JerkyCade

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: JerkyCade- 00.01 Early Beta Stages : : 10\01\99 : After dreaming about building one for 2 years, It is slowly : coming together. I will add more stuff when the money is there. : I started this project from stuff that I had lying around. : Cabinet: Wizard of War (I gutted it to make a atari 2600 cabinet : in 1985) It sat at my Dad's House for the last 10 years. : Controls: I used the snes pads to hack. It is the superpad controllers : made by Interact (funcoland for $5.00 ea.) I did not like the nintendo's : pad contacts, Interact contacts are much easier to solder to. : 2 joysticks 8 buttons each (2 are for flippers).It plugs right into : parallel port. : It will also be working with the powerramp for the rest of my much needed : button controls. : I'm building a 25 pin connector right into the powerramp for easy : disconneting of the control panel. I could go with the scsi connector too, : but I only need 8 or more inputs. : Input controls: DirectPad Pro parallel port interface : Version 5.0 : (c) 1997-9 Earle F. Philhower, III : April 19, 1999 : http://www.ziplabel.com : I've made 5 pc versions of these for friends and family by gutting : out multible snes controller splitters. : They are easy to hack and work very well with most emulators and with : windows. : Button layout design: From my 2 nephews Kevin and Greg, ages 14 & 15. : What better way, then to use a teenagers input. : They also named it JerkyCade. : Desktop art: Kevin, My nephew, The kid can draw, check out his web page at : http://kman.homepage.com/ : Arcade start-up and shut-down screens are from: The MAME Desktop Theme v3.5 : Created By Adam "The Quarter Guy" Lutz : Visit the Quarter Guy's MAME Info Page At : http://members.aol.com/adamica/arcade_emulation.html : Monitor: 17" for now, I will have the Wells Gardner Series U3100 Monitors : http://www.happcontrols.com/amusement/monitors/49083000.htm, : after the holidays. : P.C.: My old 200 megahertz pentium, 4 meg video card, sb16, 64megs of ram, : Ethernet card, 6.4 gig hard drive, running windows '95. : Speakers: Amplified AR's from around 1986, I've paid big bucks for them : way back then. They were not being used so I've sandwiched them into : the cabinet....They sound great!...more like a cd jukebox. I would like : to add a sub woofer in the future. : Keyboard draw: A cheap $20.00 Staple's find. I'll be spraying it black or : boxing it in, I'm not sure yet. : Spinner: I'm not sure were I got it, found it in the garage, in one of my : parts boxes. : To Do: : 1. Install trackball and buttons at bottom of control panel. : 2. Hack a mouse or buy Happ's interface for the spinner and the trackball. : 3. Shorten spinner shaft. : 3. Finish powerramp hack. : 4. Finish cabinet, marquee and misc. B.S : 5. Install new monitor. : 6. Snes pad inputs in the door, so you can play sitting at a distance. : 7. Bar stools, It sucks standing for long periods of time. : 8. Lights, bells and whistles, horns, pinball plunger,counters,coin mechs, : anything to be original. I love that card despensing post :). : 9. Build more interchangable controls, Like the rest of you nuts. : It is a endless project that I enjoy doing very much. : I'll fill you in as it progresses. : Thanks for the knowledge from all the pages and post that helped me out. : http://www.arcadecontrols.speedhost.com/arcade.htm Saint's page rocks and : I spend alot of time there. Sorry for not posting. There is an answer for : all your problems at his site. He posted my sidewinder hack about 2 years : ago (jerky2) Thanks Saint!! : http://www.ArcadeAtHome.com/ for his great frontend and great reading : on his site. : http://snespad.emulationworld.com/ This site is devoted to snespad : hacking. It also list all the emulators that will work with the snes pads. : Thanks to Dave and Atila too. : There are more sites I've missed, sorry. : About Me: Me,me,me...lol. I'm one sick dude. I've been an a electrician for : 20 years. I've owned about 20+ video games, most of them were sold or : trashed through the years. I have 9 pinballs and 4 jukeboxes and no kids : (I'm the kid). I worked at a seaside arcade from the ages of 14-16 and : I'm now 38 years old. : Thanks for your time, : Bill/Jerky

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