Author Topic: How did you find BYOAC? (Read 8389 times)

saint · « **on:** May 21, 2004, 05:59:00 pm »

Trying to get a feel for how people found the website here. Please answer the poll - thanks!

--- saint

greywolf22 · « **Reply #1 on:** May 21, 2004, 06:01:38 pm »

I think this will be really interesting to see...I wish I could remember how I found this site...I'm sure it was from someone elses web page, but for the life of me I can't remember...either I've been lurking THAT long or I'm getting older

gdilly · « **Reply #2 on:** May 21, 2004, 06:41:44 pm »

Found BYOAC a few months ago when I first started down this long and expensive road of arcade gaming by using Yahoo!. I was searching for imformation on a 4 player design and typed "4 player control panel"

That was months ago and now I'm addicted!

Luxury · « **Reply #3 on:** May 21, 2004, 07:32:18 pm »

I was looking through arcade cabinets on ebay where one was a dedicated mame cabinet. Sounded cool, so I checked his site (dont think its around anymore), and that linked here i believe. If it didn't, then it linked to lusid's site i think, and that linked here.

Chazz · « **Reply #4 on:** May 21, 2004, 07:47:08 pm »

When I first got my Neogeo from a auction it didn't take me too long to get sick of the two carts it came with. I started looking around for more info on cabinets themselves since I didn't know too much about them except that they loved to eat my quarters. I first found PC2JAMMA a loooong time ago and then found BYOAC.

ArcadeMaze · « **Reply #5 on:** May 21, 2004, 09:54:03 pm »

In all honesty, it has been so long I don't recall how I found this place. $:-\$

If I had to guess, I would say I linked to it from another site, maybe Dave's site from way back when.

Maybe not.

But on the upside, I have loved every minute of it!

RacerX · « **Reply #6 on:** May 21, 2004, 10:24:29 pm »

I found the site back in 1999. I lurked for awhile, saw the Roswell cab and Mr. Salty's arcade, and I just had to make my own. I don't remember how I found the site.

Mooters · « **Reply #7 on:** May 21, 2004, 11:13:02 pm »

Found it while searching for a WORKING PSX emulator and cam3e acrost it with Google...Google IS #1!!!

Spyder

Setabs · « **Reply #8 on:** May 21, 2004, 11:16:26 pm »

I think I found this site using google but what I was searching for I don't know. That was probably about 2 years ago. I had my bookmark linked to another part of this site and never got onto the message boards until I started looking at the examples. Then I leeched on the boards for about 2 months before I started posting anything.

AlanS17 · « **Reply #9 on:** May 21, 2004, 11:33:55 pm »

Quote from: Chazz on May 21, 2004, 07:47:08 pm

When I first got my Neogeo from a auction it didn't take me too long to get sick of the two carts it came with. I started looking around for more info on cabinets themselves since I didn't know too much about them except that they loved to eat my quarters. I first found PC2JAMMA a loooong time ago and then found BYOAC.

Sounds alot like me, except the game was Killer Instinct.

SNAAAKE · « **Reply #10 on:** May 22, 2004, 12:02:37 am »

Well...I found byoac around 2000.I was simply tired of playing games with a pad

I figure there is GOT to be some other day.So I went to aol.com and typed "custom stick" and found this dude's site.

http://axelb.free.fr/caj/
(26th on joystick examples section)

Couldn't belive my eyes...ACTUAL arcade sticks and buttons for console.
HOLY BATMAN !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Still don't know anything though,so I emailed the guy asking for him to build me one.He wouldn't so I went ahead and tried it myself(I was 15) and it WORKED !!

He had a link to byoac so here I am

Yes I clearly do remember any and everything cuz building your own arcade is one of the coolest thing on this planet !!

Apollo · « **Reply #11 on:** May 22, 2004, 12:11:44 am »

Gotta say I don't remember but I'm pretty sure it was a Google search for MAME which I had read about in an article in a local New Zealand magazine "The Listener". That lead me pretty quickly to this site and may I say thankyou to "The Listener" for that.

Generic Eric · « **Reply #12 on:** May 22, 2004, 01:06:50 am »

Wow...it has been awhile...I lurked for quite awhile....
(from the page to your left, below my name {hint; the www link. } ---

I got into the build your own arcade control "scene"... while searching on google for Dreamcast Gun "hacks." I was looking to see if anyone had hacked the guts of two guns into one into one gun contorler because I was getting stomped in The House of the Dead !

3 to 4 years later, I have spent between $600 and $700. I don't even have a CP to show for it, but it has been the greatest thing besides my wife {aww....

} during my day.

THANKS SAINT!!! - thanks for the site, thanks for the book....thanks for a Hobby!

