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Here is a look at my Christmas gift to myself. It is a widebody arcade, we used a 42 inch LED, and a quad panel. It also has PacDrive's for the LED buttons. I have a airbrush artist who is taking the silver spinner dial and putting Captain America's shield onto it. I will have it back next week and will post the pictures of the shield.
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I got the idea of a versus tabletop that is portable a while ago. The idea stemmed from me wanting a 'Coleco head-to-head basketball handheld' from back in day. This tabletop I want to take anywhere and play for several hours without the need of a power cord plugged into the wall. I guess I could get a older, cheaper laptop and do this and run most mame and 16 bit systems, but the only problem with that is, I wouldn't be able to run my favorite FE which is hyperspin. Hyperspin requires a more powerful-more expensive laptop, and I don't want to break down my new expensive notebook to do that. Plus the run time from the battery wouldn't be like I want, which is several hour…
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comming attraction....the U360r http://forum.arcadecontrols.com/index.php?topic=118265.0
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Started on a new sit down vertical cab yesterday and my goal is to get it done in about 3 to 4 days; spending about 5-6 hours a day after work. So it's nothing really fancy. The cab is designed to be in 3 parts; the base, the top, and the control panel. So on day one I started with the control panel.. DAY ONE: The cp. Simple stuff here. Zippy joysticks and Happ like buttons. 8-way 1 & 2 players and a single 4-way. These joysticks are great when using a wood panel. Nothing is better than glue and biscuits when connecting thin woods like MDF. Biscuit joiner not needed, just need the proper router bit. China made dual joypad has a total of 28 inputs, not bad for …
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Here are a few pics of my Cab so far. I have a dozen more pics over at EmuMovies.com: CadeKrazy's MAME Cade
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I'm nearing completion on the hardware side of my Hyperspin setup, but I'm still missing driving pedals. What I am looking for is a decent set of analog pedals (gas and brake), similar to the ones that usually come with your average pc steering wheel. Nothing to fancy or expensive. However, I haven't been able to find any pedals that connect directly to a usb port - all of them connect to the steering wheel which then connects to the usb port. Does anyone know of any such pedals? Either in a set with a wheel, or stand alone? Thanks for any help!
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I've been building on a bartop arcade recently. it's based on the plans of the weecade, but i've made it a bit bigger, so i wouldn't have to deal with space issues. And it's nice to have some space when playing with a buddy :-) I've got the players buttons. I'm still thinking about the other buttons. Does anybody have an ideal combination of buttons? I don't want too much buttons, but i don't like the idea of shifting all the buttons. I'm affraid that i might press something during a game. I guess a player 1, player 2 and an exit button. And what else?
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Building a new cab. Anyone know a good source of high resolution side art, marquees, and cp panels on the net? Or just high-reso images of arcade artwork? Thanks!
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So I was browsing the web in search of some decent button/controller layouts to work off of, and stumbled across this: The full size image can be found here on the original site.
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As I finalize my first arcade cabinet, I am thinking of creating a bartop for my brother-in-law (my sister won't let him have a full sized arcade cabinet) I have been following articles on the Ouya pre and post release and I was thinking that it might a decent alternative to a PC for a bartop cabinet. Has anyone else considered using one?
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Hello, I go by the screen name Apparishion, but most everyone calls me App. What started out as a misspelling quote for the word Apparition turned into well, a permanent call name since the last 13 years. Anne E. Way, Been a true "gamer" since I was a kid, bought my first system (Nintendo NES) from mowing grass and babysitting. Took me 4 months to scrape up $109 to buy it. Now much older, family of my own, I came across a video from Buddman's WesM Productions, of a Nintendo PC-NES. Snowballed into today. Many thanks to buddman for his unintentional help and inspiration. And also to a lot of you here, who I've never really met or introduced myself to. Gage Bad…
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Note for the UK guys I guess... Anyone popping along to the retro revival show at Wolverhampton racecourse 18th - 19th May ? http://www.revivalretroevents.com/ I taking my two boys along looks like it'll be fun... Extract from the web page: Over the weekend of the 18th and 19th May 2013 we will be launching our first Retro Expo event that we have called Revival. The event will be annual and will be 100% retro - celebrating gaming and nostalgia throughout the 70's, 80's and 90's. We have some great partners in The Retro Computer Museum, The Centre for Computing History and Attic Bug and together we plan to put on the largest retro only event in the UK. What will be a…
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hello i am martijn from holland. i bought an cabinet on the internet and i have fixed it. specs:screen 26 inch 16:10 computer:pentium i3 16GBram 2gb ddr 5 video and 2tb hyperspin drive and 500 gb instalation drive it works great exept one big problem with visual pinball,it wont exit in hyperspin,and i cant find the problem ill think in autohotkey ore the module.
