Should I be embarassed? (wiring)

[MKChamp]

I've actually had my cab completed for about a year but decided to get optical joysticks from Happ. My CP doesn't have much room and no place to mount the Ipac and OptiPac so...should I be embarassed if someone wants to 'look under the hood'?

[javeryh]

No, but I am curious as to why your buttons are laid out in a pyramid.  Your cab looks sweet though!

[MKChamp]

I believe the cab was a old final fight cab with only 4 buttons per player. As you can tell by my name, I needed 6 buttons for MK3...so the pyramid was the only way to add the buttons and have the layout the same for P1 and P2. I didn't want there to be an advantage/disadvantage for the 2 players. It actually plays quit nice.

The button layout is like this:

       2
    1    3
  6   4    5
 

[CheffoJeffo]

I've actually had my cab completed for about a year but decided to get optical joysticks from Happ. My CP doesn't have much room and no place to mount the Ipac and OptiPac so...should I be embarassed if someone wants to 'look under the hood'? 

My wiring job on my first MAME cab was HORRIFIC ... I though I was being so cool with wire wrap and swappable panels ... ended up as a disaster (a disaster that works great, but looks awful). After having a look under the hood at a couple of dedicated machines, I started getting better and my most recent wiring job is definitely WAAY better.

Your wiring job is much better than my first attempt ... but then I don't let anybody look under the hood of that machine.

Cheers.

[tommy]

I believe the cab was a old final fight cab with only 4 buttons per player.

Looks like it was a Streetfighter 2 CE to me.

I could never play that the way those buttons are.

[Clonedsheep]

My wiring looks horrible. I think it just confuses people because it looks so busy. The regular guy will just be impressed:)

[MKChamp]

The final fight control panel is a generic panel with the other button holes covered by the overlay...so that's why it may look like a street fighter CP.

The button layout isn't bad at all since most games only use button 1 and button 2.

It might be hard the first time you start playing it, but you can get use to anything!

[paigeoliver]

That wiring job looks GREAT compared to some of my early ones.

[tivogre]

Here's the wiring for my first control panel:





Not so much different from yours.... wires going to switches.

 

[dweebs0r]

Here's the wiring for my first control panel:

Show off.

-Dweebs

[MKChamp]

He's lying. I found the original picture before he 'cleaned' it up...

[tivogre]

He's lying. I found the original picture before he 'cleaned' it up...

 

lol