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Thoughts on this idea...
ChadTower:
:applaud: Timmy!
IMO, four player panels are unwieldy and rarely are worth the extra space/loss of perspective from the side. Go with two two player cabs if you can. That way you can have a vertical and a horizontal monitor, optimize one for trackball and the other for spinner, and you have nearly everything covered well.
ahofle:
Well if you really want 4 players, I would personally find some other 4 player plans that would make the wife happy (or perhaps modify the UAII plans to your depth limitations) rather than try to hack up the controls on two separate machines to somehow work together. Nothing beats 4 player Gauntlet!
Lilwolf:
If you used two keyboard encoders, and set the keys specifically up... it might work pretty well. So you unplug a usb cable out of the back of one into the other... And the keys don't overlap... So both cabs would have a usb cable coming out of the back, and normally plugged back into themself. But when you want, you could have them go to either machine.
The video might be a bit harder. But I bet you could have a very similar setting...
This would allow you to have one 'weaker' computer that is ok for some games but not all of them. And still be able to handle the high end games...
but I think all of this is a waste myself... cool but not really all that needed.
I would think getting a good 2 player cab going, and with two usb ports for those times that you want 4 players you can plug something in... btw, I use 4 players very infrequently... Even when I have lots of people over, we usually end up playing fighter games.
severdhed:
sounds like alot of work, but it can be done if you use pc monitors.
cabinet 1 needs set up like a standard 2 player cabinet. make sure the video card has dual vga outputs and windows is set to mirror the images (same image on both monitors)
cabinet 2 needs to be set up a little different.
use a usb encoder, change the controls to match up with the standard mame controls for players 3 and 4, then configure mame to use the player 3 controls for player 1, and the player 4 controls for player 2. this way everything will function just like it is a standard 2 player cabinet, just the buttons are mapped to different keys. connect the monitor to a two port kvm switch. one input on the kvm goes to the second PC, the other input connects to the second output from the first cabinet. this can stay connected at all times if necessary.
the only thing you would have to do is unplug the encoder's usb cable from the second cabinet and plug it into the first one, since the buttons are mapped to the standard mame player 3 and 4 keys, it should work fine, then you just press the kvm button to switch the second monitor to display the same thing as the first cabinet.
if you dont want to swap usb cables, you could probably use something like this
http://catalog.belkin.com/IWCatProductPage.process?Product_Id=134172
it seems like a litle work, but shouldnt be too bad...the biggest issue is that you will have a video cable and a usb cable running between the two cabinets....other than that, it should be fine.
if I am not explaining this good enough, let me know and i'll try to do better.
(edit)
here is a simple diagram:
http://img351.imageshack.us/img351/2881/dualcabinetsjc3.jpg
Texasmame:
--- Quote from: Alcathiax on October 31, 2006, 12:08:42 pm ---OK...my wife has come to the conclusion that I don't have the depth to build a 4p CP
--- End quote ---
So, is she calling you shallow? :laugh2:
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