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o1s1n

Quick one for you lads as I've never wired up a kick harness before.

Buttons need to be grounded. I assumed I'd need to daisy chain the grounds together on the extra 6 buttons and then wire up the kick harness to the board.

However, my kick harness came without any grounding wires, just the 6 wires to go to the board.

The seller's notes say that grounding isn't needed, just wire the 6 buttons with the given cables

Tried to give that a go and obviously it doesn't work.

I'm assuming if I go with my original daisy chain idea it'll work... or am I completely misunderstanding how this functions?

Optimus Prime

In my case when i got my kick harness for mortal kombat and street fighter 2, i already had the 6\5 button setup and they where grounded as normal using a daisy chain around all the buttons and joysticks, so i just had to add the kick harness to the buttons. you dont have to earth them seperatly or anything to the board, you just daisy chain all buttons etc together as normal. you do need to earth them though.

i think when it says you dont need to earth them, it means seperatly from all the other buttons\joysticks.

CathalDublin

I would assume that's exactly what you do, just daisy off your existing 3 buttons

o1s1n

Cheers lads, I thought I was going mental yesterday for a moment :pac:

keithgeo wrote: »

i think when it says you dont need to earth them, it means seperatly from all the other buttons\joysticks.

Upon reading the ad again, You're spot on. Bit of info lost in translation as the seller is French.

On a related note, SF2 looks absolutely insanely nice on the Aero. I did go ahead and play a bit with 3 buttons. Many hadoukens were had

Optimus Prime

Cool, i had the same thing myself when i got mine, thinking do i need to do them seperatly, where does the earth wire go into the pcb haha..

Doge

VectorMAME running on a Vectrex monitor...

http://www.zektor.com/zvg/zvg_vpix.htm

CiDeRmAn

Doge wrote: »

VectorMAME running on a Vectrex monitor...

http://www.zektor.com/zvg/zvg_vpix.htm

That's fecking amazing!

o1s1n

That's excellent!

I really miss having a Veccy, magical little machine. Really is nothing like it.

CiDeRmAn

I must repair mine, still have to see about replacing the sound chip that also fictions as part of the IO setup.
Must talk nicely to Kerbdog....

chopperbyrne

Anyone know the exact name of this type of cabinet?

An Electrocoin ...?

Optimus Prime

Thats an electrocoin Duet, great cabs! would love one if i had any room left!

chopperbyrne

If I ever get a cab, it's the one I want.

Reminds me of Leisureplex Tallaght.

Star Lord

Dat bezel...

Brings back so many memories!

airmax87

Where is that cab ?

o1s1n

There are two on freeplay in Bray bowl if that's any use to you.

One has an LCD though

chopperbyrne

airmax87 wrote: »

Where is that cab ?

Pretty certain the photo was taken a few years ago by Unky Chop Chop in Goodge Street Casino, London.

eddhorse

Ok i need monitor advice.

I got my kortek chassis fixed by gunblade but the 26" monitor is shot, wont get any brighter, confirmed by tv repair man.

So i have a spare Sony Trinitron 26" but its widescreen.

Any advice on taking it apart and making a new bracket to fit in the cabinet?
I have its manual and i am aware of the voltage dangers. Just the bracket making part really?

Optimus Prime

I decased a 14" monitor recently to go in my cocktail table. I just used the brackets off the old monitor and drilled new holes to fit the new monitor with a dremel. make sure you ground it properly when you put it in your cab.

eddhorse

Optimus Prime wrote: »

I decased a 14" monitor recently to go in my cocktail table. I just used the brackets off the old monitor and drilled new holes to fit the new monitor with a dremel. make sure you ground it properly when you put it in your cab.

Thanks Optimus, the thing weighs a ton, so i thinking safety on that front too.
Gonna be difficult angle it and make bracket if you know what i mean.
I was tempted by a lcd but feck it ill do this first.

