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[5-11under]

Just a heads-up that this project is still in progress, after a typical delay.

I've got my arcade controller nearly completed. Making the wood and acrylic box took a fair bit of work, and there were a couple of hiccups along the way. The wiring, however, was incredibly easy.

The spinner circuitry has been tested. Just wire up a couple of reed relays (note: they're fragile ) and a wheel with a couple of magnets (or scoop the parts from a Super Action Controller), and you've got spinner capability.

Have fun,
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[Madaracs]

Yurkie, on Tue Jul 20, 2010 8:39 AM, said:

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I did notice that Grayhill has some individual switches that can be connected together to make a keypad. Kind of pricey, though. I think I'm just going to use regular arcade buttons, arranged as tightly as possible, so they don't take up too much space.

I'm probably going to get this bundle, unless someone else has a better idea: http://www.xgaming.c...ks-20-buttons/. It's $40, which looks reasonable, and shipping to Canada is only $10 ($8 to US). They also accept PayPal. Player 1 will have a "keypad", while player 2 will not, so the 2 joysticks and 18/20 buttons will work out quite nicely.

Thanks,
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I have been thinking about building an Arcade Controller for the ColecoVision for a long time. My main concern was the keypad. I won a set of keypads on ebay last night. If I make an Arcade Controller I will recess one of these keypads in the panel, and then I can use original or reproduction overlays. I would also use yellow, red, purple and blue arcade buttons so that Super Action games could be played. My layout from left to right would be keypad, 4 SA buttons in a diagonal line like back slash, then the joystick. None of that left handed joystick crap for me. I would then wire both controller ports to this one controller so that it was shared for 2 player games. I would use the guts from a SAC and run wires from it.
Would be super cool to have a nice custom control panel overlay made.

I would get the arcade buttons and joystick from

http://www.happcontrols.com/

I didn't even know those keypads existed.

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Madaracs, on Wed Dec 1, 2010 1:42 PM, said:

Yurkie, on Tue Jul 20, 2010 8:39 AM, said:

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I did notice that Grayhill has some individual switches that can be connected together to make a keypad. Kind of pricey, though. I think I'm just going to use regular arcade buttons, arranged as tightly as possible, so they don't take up too much space.

I'm probably going to get this bundle, unless someone else has a better idea: http://www.xgaming.c...ks-20-buttons/. It's $40, which looks reasonable, and shipping to Canada is only $10 ($8 to US). They also accept PayPal. Player 1 will have a "keypad", while player 2 will not, so the 2 joysticks and 18/20 buttons will work out quite nicely.

Thanks,
5-11under

I have been thinking about building an Arcade Controller for the ColecoVision for a long time. My main concern was the keypad. I won a set of keypads on ebay last night. If I make an Arcade Controller I will recess one of these keypads in the panel, and then I can use original or reproduction overlays. I would also use yellow, red, purple and blue arcade buttons so that Super Action games could be played. My layout from left to right would be keypad, 4 SA buttons in a diagonal line like back slash, then the joystick. None of that left handed joystick crap for me. I would then wire both controller ports to this one controller so that it was shared for 2 player games. I would use the guts from a SAC and run wires from it.
Would be super cool to have a nice custom control panel overlay made.

I would get the arcade buttons and joystick from

http://www.happcontrols.com/

I didn't even know those keypads existed.

I ended up getting some relatively cheap buttons via eBay.