Might as well start posting on it since I have already talked about it...

I got a Showcase Namco cab a while back (thanks again AlienAgent!!!) and I have been writing down a few ideas... and now I am gathering parts.

Here's what I have:

- all the necessary joysticks  
- the cab
- aluminum Diamond Plate
- 650W soundsystem with Mission speakers (but I might tone this down...)
- hydraulics
- remote-controlled solenoid system
- plasma tube
- blacklight system
- sound-reactive lighting system
- Starchoice HDTV receiver


What I am looking for:

- a completely dead pin for donor parts (just the cabinet part is enough... no backbox needed)
- a 37'' LCD TV with fast response time or possibly even two if I get a twin-monitor Pinmame or Future Pinball working
- a Star Wars type yoke
- a nice steering wheel (could be USB-PC style or off a cab)
- light guns (but if I use these, I have to stick with the 33'' CRT and I cannot hook up the dish to it...)
- any old dead consoles with joysticks (I mostly need the joysticks... I can build my own ports)
- a frickin-fast CPU

Now there is NO RUSH on any of this... this will be my long-term project. But when I will be done, this thing should freak the living crap out of anyone... I am going all-out on this one.

What? No room for a bar sink?

Quoted from Monkeybug

What? No room for a bar sink?

That isn't game-related!   Although I can squeeze a cup-holder somewhere...

Quoted from Sparky

hydraulics

Are you planning on building a car hoist into it?

Quoted from necro_nemesis

Are you planning on building a car hoist into it?

No, that will be for the redemption "crane" he'll be building next ....  


Steph

Quoted from necro_nemesis

Are you planning on building a car hoist into it?

Not really, but I want to build a really cool machine before retiring from builds completely.

Quoted from Sparky

Not really, but I want to build a really cool machine before retiring from builds completely.

So how do hydraulics equate to "cool" in this situation?

Does a hand reach out and smack you upside the head if you f*** up while playing?

Quoted from necro_nemesis

So how do hydraulics equate to "cool" in this situation?

Does a hand reach out and smack you upside the head if you f*** up while playing?

OK... think of the control panel... it can open up, and once opened up, there is a gauge cluster on the bottom of it which now is in front of you, and a steering wheel raises up from inside the CP pedestal.

And on top of that, simply pull a regular chair up to the CP pedestal and you can tilt it down towards you in order to play in a seated position.

Oh, I was thinking you were going to use for some sort of force feedback system.

Quoted from necro_nemesis

Oh, I was thinking you were going to use for some sort of force feedback system.

No... that will be accomplished by electroshock.  

Quoted from Sparky

No... that will be accomplished by electroshock.  

It's been done before. Challenge Kill R Watt.

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