I never did get around to posting a few pics of the arcade controller I have yet to complete. I got a lot of wiring left to do to the controller board, but I at least have the wiring completed for the buttons, joystick, and led lights.
Inside the stick
Contruction
Near Finished
I been pretty busy with various things lately, my little projects on the side such as the arcade controller, Repairing a few pcs for various friends, some gaming time on the xbox 360 for a change and I finally am RMAing my LMC-1 audio processor to take care of an issue with the LFE out. It is tough to be without that as I have to make due to listening to the tv speakers for now. bleh!
In other news I am playing around with the newest beta of gallery 3. Its a total revamp of the open source software that brings it to the web 2.0. So far I like it a lot, now to just put it to use.
As promised, I have some pics of the almost completed arcade stick. Click them for a much larger photo.
Almost completed
The inside of the controller
More to come later.
Over the last few days, my brother and I have been busy designing and building an arcade stick for use on our XBOX 360 systems. We are using a used XBOX 360 wired controller, Sanwa JLF joystick and Hap competition buttons. The easy part of all this was just building the box, while the hard part was all the soldering work needed on to be done on the existing controller board. I think I should honestly write up my own guide to this as he guides I used out there left out a few useful tips that would have saved me a few headaches.
You are now wondering why go through all this trouble. Street Fighter IV is the main reason, plus Soul Caliber as the other one and some other up coming fighting games. The existing XBOX 360 controller is just horrible for fighting games. So we opted to build our own with the very same parts found in arcades. Hopefully we’ll have the first one completed for testing soon (assuming I didnt burn the pcb during soldering to badly ). I’ll have to post picks of the completed project as well. I know of a few friends who are interested in this.
So Microsoft finally unviels what project Natal is all about. Looks pretty interesting. I wonder how the general public will take it up, not to mention how will third party publishers properly take advantage of it. Come to think of it, I wonder how long before someone round house kicks their TV 