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XtraSmiley:
Well, like I said man, sorry, as long as you enjoy it.
First effort? Not terrible. I think a lot of people on this board can give advice to help you (such as bottom mounting).
Hey, keep it up, you only get better with practise. And again, I apologize if I came off as an a-hole, it looks 10x better than I can do!
CheffoJeffo:
Several years back, I found that I had a box full of various Golden Tee boards, another box full of trackballs and some nice big conversion CPO artwork for GT. I also had the normal piles of power supplies, buttons and whatnot.
At the time, I was being approached to provide some arcade-related goodies for the silent auction at a fundraising gala supporting the school that two of my kids attended. So, I figured, why not build some GT pedestal superguns that guys could just plug in to their TVs.
I did some preliminary design work based on the pedestal of my Dynamo showcase cabinet, put together an attenuation design to keep from blowing up the audio (I figured that killing the audio on some nice person's TV or home theatre would be a bad thing). I was getting around to researching the RGB converters when I started doing the math (the idea was to donate these to the silent auction and then 100% of the proceeds would go to subsidizing my kids' tuition) and decided that it just wasn't enough bang for my buck/time as opposed to just, say, cleaning up a GT cab from auction ... or just spending the time working at my real job. So I never ended up building them.
You might want to look into modifiying the audio -- it is easy and probably better than just running amplified audio into RC jacks. There is a decent "Build Your Own Supergun" PDF somewhere out on the innertubes (can't find it right now) that had a simple circuit design for that.
I liked the video -- nice presentation.
:cheers:
ArcadeDunce:
Modifying audio. That's what I Was worried about as well, the audio setup blowing out an expensive TV. Which is why I always plan to hook it up just to DVD recorders for now, untill I can do some more research on it
ahofle:
The thing I'm most impressed with is that RGB to composite video converter. That picture quality looks about 100 times better than the S-Video/TV-out circuitry of your average video card.
ArcadeDunce:
remaining joysticks got here today...along with remaining buttons..
How would you guys recommend we secure the remaining jamma boards to the cabinet? We had these metal/plastic 'tubes' that hold up the simpsons board, you can vaugley see them later in the video during the picture slide show, but they don't make them anymore, apparently. What would be a good substitute?
thanks :)
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