January 2004
Intermediate to advanced
348 pages
13h 33m
English
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Part II: Advanced Hacks, Tools, and Techniques
You will have several options for the controllers: you can build any com-
bination of joysticks and trackballs. You will want to install at least one
joystick and as many as three, depending on which games you want to play.
Two-player games and games like BattleZone will require two joysticks, and
games like Gauntlet can use three or more. A trackball will make games like
Centipede feel like the original. The instructions for this hack allow for a
trackball and three joysticks for maximum flexibility. If you don’t want to
add all of these, just don’t drill out the holes for them.
The surface of the control panel will be covered with Formica to give it
a clean look and make it a comfortable place to rest your hands when
playing.
The basis for these instructions is courtesy of Jeff McClain. Check out his
web site at http://www.webpak.net/~jmcclain/mame/index.html.
Project Overview
In this project you will build a five-foot-tall cabinet as well as an arcade-
quality set of controls for the front. You’ll also add an inexpensive PC and a
color TV set or monitor inside the cabinet, and then install software called
MAME. The MAME software can run under a number of operating sys-
tems including Windows, Mac OS, and Linux; choose the one with which
you are most comfortable.
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