New Cabinet - Butler 2001


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Posted by Rockin' on 9, 2001 at 2:23 AM:

Well its home. Been working on this one for awhile. here are the specs.

WG9200 27" VGA Monitor
4 Player Cabinet (Old Golden Axe)
Custom Control Panel made out of 3/4" Finished Oak
KE72 Encoder
P2-350, 64 Megs, ATI Video, SB16 Sound
Cabinet is painted Donkey Kong Blue
Happ Super 8 Joysticks
Happ Horizontal Buttons
ArcadeOS & Mame for Classic Games
Aten 2 way Switchbox
Dreamcast w/VGA Box

This cabinet is setup for doing 2 things, Mame classic gaming and Dreamcast Games running on the VGA box. I have both hooked up at the same time, with a push of a button the display switches from classic gaming to a Dreamcast machine and back. All buttons and Joysticks are currently for classic gameing, right now for dreamcast you have to open the coin door and grab the DC controllers and play til your figers bleed. I goot friend of mine is coming over in the next week or so and we are going to install a "hidden drawer" that will pull out with the DC and controllers sitting right there, it will be above the coin door and below the control panel. This setup is really great, if anyone is using a U3100 or any of the WG Monitors that have the D-Sub 15 connectors and you have a dreamcast you can set it up too, it really impresses people when they see it. This is my 3rd cabinet, and my 5th project, made 2 stand alone CP's first just to wet my whistle. Thanks to everyone that has helped me over the last 3-5 years and comments and suggestions are always appreciated. Before you start though, the area left of the 2nd joystick and right of the blue buttons on the lest is there for a future spinner and yes I know I need to get the lights working on the coin mechs :-) Tomorrow is another day. When I get the spinner installed I will change the right joystick out with a FireTop joystick for playing Tron. This control panel while looking like a 3 player CP is really just for 2 players, I have the middle joystick setup for the default mame player 1 setup and that is what I use most of the time. When friends come over and want to play 2 player games I have a .bat file I run to setup the far left Joystick and buttons for player 1 and the far right joystick and buttons for player 2, obviously there is plenty of room!!! If I come across any 3 player games I will just right up another little .bat for that also. I am hoping to get a website up in the next week or so and when I do I will post a link and submit the project to Saint. Hope you like and if you have a question or comment again, just email me.

Rodney




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