Thanks to the others too. Planet Jay, OSCAR, MinerAL(I have 3 4.5in trackballs now,) Snaake (for the artwork and pumping up the dreamcast!!!!,) PixelHugger( for the excellent artwork, for the HAT!!!) Jakobud (for the cabinet deminsions,) eightbit (hope you get to use the air hockey plans,) birdtales (where is hulkcade?) Carsten Carlos (for the artwork,) Peale, milita man (for the joysticks,) Thenasty(the games & coin mechs,) Usedelectonics (for the gears) mtd (for the dual strike,) Xiaou2 (keep working on the marble insanity! To mahuti, zorg, & mametrixreloaded for the various versions of the vector library (see my sig!)

More thanks go to brax, rampy, HC, lilwolf, stuzza, and to so many others that I may have forgotten --- its been a blast!

Bumblebounces · « **Reply #13 on:** May 22, 2004, 03:00:42 am »

Been checking in here since sometime around 1999 (okay, yes I am a lurker as this is my first actual post).

I have no idea how I found this place but I am so glad I did. Since finding the FAQ, I have built a stand alone controller and then graduated to a full size, scratch built cabinet. I have found the examples database that Saint keeps to be the most helpful. Seeing what others have done has inspired me to create a monster of my own.

Thanks Saint...

spidermonkey · « **Reply #14 on:** May 22, 2004, 03:39:49 am »

Found it about two years ago by doing a search for an "arcade joystick" for my friends Defender machine. Thank God he asked me to help him search for a joystick otherwise I may still have been playing MAME on my keyboard.

Actually I think I would have found it anyway since I was about to start construction on a cabinet to put my playstation into. MANY thanks to you Saint for creating this awsome site. Now I can't go for more then two days without checking out the message boards.

Sasquatch! · « **Reply #15 on:** May 22, 2004, 07:38:23 pm »

Shadow's "PC Arcade" was the first cabinet I ever saw, so if he had a link to BYOAC, then it was through his site (which has since disappeared).

tom61 · « **Reply #16 on:** May 23, 2004, 12:12:50 am »

"Been here so long I don't remember."

I think I might have posted how I found this site on the first messageboard. I don't think you were using even a V3 (whatever.isp.com) yet, I remember loosing the site for awhile because of the hosting change.

Paul Olson · « **Reply #17 on:** May 23, 2004, 02:35:05 am »

I think I originally found it via a post in a newsgroup. Not sure which group.

Paul

DaveJ-UK · « **Reply #18 on:** May 23, 2004, 07:02:20 am »

I was browsing eBay for a Neo Geo MVS or Street Fighter cabinet when I came across a MAME cab.

I didn't think it looked too hard to build myself, so I googled and found http://www.mameworld.net/pc2jamma/ which linked here I believe.

saint · « **Reply #19 on:** May 23, 2004, 11:18:02 am »

www.crl.com/~saint was the first I think
www.iclc.net/~saint
www.series2000.com/~saint
arcadecontrols.speedhost.com
www.arcadecontrols.com

I *think* that was the sequence of events

--- saint

Quote from: tom61 on May 23, 2004, 12:12:50 am

"Been here so long I don't remember."

I think I might have posted how I found this site on the first messageboard. I don't think you were using even a V3 (whatever.isp.com) yet, I remember loosing the site for awhile because of the hosting change.

Geekboy · « **Reply #20 on:** May 23, 2004, 02:42:23 pm »

I was browsing Slashdot on day and saw Cmdr Taco's MAME cabinet "Jubei" and I thought it was the coolest thing ever. http://cmdrtaco.net/jubei/

I had no idea that you could build your own Cabinet. I then Googled for similar sites and found this one.

Lilwolf · « **Reply #21 on:** May 23, 2004, 03:09:54 pm »

My boss got me into emulation years ago... around .30 or so of mame. Then years later I built up a single joystick with 6 buttons in a box... then after that I found the site.

been here ever since.

nomad · « **Reply #22 on:** May 23, 2004, 03:18:46 pm »

I bought the Maximum PC How-To guide and there was an article on how to build your own arcade. There was a link in it to this site and now I have been addicted to arcades for 6 months

Sylentwulf · « **Reply #23 on:** May 23, 2004, 04:59:55 pm »

Probably from the Digital press forums. Used to be the only forum I went to, but they switched servers and it's so slow now that it feels like I'm back on a dial up

nipsmg · « **Reply #24 on:** May 23, 2004, 07:44:52 pm »

I put "so long I dont' remember".. it was one of the sites before speedhost (under the handle 'Intensify' I think), but I think the first time I came across mame randomly, I was like "hmm I bet you can hook this up to real controls" and started looking..

-- then I think regretably I came across Arcadeathome ... what a crappy site.

I eventually wound up here and never turned back

-- nothing else like it.

--NipsMG

gprime · « **Reply #25 on:** May 24, 2004, 12:15:52 am »

Quote from: Geekboy on May 23, 2004, 02:42:23 pm

I was browsing Slashdot on day and saw Cmdr Taco's MAME cabinet "Jubei" and I thought it was the coolest thing ever. http://cmdrtaco.net/jubei/

I had no idea that you could build your own Cabinet. I then Googled for similar sites and found this one.