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Hey everybody that likes to look at project threads ! I have a Nintendo vs super Mario brothers, it needs a little help, and I'm about to do a restore on this bad boy, but I really want to make it a donkey kong machine! Here's the plan... Clean, check what works, rotate monitor, fix body, acquire parts, install parts, put it in my house nice and pretty so wife will be ok with large arcade # 5 in the house So, I need help on a few fronts before I get started, 1. Monitor rotation (if it still works well enough to use) I looked several places and I can't find anywhere that has a good to do description What do I need, what do I do? 2. Power / parts that definitely s…
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I am thinking about adding guns to my cabinet and I know that the Aimtrak modules seem to be the best choice. To save some money I want to buy an already assembled gun kit since it has the casing for the LED bar as well as a module kit and gun shell. Does the module kit with the gun shell require any soldering? Cause if so, that means I'll have to get a soldering iron as well. I ask cause the website for the module says that it may require soldering, but then a PDF of how to do it as well as the page for the gun shell says no soldering. Thanks oh, and is there a simple way to make a casing for the LED bar? cause then I could save a lot of money if I don't buy the pr…
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One of the guys on my forum found this great story thought it may work on someone build find more info here http://emerythacks.blogspot.ca/2013/04/connecting-ipad-retina-lcd-to-pc.html
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After taking probably about a 10 year hiatus from building any arcade related thing I started working on this about 3-4 years ago and then it got put on hold for a long time various reasons. Built this with my brother Jon... we built 2 simultaneously so he has an exact clone at his house. Finally approaching the final stages. 4 player panel. Lighted trackball, spinner, all lighted buttons, servo-sticks for players one and two. Custom artwork by Vlad from Gameongrafix who did an awesome job I think. We didn't do any sideart but it may be added in the future. Still need speaker covers. Running Hyperspin as the frontend. MAME will be the main emulator with Commodore 64 a…
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I just got a great deal for fatheads, so I had to buy them. I am using them as my side art and so far they are sticking to my cabinet just fine. I want them to be a permanent solution to my cabinets bare sides so I was thinking about sealing them into the side of my cabinet. Do you think that by going over the whole side of the cabinet with polyurethane would do the trick? I have heard differing opinions on the subject. Some have suggested to use a water based poly while others just say that the poly will crack, get discolored, out simply ruin the vinyl decal. But still, does anyone think that a coat of poly could seal the images permanently to the side?
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I am in the process of finalizing my arcade cabinet. I modified an old TMNT arcade (in which that was modified into a Golden Tee before I got my hands on it), so it came with coin doors ready for me to use. I have a key for the first player coin door, but unfortunately, the other coin doors are tubular latch locks. I do not have a tubular key and I have tried the bic pen lockpick method, but it did not work despite all my efforts. I am in need of a tubular key and I have seen a couple being sold online in various places. It is my understanding that there are 6, 7, and 8 pin varieties. My question is: What is the most common pin used for arcade machines? I need t…
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Hey Guys, I was wondering if anyone was willing to post videos of their Hyperspin in action? I would like to see how fast and smooth everything is supposed to look so I will know how to tweak my setup. In particular, load times, responsiveness, emulator flash and showing windows when loading from hyperspin, etc. If anyone would be willing to do this for me I would GREATLY appreciate it. If not, I appreciate your time anyway Thanks!
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I just bought this racing simulator from a local guy. It's unfinished and not the greatest (but not the worst) build quality but was super cheap. I got a G25 wheel with H shift and three pedals, an old 32" LCD (no HDMI), PS3 (newest model) and a PS2 fat for just AUD$400. I was going to wait until at least the end of the year until I even thought about making a racing cab but this opportunity was too good to pass up. The seat is pretty ratty and it's set way too high but it's a good start. You were expecting photos weren't you? Sorry, the seller just took down the post so you'll have to wait till the sun comes up to see for yourselves what it looks like.
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They asked me to post this cab here as well (should have posted here in the first place, sorry). This is a unique cabinet I built for a friend. Thanks
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Wanted xtension mini bartop but no shipping to PR Need to find a good cab for tankstick without to much shipping ebay= 350 shipping for xtension mini wow looked all over the net !! No luck
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Thought I'd share my first ever arcade cabinet here. I'm a new member (hello everyone), and I'm on my way to completing my dream of having my own arcade machine, its nothing compared to the amazing projects I looked at on the site but I've learned a lot and hope to use this as a stepping stone for a future build. Both sides cut! 1x2 runners I'm using for frame construction. More framimg. Things starting to take shape. Starting to look like a arcade cabinet now. More or less a dry fit. This is what will run everything taken out of my old PC C2D 8600 4G Ram ATI 4870 1g GFX and I'm using an old set of Harman Kardon speakers for sound that I'll t…
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Decided to get back in the game; take it small and build a bartop that I had promised a while back. Starting with the Control Panel. This is what I have so far...
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