I made a little nostalgia project now my kids can replay my childhood.
Designed it from scratch.
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Impressive!!
That is rad, I have all the controls and a monitor ready for my build…probably 3 years on the shelf.
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It’s great, I run batocera on a mini pc and it works great if you want I can share the dxf
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Very nice.
I have a box that has all the controls, and speakers, but no monitor. I also have several sets of controls and different kinds of controls waiting for various builds…
Batocera is a good way to go, it seems. “Just works” is a big selling point.
Control sets that I have and specific games I want to get set up:
Trackball for Centipede. Maybe also a few other analog games, Arkanoid, Marble Madness, Tac/Scan…
GRS Flite yoke because Star Wars arcade ate so many of my quarters in the 80s. I figure I can make Spy Hunter and maybe a few other driving games work with it acceptably.
Double joysticks for Karate Champ. Not a popular control option, so not much I can really do there. Maybe Robotron 2084, but Karate Champ ate a lot of quarters, too.
The box I have now has a pretty standard arcade/Capcom layout, also works well for NeoGeo, so most games work fine with it. I also have 2 USB connectable arcade joystick boxes to get some 4 player action going.
I kind of think what I need to do is make a control board dock to be able to switch out controls relatively easily.
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I love the old games like Galliga and Arkanoid that’s why I have the spinner.
And there are two usb ports underneath for my sinden light guns for duckhunt and operation wolf and thunderbolt. Or extra controllers
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That is so slick very nice work !!!
I got a old cabinet and got it running and then added a swivel monitor. So it’s kind of a work station and game area.
I really want to get a track ball setup for golden tee. And some guns for Area 51 and buck hunter.
I did manage to make some spinners and a cheesy steering wheel for 4x4 off road. You can make one with a old mouse.
My daughter and her friends just finished battle toads. Man the kids love it.
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Yeah my kids love it to, they play anything on it from MK2 to operation wolf. (The sinden guns are great) and 1942.
Even mario kart 64!
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