Sunday, June 29, 2014

Barrel Update - Hardware Installed

My brother made tremedous progress on his barrel. It's shaping up nicely.

View from the top.

 

4 comments:

  1. Hi ! Nice work , dude ! I am making one of em too ! In Buenos Aires, Argentina ! I will send you photos ;) __ mtc@altapatagonia.net

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    1. I got your photos. It looks really great. Are you using a 42-1 board? Progress on mine has been put on hold for the moment because I started another bartop arcade for my daughter. But I really like your progress. Keep me posted on how it's going.

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  2. Mine only have 42 vertical games (in these 42 games i putted some games that arent vertical but i "maked" vertical ... like kung fu master , pacland , wonder boy and a few more and they look awesome !) Mine only have two action buttons per player , 2 start buttons (p1 and p2) per player and six buttons in the sides of the barrel (i added secret combinations that activates cheats , reset game , options (tab) and volume up and volume down

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  3. I used an old ibm pc (celeron) with windows xp sp2 (with taskbar,desktop,welcome messages and logout messages hidden, without mouse pointer -hidden too-) and advance menu (advmenu) with 42 arcade games (Not in a jamma board, i choosed the roms and putted into mame).
    I used a 4:3 17" lcd monitor (vga) , two speakers inside the barrel, all the games are configured in cocktail mode and the machine took 30 seconds in start, i changed the boot image of windows xp too, looks really awesome. I added 7 service buttons that not work directly, you need to push em making combinations (for example two buttons at the same time) to activate cheats, reset games, enter in options...etc ;)
    Now im designing a homebrew spinner with a usb optical mouse only to play games with spinner (like arkanoid) . I think in a month or two i will finish my barrel.
    ;)

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