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Yet Another Project That Takes Forever (YAPTTF)
harri:
After little consulting on light gun part of the forum I ended up with Sinden guns. I'm pretty sure I will trade them to Gun4ir if there will be (3d printed) shells available or I otherwise stumble on good template for them but for now it will be Sinden that I ordered yesterday. I also ordered the 4 to 8 way restrictors for Sanwa sticks. I was going to order sticks and buttons too but to my surprise there was not enough stock for the buttons I was planning to use. So I made the order today with buttons available, even if they were cheaper it cost more than enough. Not a good time to be my credit card...
It was actually the 4 to 8 way restrictors that finalized the decision to make a control panel where 1 and 4 player controllers are on one piece and 2 and 3 player controls in other. I think that all in one piece would be too big to store and handle so main controller will be a four player set in two pieces. Instead of loading different Mame versions for two and four player sets I have to separate them to different mame favorites lists now.
I should have enough parts to build the main, StaWa yoke and light gun setups. I ordered different IO boards for yoke and light gun (for coin and exit buttons) to make sure that script choosing which version of Mame to load won't mix them only realizing afterwards that I don't use the IO board to recognize them but the devices themselves.
PL1:
--- Quote from: harri on August 21, 2023, 04:25:34 am ---I think that all in one piece would be too big to store and handle so main controller will be a four player set in two pieces.
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This part makes lots of sense.
--- Quote from: harri on August 21, 2023, 04:25:34 am ---1 and 4 player controllers are on one piece and 2 and 3 player controls in other.
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This part, I'm not so sure about. :-\
Were you thinking about an arrangement like this or something else? P4 P1 P2 P3
Many 4P MAME setups are arranged like this: P3 P1 P2 P4
- P1 and P2, the most commonly used positions, have the best locations closest to the center of the screen.
- Remapping for 4P games like TMNT that have P1-P4 arranged from left to right on the screen only involves remapping P1-P3 since P4 is already in the far right position.
Scott
harri:
--- Quote from: PL1 on August 21, 2023, 05:59:20 am ---
Were you thinking about an arrangement like this or something else? P4 P1 P2 P3
Many 4P MAME setups are arranged like this: P3 P1 P2 P4
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I was thinking P4 P1 P2 P3. Mostly because original idea was to make all pieces modular and then it would have been P1 P2 P3 from where bringing fourth module would have been involving moving first thee modules to right and adding fourth to the left. But I probably will go with P3 P1 P2 P4 since I've already arranged the colors in that order in my mind. I was going to put them in order of Gauntlet cabinet but I was so sure in my mind of the order that I didn't check it before ordering the parts so now I have four yellow and green buttons and six red and blue buttons. So order will be yellow-red-blue-green which is P3 P1 P2 P4.
harri:
I made a quick mockup of the 4 player control panel from leftover wood from a HT build to see if there is enough room for four players and that you see the monitor good enough from every position. It seemed ok and for hindsight, I could have just take the 6-player X-Men panel and cut the two extra sticks away from it. My design is couple of centimeters wider.
(The DHL-package beneath contains the sticks and buttons so it's high time to start building something.)
harri:
It has begun. This will be the backside of the cabinet.
Sadly, it has also stopped for now, I need more wood before I can continue and it'll take a while before getting it.
This thing will be heavy. (And huge.)
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