Same way I found it. The day I saw that I was drooling over it and began to plan my own. Following his links I found this site and I was in heaven

exian · « **Reply #26 on:** May 24, 2004, 01:57:11 am »

Found this great sire when I was searching for "Arcade Cabinet Plans" in Google...

rampy · « **Reply #27 on:** May 24, 2004, 10:29:59 am »

I'm ashamed to admit that I think I found this place from the arcade@home site (back when it was THE first place to have MAME cabinet examples like retrocactus, mean green mame... before it became the pimped out pop-up attrocity it is now) or perhaps a news post on davesclassics (again before it got ridiculous) or perhaps a news post on Jim's Emunews.

I came and read the faq. and would come back and re-read the faq dreaming of the day i'd have enough scratch (or space) to build a MAME cabinet. I didn't start participating until shortly after the bulletin board system switched to yabbse and I coincidently bought a condo and had space to consider getting/building a cabinet...

But I digress. I'm pretty sure it was via A@H or one of the early project pioneer examples.

I remember thinking ... "Saint".. .??!?? this guy think he's roger moore or something?! =)

Rampy

hyiu · « **Reply #28 on:** May 24, 2004, 10:37:15 am »

I was recommended by my co-worker...

he's also into gaming... and showed me about Mame...

then I'm like in heaven.... and then he showed me about people are actually building CP and cabs !!!....(that's when my keyboard is kinda breaking down with me playing games on it... haa haa....)

and I get addicted right away... haa haa....

this is the best !!!!...

sjgrover · « **Reply #29 on:** May 24, 2004, 10:48:24 am »

Found out about the site through the article in Maximum PC last fall. As it stands now I've got a desktop control panel complete, a mini cab about halfway done and a full size cab in design.

fredster · « **Reply #30 on:** May 24, 2004, 11:26:06 am »

I was looking for arcade machine information. I put in "arcade controls" and it came up with this site.

DaveMMR · « **Reply #31 on:** May 24, 2004, 05:30:50 pm »

I think I found this site because I always wanted to buy an arcade cabinet since I was young. I decided to see how much people were charging for them and stumbled upon this site.

delta88 · « **Reply #32 on:** May 24, 2004, 08:20:41 pm »

Hmmmm, Im gonna go with 99 or 2000. back when you could post annaymously

I found dis place on google i think.. I was trying to get this virtua fighter fixed that i dumpster picked. Then a buddy got me into emu's and I had this sweet idea to put the emu in my old cab.. a little google later and I come to find out that .. dang.. i'm only the up-teenth million person to have this very same idea

that and the pc in a nes case(diff story) but yeah.. the evolution has been pretty cool.. and yah for takin the snow backdrop down... whoo haa!!

Minwah · « **Reply #33 on:** May 25, 2004, 05:30:51 am »

I voted 'Linked from someone's arcade cabinet project website', but it was more a bunch of people's than one in particular. I seem to recall Google-ing and stumbling on various peoples cabinet sites, and they all linked here

namzep · « **Reply #34 on:** May 25, 2004, 07:53:04 am »

Found it by doing a websearch on google. I think I used the terms "mame arcade machine building" or something very similar. It's been a little while so I can't really be sure.

Ed ONeill · « **Reply #35 on:** May 25, 2004, 11:29:45 am »

I wrote "other"

I found out about this site from www.avsforum.com It's a site for people like myself who built their own home theaters. It reminds me of this site..... everyone helping everyone.

I was looking in the theater accessories forum to try to get ideas for my Home Theater lobby when I came accross this thread (I am the 8th post down from the top) :
http://www.avsforum.com/avs-vb/showthread.php?s=&threadid=291311&perpage=20&pagenumber=1

Btw You can see pictures of my Ht and lobby on my webpage

Just my 2 cents
ED

Psychosylph · « **Reply #36 on:** May 25, 2004, 11:58:14 am »

I voted "Linked from an emulation-news site," although that isn't exactly true; it was the closest, though.

I was at Sudhian Forums (feeding my SFF addiction) when I saw Crosscourt's post about classic gaming and emulators. I'd heard about MAME but had never tried it out before. As soon as I started it up for the first time I was hooked. Had to have a cab to go with it and ended up here.

Stingray · « **Reply #37 on:** May 25, 2004, 02:24:13 pm »

Google. At the time I was building a stand alone control panel. I'm sure I was searching for something along the lines of "arcade controls".

-S

slycrel · « **Reply #38 on:** May 25, 2004, 03:10:51 pm »

IIRC I found it through google, though at the time I was looking everywhere and anywhere for information on where to start. That was probably about a year ago.

However, (for the fun of it) I first seriously considered making my own arcade cabinet from the slashdot post that eventually led to 1-UP getting a new host. I remember that there were quite a few comments about that here.

crashwg · « **Reply #39 on:** May 25, 2004, 03:22:09 pm »

I heard of mame probably 1


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Author Topic: How did you find BYOAC? (Read 8389 times)