The NEW Build Your Own Arcade Controls
Main => Project Announcements => Topic started by: MKChamp on July 21, 2005, 01:42:25 pm
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I've actually had my cab completed for about a year but decided to get optical joysticks from Happ. My CP doesn't have much room and no place to mount the Ipac and OptiPac so...should I be embarassed if someone wants to 'look under the hood'?
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No, but I am curious as to why your buttons are laid out in a pyramid. Your cab looks sweet though!
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I believe the cab was a old final fight cab with only 4 buttons per player. As you can tell by my name, I needed 6 buttons for MK3...so the pyramid was the only way to add the buttons and have the layout the same for P1 and P2. I didn't want there to be an advantage/disadvantage for the 2 players. It actually plays quit nice.
The button layout is like this:
2
1 3
6 4 5
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I've actually had my cab completed for about a year but decided to get optical joysticks from Happ. My CP doesn't have much room and no place to mount the Ipac and OptiPac so...should I be embarassed if someone wants to 'look under the hood'? :)
My wiring job on my first MAME cab was HORRIFIC ... I though I was being so cool with wire wrap and swappable panels ... ended up as a disaster (a disaster that works great, but looks awful). After having a look under the hood at a couple of dedicated machines, I started getting better and my most recent wiring job is definitely WAAY better.
Your wiring job is much better than my first attempt ... but then I don't let anybody look under the hood of that machine.
Cheers.
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I believe the cab was a old final fight cab with only 4 buttons per player.
Looks like it was a Streetfighter 2 CE to me.
I could never play that the way those buttons are.
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My wiring looks horrible. I think it just confuses people because it looks so busy. The regular guy will just be impressed:)
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The final fight control panel is a generic panel with the other button holes covered by the overlay...so that's why it may look like a street fighter CP.
The button layout isn't bad at all since most games only use button 1 and button 2.
It might be hard the first time you start playing it, but you can get use to anything!
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That wiring job looks GREAT compared to some of my early ones.
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Here's the wiring for my first control panel:
(http://www.ogredog.com/images/MAME%20CP%20Construction/Wiring/Wiring%20-%20All%20Wiring%20Installed.jpg)
(http://www.ogredog.com/images/MAME%20CP%20Construction/Wiring/Wiring%20-%20P4%20Wiring%20Installed%20-%20Very%20Close-Up.jpg)
Not so much different from yours.... wires going to switches.
;D
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Here's the wiring for my first control panel:
(http://www.ogredog.com/images/MAME%20CP%20Construction/Wiring/Wiring%20-%20All%20Wiring%20Installed.jpg)
Show off.
-Dweebs
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He's lying. I found the original picture before he 'cleaned' it up...
(http://home.comcast.net/~j.hibbs/installed.jpg)
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He's lying. I found the original picture before he 'cleaned' it up...
(http://home.comcast.net/~j.hibbs/installed.jpg)
;D
lol