This may sound weird coming from me...

[Druin]

Those that know of me will find this post weird, but here goes:

Well, tonight I played Ikari for the first time with the REAL controls using Druin's interface, and it's great!

haha.

All the past 3 years I haven't had any joysticks, any control panel, certainly no cabinet...at best I hooked up LS30's temporarily for tryout on the Rotary Interface with LEDs for the output, but I haven't had a keyboard encoder either.  Just some scrappy parts to just do the design and research portion, not the gameplay.

I got Ipac and Optipac yesterday and wired up a little test panel on scrap wood, hooked up the rotary interface, and played some Ikari the proper way.  Great experience FINALLY!

[u_rebelscum]

LOL.    It is weird.

So, what's your review of the product? Do you recommend it?  

[OSCAR]

LOL!  This is great!  I guess that means I should install a spinner now....    

[Druin]

So, what's your review of the product? Do you recommend it?  

I recommend this interface to anybody looking to play those mechanical stick games with authenticity - the interface installed seamlessly, worked on the first try flawlessly, and responded with great results.  All I had to do was set the dial analog speed to about 15 in the menus  and it responded one turn per click each time!

I also heard that everyone else who's tried it, found it easy to use and provided hours of clean family fun!  Minus the killing...

Now if only I could find some wire to hook up my Happ trackball to the Optipac....I don't want to cut the harness, not that I have plans for it...I'd rather wait and see if I can find some mating pins at work and some heat shrink tubing to make custom single-wire plugs for the harness, and hook that to optipac

Another long day of waiting.  It's easy to put off cabinet building when it's in the conceptual stages but once you have a coin door hanging off your computer desk and all the parts ready to connect, desperation sinks in

[Druin]

LOL!  This is great!  I guess that means I should install a spinner now....    

Trade you an interface and some cash for a spinner!

I'll be ordering maybe a DOT as soon as I get some more income...I've been waiting for years to play arkanoid properly, but the Ebay spinners were always $60+ for beat up 15 year old ones...


I just took a picture of my "Cab" (workbench with scrap parts) but I have to wait until I get to work tomorrow to download (reinstalled windows at home, no utils put back in yet for camera).

I'll post my "cab" tomorrow....coin door and all!

[OSCAR]

Trade you an interface and some cash for a spinner!

I'll be ordering maybe a DOT as soon as I get some more income...I've been waiting for years to play arkanoid properly, but the Ebay spinners were always $60+ for beat up 15 year old ones...

Check your PM...

[Druin]

Here's that picture of my cabinet so far....just guts

http://members.rogers.com/xemn90/misc/cab.jpg

[Brax]

Dear god!!!! That's the most painful thing I've ever seen!!!


Just a hint....... wood works wonders!  

[shmokes]

ROTFLMAO

Did you mount those sticks and buttons before you cut the wood???  Everything is covered in sawdust!  

[Druin]

Just a hint....... wood works wonders!  

And I thought the world ended when the electrons left the wires and went back home to the power supplies for the day....

I'll definitely check into this 'wood' thing...Thanks for the tip!

[Druin]

ROTFLMAO

Did you mount those sticks and buttons before you cut the wood???  Everything is covered in sawdust!  

I can't stop laughing now that I see it, it's much better in picture than person....

The sawdust is residue from unrelated basement renovations...everything got covered...

I just noticed there's two things missing in this cab....a computer, and monitor....

[dhansen]

Guitar pedals...cool, is that an original Tube Screamer I see?

[Wade]

No way, that's a roland BOSS pedal.

Hey Druin, you can get a connector that will fit right onto the trackball harness from Radio shack for about $2.  Then you won't have to splice into anything.

Wade

[Rocky]

Wow!  After seeing that picture, I don't feel so bad about some of the times I just "had" to hook things up to see if they worked and had wires everywhere and stuff teetering on stacks of other stuff  

Man, you need a cab!

BTW, nice 4 player coin door!


Rocky

[Druin]

Guitar pedals...cool, is that an original Tube Screamer I see?

Unfortunately not...Just a Boss super phaser PH2  and a Zoom 505-II
My other things not in the cabinet (?) are MT2 Metal Zone, GT-6 multi FX, and Triple XXX retubed with JJ E34L, with Mesa 2x12 vertical half closed EV 12L and Vintage 30

But that's a little off topic....so to keep it on track, when my real cab is completed, I'll probably have it sitting next to the speaker cab...or how about I put the control panel on top of the Speaker cab...hmmm

[Druin]

Man, you need a cab!

BTW, nice 4 player coin door!

Working on it!  

I just had to have 4player door, because I like the look plus I may need the discreet player coins for games like Xenophobe where the slot you use will give health to that player specifically (I think Gauntlet is the same)

Only problem is my cabinet layout is going to be based on only 2 players, I hate the bulky cab look....so I will have satellite mini control panels that can add on when needed.

But for the coin door I'm going to order the red reject button assemblies, I hate the yellow.  I also wish the coin return slot doors had metal, not plastic. I miss the retro CLANG when you retrieve a quarter that misfired into the reject bin

I wonder if I can replace the door down there...