My Idea for an arcade game

[ganonbanned]

Ok, I have a new Idea. Instead of using a regular computer or cabinet, I will
use a Internet-cafe type pc. Why? It already has a built in track ball and coin mechanism, and I got it for free . I will start working on this sometime soon, pics later. I have no controls as-of yet, and the hard part will be taking out the built in key board. I also plan to make one with a real arcade cab in the future.

Or should I save the idea for this and make a NES/SNES cabinet? let me know your opinions! thanks

Where'd you get one of those!!??

my dads work. he works at an athletic club and has had it for 2 years in there closet with no use.

[demonofaj]

alright, I used paint, sorry it took so long, but here mine is:




what do you think?
now, sadly, ive never actually played doom II, final, or ultimate. I plan on picking up doom collection soon, but in the latter versions of the game do you need any buttons not listed

and BTW sorry about the crappy microsoft paint job. the jump button is almost covered by the word.

I also forgot to add buttons to change your weapon. basically, under the start/fire/jump buttons, there are individual buttons to change your weapons.

These are the moments that make me cry. Guys, Doom doesn't need a mouse, you just move with arrow keys, shoot with ctrl, hold alt to strafe, press space to open doors, hold shift to run, and 1-9 are guns. Dude, no need for a mouse. You could go old school, have nine buttons on the panel below the control panel/ parallel to the back board, with ESC and such on it....just a thought.... ...or just wire two buttons for weapon select left/right...another thought . Seriously, this should be awfully easy...kinda. Just edit the system.ini, to automatically boot into the DOOM selctor program...and yea.

[Indigno]

If you make a doom cabinet, I really must suggest that you check out Zdoom or Jdoom. They are reworked versions of the Doom engine that still run with the original WADs. They add a bunch of stuff like full range mouse look, jumping, floors above floors (For custom maps that use it). Your could also use Zdaemon if you wanted it to be a networked doom cab. This is especially true since you want to use an e-cafe PC.

Did anyone else think of Gross Point Blank when they saw this thread?

[Dant21]

Since you are only playing Doom, and as an effect can't aim on the X-axis, wouldn't a Spinner that doesn't stop be a better idea? That would be much better than a trackball or joystick in terms of speed and your ability to react with it.