Build Your Own Arcade Controls Forum
Main => Main Forum => Topic started by: toadley_stoned on January 04, 2008, 10:39:51 pm
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I've wanted my own arcade game since I was like 10... I'm now 30. In all this time I don't know why I never thought of building my own. Anyway... I've got everything I need done for the time, except my controls. I intend to buy an X-Arcade Dual for my Arcade Cabinet with the console games inside, but a side project I'm working on is to build a computer desk out of a cab. I was wondering if anyone knows anyway to take the controls I already have for my PC (Both are 10 Button USB Controls) and hook up authentic arcade controls to them so I can design the look of my own Control Board?
I would be indebted for life to someone if they could help me figure out a way to do this. It seems like it should be easy, I just lack the knowledge to figure it out...
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ummmm... errr.... this entire site is dedicated to answering that very question. Have you searched, read the articles linked in the left side menu, etc?
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You're going to find it difficult to do hacks if you're a newbie - you're looking at one of the more complex ways to do it.
Here's a newbie's guide in one line:
Get an old PC, get some games, get an old cabinet, get an i-pac, plug it all in.
If none of that makes sense, google -pac and your world will open out from there. Either that, or buy the Project Arcade book and have an extended sit own on the toilet - you'll be there a while!
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ummmm... errr.... this entire site is dedicated to answering that very question. Have you searched, read the articles linked in the left side menu, etc?
Actually I found the forum through a Yahoo! search, and thought it was just that, a forum set up for it, thanks for sending me to the site tho