Posted by Tom A. on 1, 2001 at 8:18 PM:
In Reply to: Opinions: Is it just me or do most of you spend more time messing with your cab then actually playing the games? posted by Agent Davis on 1, 2001 at 1:23 AM:
LOL!! My wife has asked me why I do this many many times. :-)
Not only do I spend too much time configuring, I sell one project to finance another. I started with a V-stick I purchased, then I built my own lap top arcade controller with 2 sticks, many buttons, Fultra spinner and Happ trackball. The beastie was too heavy!
I than bought a sitdown JAMMA cabinet and replaced all the cheesy controls with quality Happs stuff and of course I had to add another 2 1/4 Happ trackball and Fultra spinner. It was not fun cramming that small control panel with all those components!
I didn't like the limitations of the standard res monitor (mostly for vertical games and medium res games) so I sold that and bought a full-sized ArcadePC that I plan on keeping...my wife says forever. I hope to start working on the trackball installation tomorrow. I'm not going to modify the "stock" control panel but start from scratch. Tomorrow I get to learn how to use a borrowed router because I want to flush mount the trackball plate in the wood and cover it up with an overlay and a polycarbonate layer. -Tom A. : I'd have to say I spend more time messing with the cab. Hopefully that will change when I get it looking and operating the way I want it to.