turned out great.

Title: Re: Burke's 4 player monster
Post by: _) (V) (-) on October 03, 2006, 10:13:07 am

Awesome wiring job Burke!

Wonder if there is enough room to 'hide' your speakers behind the planned bezel? Or maybe inside the control panel...