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**AnalogRocks** · Posted: Tue Jun 05, 2007 12:45 am Post subject:

Ok, so you have a foot fettish. Me I'm bi-um lingual. Yeah. I speak inches and feet. And sometimes someone wants to use metric.

**AnalogRocks** · Posted: Tue Jul 10, 2007 7:55 am Post subject:

I had a real arcade machine fall into my lap. Some one dumped one outside a friends shop. SO I'm going to hack the control pannel into two and remount all the buttons and yep, paint it black.

I'm giving one to my friend Drew. He's be wanting to build one for 5 years or so, so I'll get him started.

Do you have any game pad recommendations to wire the real sticks to?

Skylooker · Joined: 30 Nov 2006 Posts: 33 Location: Demotte, IN

I use the i-pac keyboard emulator. It has great software and is easy to setup. Check their website(http://www.ultimarc.com)

MIKE

SKG · Joined: 31 May 2007 Posts: 14 Location: Sydney, Australia

Here are a few of mine games:

And my fav (that I built from the ground up)

Got about another 5 or so, and 2 pinballs

Steve

**AnalogRocks** · Posted: Wed Jul 11, 2007 4:06 am Post subject:

Brian Hampton · Joined: 22 Apr 2006 Posts: 1173

I've wanted to build one for years.

Last year I went to a garage sale in a barn and noticed several arcade machines. I was working a deal to trade the washer and dryer left behind from the previous owners of this house for a ALIENS cabinet but the deal fell through.

These days I realize it would be a $500 project, or quite likely more, and I would rather just save for a spare green tube.

I consider building something with my old Dreamcast though...I just can't decide what. I've got lots of games for it and the fishing controller and the mouse and keyboard for first person shooters or Typing of the Dead. It's fun when I drag it all out but it spends most days in a box under the basement stairs.

=Brian

Joust · Posted: Wed Jul 11, 2007 8:48 pm Post subject:

if you look, you will find them for free. Lots of guys have old ones that they can't sell and just don't have the heart to destroy. I'd be glad to give you one. Smile

you can build one for next to nothing.
an old PC. large monitors are cheap now.
you can hack a keyboard to make the interface or use game pads.

**AnalogRocks** · Posted: Thu Jul 12, 2007 6:21 am Post subject:

Oh yeah. I could just get a $5 keyboard and solder directly to that. ( slaps forhead ) Yeah that's a better idea. Thank's Joust.

mikeryan · Joined: 12 Nov 2008 Posts: 47 Location: Surrey

Always loved street fighter 2 Joust would you have that? I would love to try to hook it up to the pj.

akajester · Joined: 09 Jul 2008 Posts: 934 Location: Wisconsin

dochlywd · Posted: Sun May 03, 2009 3:57 pm Post subject:

I never built the arcade machine. What I did was land a 2 player control panel on the BAY for $100.00. I then made a pedestal to attach it to. THen I just hung a 20" LCD monitor on the wall. The computer is located in the pedestal so you can't see it. I kind of lost interest, but still plan to find a 40" flat screen with a pixel out or something on the cheap to replace the 20". I also plan to install a VGA wall jack so I can clean up the wires. I got the original idea from the old style Best Buy stores that had the audio control panel in the middle of the room and wanted to do a rear projection set up for it but you know how that goes...........time is scarce and there are more important things to get done.

I still need to get the graphics on the pedestal.

Doc

**AnalogRocks** · Posted: Sun May 03, 2009 5:10 pm Post subject:

I had a temp setup using a logitech I think it was. No pic's though. I had a 19" CRT on its side with a PII playing all sorts of games. I dismantaled it. I'll reassemble it one day.

Ironman1965 · Joined: 28 Jun 2007 Posts: 98

I built a full size upright a few years back for the kids. Used 3/4" OSB. Custom designed a control panel with 4-8 way sticks, 1-4 way stick, 1 track ball and a home made spinner using a VCR head for the shaft/flywheel a custom encoder disc and an old ball mouse hacked to read the encoder (each control having it's own set of buttons). I also used an Ipaq and can't recommend it enough. If you make a multi function control panel it makes wiring much easier and trust me the wiring can be a large job. My control panel took 2-3 times longer to make than the entire cabinet. I used a ATI video card with composite/S-Video out and connected it to a 27" Sony TV. The system worked great until a HDD failure and I just haven't had the time to rebuild the system. I did however re-design the entire cabinet to have a 3 sided rotate-able control panel, 1 side for spinners, 1 side for track balls and 1 side for joy sticks. The control panel is attached to the cabinet with arms that allow it to be lifted up over the cabinet exposing the driving cockpit. I dubbed it "RoboCade" as it looks like (from a side view) it came straight out of one of the Robo Cop or Aliens movies. It's about 95% complete on the engineering. All that is left is the design of the locking devices for the pivot points and hydraulic lift assist for the lift of the control panel and of course the routing of the wiring through the pivot points. Here's a couple images of the WIP...

greg_mitch · Joined: 03 May 2006 Posts: 5320

nettwerkjohn · Posted: Fri Feb 03, 2012 9:10 am Post subject:

joust

do you have original rom boards? i'd love to get my hands on a xevious or a joust... (i clocked joust as a teenager.....) Wink

Joust · Posted: Fri Feb 03, 2012 12:37 pm Post subject:

Yes I do. thats how I run my Joust machine legally.

nettwerkjohn · Posted: Mon Feb 06, 2012 4:18 am Post subject:

feel like selling one?