Build
Your Own Arcade Control Center FAQ
OLD
CHANGE HISTORY
1/31/99
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Added the Happ Controls
USB
interface to the inputs page.
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Updated the alternatives
page with reports of problems getting V-Sticks once ordered. Lag
times of up to a year. Buyer beware.
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Added banners for the EFF
and C.L.E.A.R.
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Added a capture of a discussion
about the use of diodes in home built control panels.
11/26/98
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Added the PC2JAMMA
page to the other-projects section (formerly
known as examples section).
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Added a writeup on PC2JAMMA's
use of real arcade monitors to the final
assembly section
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Added the HotRod
to the alternatives page.
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Thanks to a heads up from
Chippy (see next item) Benji York's SNESKEY
page has been found :) Updated to 1.63!
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Chippy's SNES
Pad Support Site added to the alternatives page. Must visit for
SNES pad want-to-be-users.
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Added Shadow's new web
page for his project to the other-projects
section.
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Tormod
has allowed me to mirror his text file
on interfacing digital joysticks to parallel ports - thanks Tormod!
Very interesting read!
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Added pictures of Jerky's
Sidewinder gamepad hacked controller to the inputs
page.
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Totally revamped the Other
Projects (Formerly Examples) page. Now 18 projects linked with
a short list of their highlights.
11/15/98
11/08/98
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Console
Cables is obviously dead, and has been removed.
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Revamped & updated the
Alternatives
page.
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Revamped & updated the
Controls
page.
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Revamped & updated the
Inputs
page.
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Added a review of the Pounder
to the Reviews page.
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MORE TO COME but if I don't
upload this now, it'll be another unpublished update :)
10/10/98
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Revamped the links
page totally - hopefully easier to use now
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Added a solution to keyboard
ghosting on the inputs page
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This update was never published
on the web :)
6/14/98
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Revamped the look and feel
of the web page. Feedback on
the new look encouraged!
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Does it look better to you?
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Does it make the information
easier to get to?
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Do the frames give you any
problems?
A big thanks to Tim
Eckel for letting me borrow the arcade buttons used on the far left,
and for other HTML advice!
6/3/98
6/2/98 - Obviously, the
pace of updates is slowing down :)
4/28/98 - Yeow, has it been
that long? Major update time!
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Added Parallel/Serial interface
information to inputs section
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Fixed a few buggy links
(Thanks Bobby!) and other html problems - please let me know if you find
any others
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Updated the Control
Panels page
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Added building a spinner
from an Atari 2600 driving controller to the controls
section
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Updated the Using Arcade
Monitors part of the Putting it all together
section
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Added a link to a great
site called the Digital
Museum for Arcade Cabinet Design and Artwork
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The MAME
HAM page has been updated - the site that gave me the idea for this
one!
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Added a keyboard scancode
reader/display program coded by someone who has
given me permission distribute it. Great for mapping out your keyboard
matrix!
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Added pictures of macgyv's
arcade
control project - awesome!
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Added some bad news regarding
Console Cables to the Alternatives
section
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Added update regarding Sneskey
to inputs section
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Updated the links
page
** Link in the changes below
this point refer to the old design of the FAQ, and will not function properly.
You will have to manually find the proper section via the table of contents
to the left. **
4/8/98
4/7/98
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Added Control
Panels page with pictures of real arcade control panels
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Updated Q&A
page with a discussion on keyboard encoders and ghosting
4/2/98
3/29/98
3/26/98
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Updated trackball part of
the controls section with more info on
the Kidsball
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Updated the input
section with more details on the JoySwitch,
and added the Joystick
Switch by CH Products
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Updated reviews
page with Btribbler's head to head review
of the V-Stick vs. the PowerRamp
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Added two negative experiences
with Act Labs' technical support (makers of the PowerRamp) to reviews
page
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Updated the links
page (Thanks to Jerky2 for sharing his comprehensive list of joystick
links with me)
3/25/98
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Updated steering wheel part
of the controls section.
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Updated reviews
page with Btribbler's PowerRamp review(link
to his site)
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Updated the joystick part
part of the input section with two methods
of hooking multiple joysticks to a system (not Y cables)
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Updated the keyboard part
of the input section with a link to Wally's
World's keyboard
section
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Updated links
page with Wally's
World
3/24/98
3/13/98
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Moved links
to separate page for speed
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Added changes page
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Updated URL for MAME
HAM (Home Arcade Machine)
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Added downloadable zip file
of Tony DeCosa's Joy Of Joy's project
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Updated information one
one person's experience building his own Trakball.
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Updated the Putting
It All Together portion of the FAQ
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