by Jethro Q. Walrustitty » Tue Feb 17, 2004 9:28 am
How about just building yourself a MAME cabinet?
Or, at the very least, buying one of those ready-made arcade control setups that they sell for about the price of your firstborn.
The plan when I get around to doing a MAME cabinet (which is probably the next project after the home theater is done) is to use USB joysticks for the actual connections and real arcade controls on the control panel. I'm visualizing the following panels:
2-player:
Two microswitch joysticks (switchable 4/8-way), 8 buttons each player (for those buttonmashing fighting games). This will work well for nearly anything, including Robotron.
4-player: Four joysticks as above, four buttons each. (Too crowded otherwise.) For stuff like those mid-80s fighters like TMNT, Simpsons, X-Men, etc.
Analog: Two analog joysticks. Duh.
Ikari: A pair of rotating joysticks, as used in Ikari Warriors and Heavy Barrel. Probably useless for anything else.
On a "common" area will be a trackball, for general Windows mouse control as well as trackball games - Centipede, Missile Command, etc. There will also likely be "pinball" buttons on the side and a pair of light guns always attached.
Really, if you want to play arcade games properly, you need to have a proper set up.
Regarding the poll: Well, duh, Defender is the hardest. The others don't come close. You'd have to put up something like Xevious or Zaxxon if you wanted a real poll.
How about just building yourself a MAME cabinet?
Or, at the very least, buying one of those ready-made arcade control setups that they sell for about the price of your firstborn.
The plan when I get around to doing a MAME cabinet (which is probably the next project after the home theater is done) is to use USB joysticks for the actual connections and real arcade controls on the control panel. I'm visualizing the following panels:
2-player:
Two microswitch joysticks (switchable 4/8-way), 8 buttons each player (for those buttonmashing fighting games). This will work well for nearly anything, including Robotron.
4-player: Four joysticks as above, four buttons each. (Too crowded otherwise.) For stuff like those mid-80s fighters like TMNT, Simpsons, X-Men, etc.
Analog: Two analog joysticks. Duh.
Ikari: A pair of rotating joysticks, as used in Ikari Warriors and Heavy Barrel. Probably useless for anything else.
On a "common" area will be a trackball, for general Windows mouse control as well as trackball games - Centipede, Missile Command, etc. There will also likely be "pinball" buttons on the side and a pair of light guns always attached.
Really, if you want to play arcade games properly, you need to have a proper set up.
Regarding the poll: Well, [i]duh[/i], Defender is the hardest. The others don't come close. You'd have to put up something like Xevious or Zaxxon if you wanted a real poll.