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Rotating Arcade Game Control Set-Up Exposed

Posted by simoniker on from the round-and-round-and-round dept.

Ant writes "Over at the 1UpArcade site they've been making a rotating game controller, including a normal arcade stick, as well as '...a 3" trackball, a Discs Of Tron-style up/down spinner, and two 8-way trigger joysticks.. [and] a genuine Star Wars yoke', all in the same arcade cabinet." Other interesting projects on the page include replacement joystick handles for 'Tron' and hacking a Crayola Kidsball into a MAME cabinet as a trackball.

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  1. i don't think its unfinished. by fireduck · · Score: 2, Insightful

    this site has been mentioned before (it was even slashdotted previously.)

    However, in regards to it being an unfinished product, the page linked in the story goes to the prototype page, which indeed is unfinished. However, going to the rotating control panels page, shows what looks like a fully operational rotating control panel mame cabinet. He's done with it, in terms of getting it to work. It just looks like he wants to tweak it and add a set of removable controls to one of the sides so he can play Terminaotr 2.

    This guy has serious skill. There's even a section where he describes how to destroy current game controllers (like a sidewinder) and reincarnate them as 80s classic controllers.