The NEW Build Your Own Arcade Controls
Main => Project Announcements => Topic started by: scoodidabop on December 04, 2014, 01:08:05 pm
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Hey fellas! I'm working on 2 LCD friendly cabinets for a friend of mine and testing various monitors/slg's etc... so watch out for that for all you that are display-spec-hungry. In the meantime I've been fantasizing about having my own Killer Instinct 1 cabinet. I played the game a LOT in '94 at my local arcade and always wanted one. Anyway I've been wondering why I never came across a KI 3 (Xbone) cabinet that resembled the original Midway builds. I think the promo KI cab microsoft used was a Viewlix and to me it just doesn't have the same appeal. The idea is to build (or convert) a 90s Midway style cabinet into a KI 3 cab with possible 1 & 2 built in via emulation and a video switcher. Here's a quick n dirty concept I did this morning;
(http://i.imgur.com/wVlxEEUl.jpg)
Wish me luck! This build will be a few months out but I'll keep you guys posted on progress as it happens.
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Good luck.
What encoder will you use for the joys & buttons?
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Good luck.
What encoder will you use for the joys & buttons?
I'm pretty handy with padhacks but have no experience with the guts of an Xbox One controller. Is there a go-to encoder for the Xbone?
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http://www.focusattack.com/crossbone-next-gen-console-pad-adapter-pcb/ (http://www.focusattack.com/crossbone-next-gen-console-pad-adapter-pcb/)
This looks like what you need.
(http://cdn2.bigcommerce.com/server500/d90a4/products/1076/images/4685/crossbone_xboxone_pad3__28305.1405451751.1024.768.jpg?c=2)
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That thing is funny. I guess it's great if you're not so good at soldering to the controller's PCB. With that adapter you still need a controller so I'd just solder right to the controller :)
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It begins! I'm starting to knock out the graphics now and in a few weeks I'll get going on the cabinet. I keep hoping to score an empty Midway cab locally - there was one a few weeks ago that I missed out on. It would be fun to have an all original shell but thanks to Jakobud I can replicate one with the plans on his site.
Borrowing from the first KI of course:
(http://i.imgur.com/w597Nanl.jpg)
Comparison:
(http://i.imgur.com/vtkq40yl.jpg)
Next up I'll be coming up with control panel ideas - likely using some UI and menu assets to match the game.
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No need to add anything, the Ultra Combo bundles of both KI3 season 1 and 2 have included KI1 and 2 arcade.
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No need to add anything, the Ultra Combo bundles of both KI3 season 1 and 2 have included KI1 and 2 arcade.
Yep of course! I think KI2 wasn't announced yet when I started thinking of doing this project. Maybe? I don't remember. But yeah just the Xbox One and KI Ultra pack will run all 3 games beautifully.
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I loved KI and KI2, but I just can't get into the third game :( I was so looking forward to this game and it was one of the only reasons I was wanting to even get a Xbox One. That aside... I think what you are doing is cool anyway.
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I loved KI and KI2, but I just can't get into the third game :( I was so looking forward to this game and it was one of the only reasons I was wanting to even get a Xbox One. That aside... I think what you are doing is cool anyway.
I totally understand your feelings on KI 3. Last year I really disliked KI 3 myself since the pacing felt boring but this past Christmas we got my son the Xbox One and he and I have since been playing it together. I introduced the KI 1 arcade to him a few years ago and he was getting better and better at that - now he's playing KI 3 at about the same age I was when KI 1 hit the arcades! So weird! Seeing a new KI game through his eyes and learning all the moves while having epic battles with him really gave me a new appreciation of the game.
KI 3 isn't perfect. It can be fun with the right people though. In fact I grew up playing the KI 1 arcade with one of my best friends (we're still great friends today!) and remembering dozens of people gathered around a KI machine in the 90s is a memory we share and relive every time we play the game. That, to me, is what arcade gaming is all about. It's such a shame the social aspect of public gaming (apart from organized events of course) is basically gone.
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I scored a MK cabinet over the weekend so now I have a perfect template to make my KI cabinet!
(https://scontent.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-xaf1/v/t1.0-9/11071741_10152682829017124_5571637256821190358_n.jpg?oh=821ec4d0d45ad433d13400b595f4d14b&oe=557D9E7F)