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Question about Plug and Play Ready Control Panels
Turnarcades:
Making your own panel isn't as difficult as you think electronic-wise, especially if you get a pre-wired solution like the mini-pac from Ultimarc, which has all the connections for a 2-player setup with a trackball and spinner.
roger:
--- Quote from: studmuff on July 12, 2008, 10:54:20 am ---I have had my MAME cabinet for over a year and love it. My control panel is an X-Arcade Tankstick. It's great but I want some more buttons and for sure a spinner.
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Adding spinners to the X-Arcade Tankstick is not that hard, I added two TT2s to mine a while back:
Adding more buttons shouldn't be difficult either.
Flake:
I bought a panel form ArcadeRFun and while I'm happy with the way the panel turned out if I were to do it all over again I would build my own. Between the cost and the time it took to receive the panel (almost 3 months) I could have built my own and had already been playing weeks prior.
I too was like you....intimidated by the thought of wiring my own panel....but honestly after being exposed to more reading and after observing my own ArcadesRFun panel it doesnt look that hard. The hardest part for me would be the carpentry.
At the very least I would simply purchase a blank template from one of these vendors (I think they run around $100 - $150 or so) and wire up your own panel. Even if you spend $300 on controllers you still save $200 or so.
studmuff:
--- Quote from: roger on July 12, 2008, 09:09:46 pm ---
--- Quote from: studmuff on July 12, 2008, 10:54:20 am ---I have had my MAME cabinet for over a year and love it. My control panel is an X-Arcade Tankstick. It's great but I want some more buttons and for sure a spinner.
--- End quote ---
Adding spinners to the X-Arcade Tankstick is not that hard, I added two TT2s to mine a while back:
Adding more buttons shouldn't be difficult either.
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Wow. That looks great. Maybe I will try to modify my tankstick. I have been considering just building my own. I have a lot to think about. 3 months is long time to wait for a control panel and I wouldn't want to wait that long, I would rather try to build it myself. Thanks guys for all your replies.
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