I can get long winded, skip ahead if you don't want to hear me babble...
When I was a kid my dad bought a pool table, and with the table came a full sized arcade game. I don't remember the game, something terrible probably...But the thing was so badass I loved it...Unfortunately it didn't work, and the video would mess up shorterly after you started playing.
My parents ended up throwing it away and I was sad.
Fast forward 10 years or so and I'm sitting here playing SNES games on my PC when I had a though:
I have a spare old PC, its a piece and it runs win 98 BUT it can handle SNES games? (its gotta?)
I think it would be utterly bad ass to have a mini arcade that could sit on a table, and has every SNES game ever...
I figure I could use MDF like people use for sub boxes, and it wouldn't cost too much. An old CRT I could probably get for free to cheap...
THE POINT:
so that really only leaves the controller.
I think 2 are necessary...is there anything CHEAP, with big buttons and a big arcade like joystick?
One idea I had (that I kind of like just from the project side of it) is to just take apart the old keyboard I have. Its a spare and it would be no big deal if it was ruined. Opening it up it makes sense...I haven't done any modding of electronics before but now is as good of a time as any to start...Would this be that hard? How many simulations inputs can a keyboard have?
Karma for
A.) info on molesting keyboards
B.) Links to dirt cheap Arcade style game pads
C.) Places to buy individual controller components that sells to the public. As in big buttons that can be rewired as a key press, and ESPECIALLY and on/of 8 position joystick like you see on arcades.
Another concern is that the machine runs windows 98...so drivers? If switching it to linux would solve this I would learn what it takes.
Thinking along the lines of this:
But smaller.
When I was a kid my dad bought a pool table, and with the table came a full sized arcade game. I don't remember the game, something terrible probably...But the thing was so badass I loved it...Unfortunately it didn't work, and the video would mess up shorterly after you started playing.
My parents ended up throwing it away and I was sad.
Fast forward 10 years or so and I'm sitting here playing SNES games on my PC when I had a though:
I have a spare old PC, its a piece and it runs win 98 BUT it can handle SNES games? (its gotta?)
I think it would be utterly bad ass to have a mini arcade that could sit on a table, and has every SNES game ever...
I figure I could use MDF like people use for sub boxes, and it wouldn't cost too much. An old CRT I could probably get for free to cheap...
THE POINT:
so that really only leaves the controller.
I think 2 are necessary...is there anything CHEAP, with big buttons and a big arcade like joystick?
One idea I had (that I kind of like just from the project side of it) is to just take apart the old keyboard I have. Its a spare and it would be no big deal if it was ruined. Opening it up it makes sense...I haven't done any modding of electronics before but now is as good of a time as any to start...Would this be that hard? How many simulations inputs can a keyboard have?
Karma for
A.) info on molesting keyboards
B.) Links to dirt cheap Arcade style game pads
C.) Places to buy individual controller components that sells to the public. As in big buttons that can be rewired as a key press, and ESPECIALLY and on/of 8 position joystick like you see on arcades.
Another concern is that the machine runs windows 98...so drivers? If switching it to linux would solve this I would learn what it takes.
Thinking along the lines of this:
But smaller.
