Ok so a few questions.. I didnt realise I had put it in the wrong section! as you can see only 4 posts for THIS forum!
( should have warned me fred! heheh )
Ok so the front end is ATOMIC FE.. simply one o fthe most powerful front ends ive used.
The pinball plunger is simple, its a dedicated pinball plunger system....... and it uses a microswtich that is wired in reverse..
Basically a standard micro switch is closed until the circut is active then you have the curcut closed for a split second and that registers your movement... either a punch, or a fire, or a quick left movement of the joystick.
If you wire it in reverse, the circut is open all the time until the level is pulled back.
I use Pinmame and Vpinball the way these work is the longer you hold down the Enter button, the further back your plunger goes in Virtual time. .. for arguments sake a .300 milsecond would only register is as a small movement of the plunger an d be a soft shot.. or.. you can hold it down for 1.5 seconds and be a full shot.
All i did was make it so that the microswitch was on all the time until the circut was broken then its simply a case of far far back you pull it dictates how long the curcut it open for ( or as the pc thinks.. how long you hole the enter button down for ) or whatever button you map it.
So its not QUITE.. a pressure system as in phyisically how fast the plunger goes back in.. but it does register as a genuine plunger would if you only pull it back a small amount it only registers a small movevemt..
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On a side note.. one funny story, the light gun from actlabs..for those who dont know doesnt come looking like that, I modified it stripping it back, painting it gun metal black , clear coating it.. and adding the computer engraved Glock .9mm.. for hat authentic look and feel.....
the 1st place i went to refused to engrave it thinking I might rob a bank with it.......
the 2nd place i went to refused to do it in computer cut but would do it free hand and make it look " good but not professional " I told him to get stuffed!
I found a 3rd place and I basically lied to the guy and said " this is an award we are giving a memeber of our gun club for getting a very nice scal model glock 9 mm ! LOL he was ok with that !
rob a bank..... please i just want to play violent shooting style video games
also another kool feature I didnt add in.. is ive downloaded the complete mame cheat dat file, and i have a hidden switch under the control panel and i can acess it through there.
ok other questions.. why no trackball or spinner?
simple....... I was true to what I wanted to build for myself, I love having freinds over drinking a few and having BBQ's and movie nights.. and I also love fighting games....
well..... I have a broad palete of games I like.. but in my original brief I wanted simply a fighting style, maching that played pinball games but wasnt a dedicated pinball cab.. I wanted to play alot of scrolling shootings... hence the flightstick and dual fire buttons so left / right hand combination.. ( and yes I realise its only a right handed flightstick, but im right handed! It can be held comfortably left handed for the other option.
I love Mortal kombat series, SF2 series in clunding marvel games, all scrolling shooters, beat em ups like simpsons, final fight , tmnt ect... Fatal furies...... all those classics.
Early on I didnt want a frankepanel, or a jack of all trades style panel.. i wanted something that I played alot and I could enjoy with friends, a trackball for the few trackball games like golden tee seemed pointless ( albeti i have all the goldenteew's in the sports catagory! you can use the mouse if you REALLY want to play it!
as for the spinner, again, it came down to personal shoice, i opted for a nice multi purpose flight stick, even place space invaders, or pacman with it is cool! its not just for afterburner! LOL
As i said, ive also mapped the finger trigger button in the joystick to the ipac, so there is one hand operation for those games that were just left right, shoot.. its very cool
so there you go
I also havent seen any cabs with volume controls built in.. sure you can acess it through mame control keys, but for the jukebox its nice.
I also custom built the speaker grill you see, and the speakers are mounter behine that ( which would be obvious!
I also made the marquee - which does have twin fluencesnt lights.. I made that completely dark.. no that doesnt make sense..
no light seeps out of the marquee, its completly enclosed within the marquee itself.
As for the Frontend.. yes Atomic FE is my choice, its simple, its good, it has the abilty to dispaly like mala, the games, in PNG or video format.. but i couldnt be bother downloading them all! why see a pic of the game when you can just play it!
Sorting the games was a nightmare.. ask "arcadefever" he knows it took my a solid 4 weeks!!! it was insain.. i had to play every indiviual ghame, work out where it went, put it into a sub folder, and boot that into atomic.. phfft! it was worth it in the end.
One thing i didnt show was the great loading video its got lightning and sort of etches the work mame into the screen.. it can be downloaded fro anywher ei think..
I also altered the windows boot screen, to have a mame system loading skin..
again these are all ready for download.
Thanks for the props peeps..... i will try to give out more advice, for others and be a little more active..
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