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The Mame'ing of the Shrew (A novella)
DrewKaree:
The ABSOLUTE best way to get clean straight holes with no "tear-out" on the backside and not have to deal with "wagon wheels" or burnt wood is to use a drill press, FORSTNER BITS, and ALWAYS, ALWAYS, ALWAYS use a scrap piece of wood to back up the piece you are drilling into. Even if you don't have a drill press or forstner bits, you should ALWAYS (do you see a pattern on this point?) use a piece of scrap to back up the hole. This will save you from having "gunshot" holes on the backside of your CP. See attached pic as to one of the two kinds of forstner bits there are. Forstners are more expensive, bu t produce a nicer cleaner hole with less effort. That's my story, and I'm stickin' to it.
PacManess:
Hiya everyone, glad you enjoyed my story of woe and misery.
I had to take a day or two off from the MAME project...just getting a little frustrated.
Day 2 went pretty a-ok. We wired the CP and it worked! Well, sort of. Player 1's Button 3 kept working/not working, and we had all sorts of QDs that just didn't have a very good connection...so after a few minutes of button pounding the copper would shake away from the metal on the QDs and break the connection, or they'd come off completely.
And I had another issue. For some reason, some games would just flat out crash back to Mamewah. Which is ok I guess, but it sucked in the middle of a heated Double Dragon game to have it go flying back to the FE. Then, you know, sometimes the KeyWiz seemed to "reprogram" itself and not work correctly. This was fairly easy solved by just resetting it to the normal mode, but it still sucked.
Drilling. That was good times. Last week we used the 1" Spade bit for the buttons...we'd just do the 1", then whittle out enough to squeeeeze the buttons in. I almost prefer this to the 1 and 1/8" holes because I hate it when there isn't enough button to cover ALL of the hole. That happened on a few buttons.
So...already plans are in the mind for the "really for real CP"...I think I'm going to go with 2 Omni-Stik Retros and just cut out the dedicated 4-way. I mean, you know, Leaf Switchy times are good and nice and all, but it's not THAT important.
Oi vey.
This is a crazy addiction. I told my friend while we were finishing the 2nd CP that I already had in mind how "Next Time" would be easier...and he just stared at me. Some people just don't understand.
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