Looking to build a supergun

Maybe I can help? need to keep mind off smoking !

Hey man, Maybe I can help. I can use this as my hobby helping people build superguns. Below pic is the very 1st supergun I build. Kinda crappy, but its a piece of crap Im proud of for a trial-run thing. But I now have newly installed yellow ball-top SANWA joysticks which make it look so much better now.




BELOW IS MY 2nd SUPERGUN. Its better than the 1st, but I would love to build a really neat one. maybe 3rd times the charm.

 

umm dude, by the looks of it that supergun has everything! impressive, just needs some designwork is all and youve got quite a quality product there..:thumbsup:

 

Electrical safety not included. :lol:

 

The all look nice to me, except they lack a complete encasing. :O Can't have all that stuff just sitting out.

 

Yeah, I wanted to find or build myself an enclosure. But moneys tight right now. But I do prefer to have it both way, SUPERGUN w/ or w/out an ENCLOSURE.

LOL as for safety, its all good. Just as long no KIDS are around & you know your A/C wiring. Yeah, i almost below my BED UP putting the 1st one together.

 

Thanks man. Yeah, the lack of design is just me, im not so creative w/ art or building cases. Not my priority !!!

 

You don't need art, just a sturdy plastic or wooden box will do. :O Makes it looks tons nicer than components tied down to a plank. The Supergun I'm building is going to be a very large box as it's meant to enclose the PCB it's playing too.

 

Dam I completely forgot about this thread! Sorry everyone with the sonic xtreme news and stuff it all went to the back of my head.

Well now that I'm back off holiday I'm looking it to it once more and may start soon.

@ shiny_tsan

Very nice superguns! I would be great full if you could help me out. If theres any good sites to get some cheap/good parts feel free to point me in that direction I will update when I have more time

 

Next week going to buy some boxes so I can make my Mahjong Supergun. One box to house a small PSU and the connectors for the video / audio and another box to house the Mahjong control panel. There is a JAMMA standard for Mahjong games.

I love hong kong as things like PSUs are very cheap. $15 for a small JAMMA compatable switchable PSU. Mahjong sqaure buttons for .25c each. 56 way connectors for less then $1

 

Okay bought all the parts I need to make my Supergun. Which is basically a JAMMA loom, a 70W PSU, an 8 ohm 10W Speaker, an xbox SCART lead, a IEC power connector, some spade connectors and some wire.

I decided that I will have a JAMMA connector on the case of my unit and then that way I can plug in looms to run games I want, specifically I can use the unit with Mahjong (which there is a JAMMA standard for) and JAMMA boards, odd boards can be wired up quite easily with a finger board and some connectors for the board. This is how most of the Japanaese Superguns are sold.

For the case, I had a NES around, so removing the gubbins and hacking the insides should house the PSU, Speaker and the various wiring looms. It also has two switches, I am not going to use the power switch to put 240V through it as it probably can't handle that but I will use a substitute switch so I can use the Power Switch, the Reset button will act as the Coin switch. Plus I will also use the Power LED too. I will probably add a Test button to where the Power input is. Scart will probably be a molex connector as I have a few of those lying around.

I am not sure about the joysticks, add those later. I have a perspex console cover which I will add sqaure buttons to and this will be my Mahjong Controller. On the loom will be a 10 pin connector and on the Mahjong controller will be a 10 pin finger board makes it easier to connect up and change if I need to use a different Mahjong loom.

Will post pictures when I start to build it.

 

I'm looking forward to seeing the pictures :thumbsup: Hope it all goes well making it since i know it can get a bit hard in places to get it all perfect. Good luck