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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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