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Closet2MAME Arcade Marquee Library - Eldio's UK mirror site, Emam |
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Control Panel Overlay Museum |
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Cybercade Marquees, Sideart, & Other Artwork |
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Arcade Restoration Workshop Brien King's arcade website - one of the bigger names in arcade collecting and a must visit
The Basement Arcade One of the top 10 sites for arcade collecting - extensive links, articles, etc...
Chad's Arcade Several good technical articles
Ebay Coin-Op Listings Excellent to visit not only for parts/games, but also pictures of arcade machines and parts.
KLOV - Killer List of Videogames The ultimate collection of information/pictures of arcade machines. Over 3000 entries!
Syzygy Magazine New magazine for arcade enthusiasts, edited by Brian Deuel among a few other well known names.
UK Video Arcade Collectors
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Video Connection - a good source for hard to find components like leaf joysticks *review* |
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Arcade parts supply house - Warning, iffy sales/support, solid products. |
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Distributing
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A note on this section - I will never put up a link to a ROMs only site. Unless the owner has given permission, ROMs are a violation of copyright. Don't ask me, I don't know where they are. Don't forget the emulator support section for help with making controls work with various emulators.
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*NOTE*
Given up for being horribly out of date. Please visit one of the
emu-news
sites above to get current links.
*NOTE* Given up for being horribly out of date. Please visit one of the emu-news sites above to get current links.
The Top 50 Best-Selling Video Games of All Time
Links - United Kingdom Video Arcade Collectors Links Page
Links
- Randy Fromm's Coin-Op Yellow Pages
Links
- Don's Video Arcade Room Links Page
Magazine
- StarTech Journal
Magazine
- RetroGaming Times
Collectors
- VAPS - Video Arcade Preservation Society
FAQ
- Buying from an arcade auction - How to buy an arcade
cabinet at an auction
Their placement here is neither an endorsement or lack there-of. |
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BlackBox |
| Makers of a variety of electrical and data
components
ELECTRONICS |
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Fultra Arcade Controls (formerly Fultra Spinner) |
| Reviews | Sells arcade spinners, spinner kits, Tempest
reproduction knobs, StarWars yokes, steering wheel kits, more!
SPINNERS, KNOBS, YOKES, WHEELS |
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Genius |
| Vendors of the Kidsball trackball, serial
port version, including a pass-thru for second mouse
TRACKBALLS |
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Hagstrom Electronics |
| Vendors of a variety of keyboard encoders
useful for interfacing arcade controls.
KEYBOARD ENCODERS |
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I-PAC/Opti-PAC |
| Reviews | Vendor of a couple of keyboard encoders
& optical encoders (trackballs/spinners) very popular with the BYOAC
crowd
KEYBOARD ENCODERS |
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MK40/64 |
| Reviews | Vendor of a couple of keyboard encoders
designed for arcade control interfacing.
KEYBOARD ENCODERS |
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OSCAR Spinners |
| Sells arcade spinners to interface into
your arcade project.
SPINNERS |
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Wells-Gardner Electronics |
| Vendor of arcade and vga-arcade monitors
popular in this hobby.
MONITORS |
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Interact |
| Makers of the 3d ProgramPad
GAMEPADS |
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PI-Engineering |
| Vendors of the "Whymouse" and other splitters
SPLITTERS |
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QuickShot |
| Makers of the MasterPilot - a keyboard passthru
control interface
INTERFACES |
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Keyshock |
| Interface allowing you to connect joysticks
to your PC via keyboard port for keyboard-only games
INTERFACES |
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Kye Corp. |
| Makers of the Kidsball Trackball
GAMEPADS |
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PDPI |
| Makers of the Lightning4 high speed joystick
interface
INTERFACES |
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Outwater Plastics Industries |
| Makers of a T-Moulding in some 17 colors.
T-MOULDING |
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Hantarex
Ltd. |
| Video Monitors
MONITORS |
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Thrustmaster |
| Vendor of PC steering wheel controls
STEERING WHEELS |
Examples live on their own
page...
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Build
Your Own Arcade Controls Step-By-Step Guides
Our collection of step-by-step guides for specific projects, such as Sidewinder or PSX pad hacks. |
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Stephan
Hans' Hardware Tricks page
Stephan Hans' page on building your own keyboard splitter and other arcade control information |
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Stephan
Hans' Nintendo 64 Controller page
Stephan Hans' page on interfacing a N64 controller to your PC |
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The Control
Center
Probably the absolute best site for information on game controls available for purchase,they also have many other great sections. |
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RandyFromm's
Hands down the authoritative site on arcade tech. Degaussing, plexiglass, monitors... it's here! |
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Lanzer's
Joystick Building Guide
Check out the wood-working section particularly |
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SNES
Pad Support Site
Site with links/info on connecting SNES pads to your PC |
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Classic
Cabinets
A wonderful site with details on constructing an arcade cabinet shell |
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Gold
Country Woodworks
sells a plan to build an arcade cabinet out of wood |
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PC
Competitor Interface
Another build your own interface page for Atari digital joysticks |
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Arcade
Controls via the serial and parallel port
Stillborn site about hooking arcade controls up via parallel/serial port |
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A good general emulation site. Pete has a Joystick construction page that this link goes directly to. |
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Pin-It-Yourself
Project
For the Pinhead Who Wants to Build a Custom Machine (pinball) |
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Pinouts For Connectors In Real Life(tm) Index |
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Nick's Pinouts Collection |
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A
Directory of Sources for Input Technologies
A huge list of companies that make input devices and technologies. |
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The
MameRoom
A web site dedicated to building/converting arcade cabinets. |
Generally though, the vendors currently mentioned in this FAQ are great people to work with. Many of them regularly offer their expertise for free on the message board, giving away advice and techniques that could conceivably be costing them in lost sales opportunities. Whenever possible, I post feedback both good and bad in the reviews section of the FAQ.
The best place to get opinions on a vendor you're thinking of doing business with is on the message board. Also, I'd strongly urge you to do two things: 1. Pay by credit card - this gives you various protections. 2. Insist that the vendor not charge your card until the product actually ships.
Finally, if you've had noteworthy service - be it good or bad - post a message on the message board and let everyone know!
