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Open ended help on question needed I have got a book on how to create an arcade from scratch and I am getting a book on how to turn a old game systems into handheld. I am doing this for three reason. One to make 5 things for me and family.Two.

To start a business making suit case arcades and three well I want to be more successful. Basically I got two questions but feel free to help me in any way.1.Is there anything I can add to the following concepts/ gifts I am going to make. Suit case art or anything.

A. Kunoichi rumble suit case arcade. Basically take mugen and fill it with female characters and change the theme to a kunoichi one.b.

Turn my dads favorite game ssn into a suit case he can carry around with him.c. Give an old school arcade in a suit case to my cousin john.d. Make the worlds first rpg arcade.

Yep in a suit case.e. Make a portable hand held Atari for my ant Dian.p.s. Another reason I am doing this is so that I can get qualified and start a business making custom consoles to sell.

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Building your own Arcade Cabinet for Geeks - Part 3 - Control Panel This is the third part of a multi-part series I'm going to do about assembling an Arcade Cabinet for my house. This series has two disclaimers: Software Disclaimer 1: There's all sorts of legal issues around emulating arcade games. This series of posts has nothing to do with that.

I do own some original arcade boards, but if you want to emulate arcade games with MAME (Multiple Arcade Machine Emulator), you can search the 'tubes. What I'm doing here is putting a computer in a pretty box. Hardware Disclaimer 2: Many folks that build arcade cabinets have a purist view of how these things should be done.

They will prefer original Arcade CRT monitors and more expensive, higher quality parts. I am more of a pragmatist. I also have no idea what I'm doing, so I've also got ignorance on my side.

This part, the Control Panel, truly kicked our collective butts. We were rockin', working occasional evenings and making progress until we got here. This took probably 3 weeks (a day here and there, wait, a day here and there) and was a huge hassle.In retrospect, we know what we could do to make it easier on ourselves, but you live and learn.

Custom or StockArcade Purists will say you should design your control panel custom, to suit your needs. You can visit a site like Happs Controls and buy the buttons and sticks and trackballs and what not, all to your specs. You can then buy a PCB Board that will let you map your buttons to keyboard strokes.

Ultimarc has one called the I-PAC that seems to be the standard. If you like wiring and customization, this could be a good choice for you. Buttons and Sticks the Easy WayHowever, on this project I was really trying to find a balance, and stay cheap and pragmatic but with an eye on quality.

So I decided to do a combination. I bought the Tankstick from X-Arcade with the plan to take it apart and install it into the original control panel that came with my arcade cabinet shell. Image IMG_0100You can see from the picture on the right that I attempted to make a trackball fit, but ended up sending it back.

It just was too large. Instead, I took part the X-Arcade stick and used its wood top as a template for my stock steel control panel. I took a piece of Plexiglas and made a template out of it.

Unfortunately this kind of acrylic is very hard to drill and I cracked two before I gave up. More on the plastic later. IMG_0116 IMG_0110Cutting and Cutting and CuttingThen, John and I transferred our button layout to the original steel panel with a Sharpie Pen.

We got a bit-metal "hole saw," is is apparently what you call a big drill bit. It's a 29mm hole, which is standard for arcade controls. We had 19 to drill.

IMG_0125 IMG_0126The drill bit lasted exactly 1 and 1/2 holes before it burned up. After the fact we learned that there are specific RPMs (speeds) that you should drill steel and we were drilling WAY to fast. I bought another drill bit and we got through a few more, but the drill press we were using wasn't strong enough to hold on to the bit.

I wouldn't want to try this with a hand-held drill. At this point, I had a choice. Spend more money on a drill and/or more bits, or enlist the help of a professional.

I went to a local "machine shop" and told them to do their best. IMG_0151IMG_0154 They thought what I was doing was pretty funny, but they sure nailed it. The result was laughed at on Twitter, but it looked great to us.

IMG_0152 IMG_0178It looks funny, like there's too many holes because there are too many! There were a few holes underneath the vinyl. Apparently the Video Trivia game had been ANOTHER game before!

However, none of the holes were positioned in any way that would compromise the structure of the steel. Notice the Player 1 button in a new hold intersecting with an old hole.No problems. Cost: US$100 (hired a pro)Cost So Far: US$231Now, we need to make a sandwich.

First steel, then new vinyl art, then an acrylic/Plexiglas layer. Sources: http://www.hanselman.com/blog/CategoryView.aspx?category=Arcade&page=2 .

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1 just a side not: I was thinking of making the ssn suit case have submarine like controls.

Just a side not: I was thinking of making the ssn suit case have submarine like controls.

2 If you are talking about Tom Clancy's SSN, the game that came out in 1995 or so (which is one of my favorite games as well and I just got done playing it again just recently), be aware that the "submarine-like controls" that you mention probably would not flow very well. The game is more calibrated to keyboard input and does not do well with either a joystick or mouse. Both have too much input and make the sub very hard to control; what I envision of submarine controls would be equally unwieldy, I am afraid.It's a nice thought but you might want to see if there is a way that you can "temper" the inputs to be more like that of the default keyboard controls.

If you are talking about Tom Clancy's SSN, the game that came out in 1995 or so (which is one of my favorite games as well and I just got done playing it again just recently), be aware that the "submarine-like controls" that you mention probably would not flow very well. The game is more calibrated to keyboard input and does not do well with either a joystick or mouse. Both have too much input and make the sub very hard to control; what I envision of submarine controls would be equally unwieldy, I am afraid.It's a nice thought but you might want to see if there is a way that you can "temper" the inputs to be more like that of the default keyboard controls.

3 This sounds cool but I have no advice as I know nothing about all this! It sounds like it will be as much "art" as it will be a game! .

This sounds cool but I have no advice as I know nothing about all this! It sounds like it will be as much "art" as it will be a game!

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