Bespoke Cocktail with Rotational Joysticks

[digitalarcade]

This cab is totally finished now. PC installed with MAME and Maximus. On the vertical sides I have used rotational joysticks - this mean that for games like Ikari Warriors, twisting the joystick handle moves the gun from left to right.

Some pics:

[rberger3]

   Good work, love the design, very clean.  Have you though about cutting the glass so it matches the shape of the top?

[danny_galaga]

what sort of joysticks are these rotationals?

[nen10dough]

Wow that looks great.  Quick question, how does Maximus Arcade handle the horizontal to vertical switching?  I know that it supports both layouts, but is there a quick way to switch between them without manually changing the settings?

[Franco B]

Looks awesome mate 

I really must crack on with mine!

Im intrested to know what rotarys they are too, are they LS-30's? If so, I didnt think they performed very well for non rotary games, will they be ok for all of the vertical 4-way games etc?

[digitalarcade]

Hi Chaps,

Thanks for the positive comments.

I set the orientation for each game in in Mame32. Maximus then picks up these settings and displays the games as configured. In terms of the orientation of the menu, I leave that in the horizontal.

The rotational josticks are Happs -



and I used the Ultimarc controller:



Imo, they work really well. The trackball is Happs as well and connects to a Dell P4 PC via USB.