New Arcade Machine

Post by **gannon** » Thu May 01, 2008 1:33 am

Well, as the title says, I'm building a new arcade machine (and there was much rejoice).
It's going to be a more specialized machine that'll be more expensive than my MAME machine (unfortunately

), but already have a few parts purchased (mostly the electronic related ones). This one will be made with mostly metal, so I'll be hitting up the scrap yards for hopefully cheaper parts.

WhatULive4 · Post by **WhatULive4** » Thu May 01, 2008 1:45 am

I hope you have a portable forklift, but that'll be one heavy machine! When you say it is going to be more specialized, do you mean the games are going to be specialized or the cabinet itself. Are you going mame or jamma?

Post by **gannon** » Thu May 01, 2008 10:52 am

It's going to be built for a specific genre, and within that genre, a few specific games. Won't be mame/jamma, but yeah, it'll be heavy. Making the design have easy breakdown to help move it, and most likely some heavy duty caster (or maybe even just wheels) for the base.

Post by **gannon** » Tue May 06, 2008 2:12 pm

Well, 5 days later and still waiting for some parts I ordered to come in. Found out my temporary mail forward for college which had expired was still active, so might take a few days longer to get parts that should've already come in

Looking at making the base out of 2x4s though, local metal prices are ..well, pricey

($1.5-$2 per foot for frame tubing)

Post by **Sparkfist** » Tue May 06, 2008 3:02 pm

So this isn't the pinball machine you mentioned at the MGC?

Post by **bicostp** » Tue May 06, 2008 3:14 pm

You could use a shopping cart as the chassis, they're pretty sturdy.

Post by **gannon** » Tue May 06, 2008 4:31 pm

Nah, the pinball machine is just not working (old one from the 70s). As far as shopping carts go, it'd take quite the modification and a few of them to work

Post by **gannon** » Fri May 09, 2008 7:00 pm

So, got more of the parts. This arcade will be based off of a V1.3 xbox.
I'll be, hopefully, wiring up the following circuit tonight if I can find the transistors.

Post by **gannon** » Sat May 17, 2008 9:44 pm

Well, got the modifications done to the schematic.

Now that's built and installed (albeit not fully working, AND gate functioning more like an OR gate, just built it off of the old design, so probably screwed something up while soldering

)
I started moving on to the next modification. Because I'm tired of messing around with discrete circuitry already I think I'll use a small PIC

Going to basically have a button press trigger a relay 10 times over a 10-15 second interval.

Got a composite to vga adapter today, doesn't seem to improve the quality, but I want to use an LCD for this and it's way cheaper to use that and a LCD than getting a LCD TV

Post by **gannon** » Tue May 20, 2008 5:04 pm

Got a few more things in so started some more hardware work. Too much for a mic/headset maybe?

Should take a break to get a hair cut

And if anyone is *that* interested in what this project will be, index pages can be great

Edit: and wow...4 posts in a row...

Zeguna · Post by **Zeguna** » Mon May 26, 2008 9:11 am

Is this gonna be a Steel Battalion cab?

Post by **gannon** » Mon May 26, 2008 4:23 pm

Yep

Trying to decide on the dimensions before I start building the base, not sure if I'll be using a bucket seat or some other chair in the unit. Trying to find my standoffs currently for mounting the electronics.

Zeguna · Post by **Zeguna** » Mon May 26, 2008 6:37 pm

Sweet. I guessed because I have the same idea kicking around in my head.

Post by **gannon** » Thu Jun 12, 2008 9:18 am

Gah! Was making hardware progress when egress happened!

Fixed it, but got me a bit worried

jeroen · Post by **jeroen** » Wed Jun 25, 2008 3:58 pm

Haha love how you fixed it