Any other ideas welcome

Mitchomagic

eddhorse wrote: »

Thanks Optimus, the thing weighs a ton, so i thinking safety on that front too.
Gonna be difficult angle it and make bracket if you know what i mean.
I was tempted by a lcd but feck it ill do this first.

Any other ideas welcome

You tried the adjustment on the hv unit or just the finger board?

I might have a spare tube, only recycled 10 monitors last week, but I kept a few tubes

eddhorse

Mitchomagic wrote: »

You tried the adjustment on the hv unit or just the finger board?

I might have a spare tube, only recycled 10 monitors last week, but I kept a few tubes

Yeah tried the HV unit and finger board and got a tv repair guy to take a look.

What sizes are they? 26"?

Mitchomagic

eddhorse wrote: »

Yeah tried the HV unit and finger board and got a tv repair guy to take a look.

What sizes are they? 26"?

Yep should have a 26 will have a look

eddhorse

Mitchomagic wrote: »

Yep should have a 26 will have a look

Great thanks Mitch.

CiDeRmAn

A quick hyperspin question,
I have a Jaguar emulator running nicely on via Hyperspin, albeit not using Hyperlaunch.
I had written a script of sorts to wrangle the key presses into something the Ipac can handle.
But the emu, T2K, starts in windowed mode everytime, and I can't seem to find any commandline instructions to force it to run in fullscreen.
Any one help me out?

Myrddin

CiDeRmAn wrote: »

A quick hyperspin question,
I have a Jaguar emulator running nicely on via Hyperspin, albeit not using Hyperlaunch.
I had written a script of sorts to wrangle the key presses into something the Ipac can handle.
But the emu, T2K, starts in windowed mode everytime, and I can't seem to find any commandline instructions to force it to run in fullscreen.
Any one help me out?

Is it the latest Hyperspin/Hyperlaunch build? If so, you ideally should configure hyperlaunch to run everything, as it has options for all the emus along with their settings etc. Makes life much easier

CiDeRmAn

Myrddin wrote: »

Is it the latest Hyperspin/Hyperlaunch build? If so, you ideally should configure hyperlaunch to run everything, as it has options for all the emus along with their settings etc. Makes life much easier

Noooo!
I can't go through that sh1te all over again!

Andrew76

CiDeRmAn wrote: »

Noooo!
I can't go through that sh1te all over again!

I would say just make your life even easier by dumping all that emulation lark and get a few pcbs you want to play :P, but that's probably not an option at this stage. Can't remember, did you ever manage to get the 2P cp sorted for Robotron goodness?

Myrddin

CiDeRmAn wrote: »

Noooo!
I can't go through that sh1te all over again!

Seriously, it's a lot easier than what's made out. There's a comprehensive set of instructions out there, I think they're linked to on my bartop thread somewhere. It's a mindblock thing people have with HS imo, the actual difficulty curve is a lot less that you'd think, if you follow the instructions step by step. Go on, give it a shot....

CathalDublin

eddhorse wrote: »

Ok i need monitor advice.

I got my kortek chassis fixed by gunblade but the 26" monitor is shot, wont get any brighter, confirmed by tv repair man.

So i have a spare Sony Trinitron 26" but its widescreen.

Any advice on taking it apart and making a new bracket to fit in the cabinet?
I have its manual and i am aware of the voltage dangers. Just the bracket making part really?

I made a wooden bezel for my old TV to fit, something like this

Would you not be better off using a 4:3 monitor to save the aspect ratios?
plenty of freebies on adverts, here's a 24"
http://www.adverts.ie/tv/24-inch-philips-crt-tv/7202671

eddhorse

CathalDublin wrote: »

I made a wooden bezel for my old TV to fit, something like this

Would you not be better off using a 4:3 monitor to save the aspect ratios?
plenty of freebies on adverts, here's a 24"
http://www.adverts.ie/tv/24-inch-philips-crt-tv/7202671

Thanks Cathal, yeah the 4:3 thing would be better but had that 26" inch widescreen one already from the parents gaff.
Nice bracket BTW.
Ah i dont know what to do