Been working on this fella this weekend. Disabused with the clunkyness of my previous supergun, I wanted something that was basically an arcade-in-a-box... A nice box. I hate having all the bits lying around like a computer exploded. Half the battle was finding an enclosure I liked. I settled for a 'Rugged Case' from Maplin - £20 It had to be big enough to fit in an ATX PSU, line level audio converter, the 310-in-1 Blue Elf 2 and the loom I was initially going to to a step-by-step but realised it wouldn't be showing much, so instead here's the holes cut to mount the PSU and vent out the hot air, using my trusty holesaw/bench drill. It's a bit off-centre, but never mind, it's not that noticeable with the grill on, and not enough to bother me I left plenty of length in the looms so that if necessary it can still be used outside of the box for any of my other PCBs And it all packs in nice and snugly I love those illuminated buttons from Maplin, this one is a Push On/Push off locking type for the power button The connections are 2 x Neo Geo compatible controller ports, with buttons 5 & 6 wired on pins not needed by the Neo Geo, for use in my custom sticks and games that support 6 buttons (connected to unused pins on the jamma loom as well). 1 x RGB scart with sound (passing through the line converter so it can be output by conventional means). The red button is coin. I reckon I've spent £30-£40 total making this, not including the Blue Elf (which was £110). I'll post a vid of it running tomorrow maybe, 4.40 am right now :crying:
:lol::lol::lol: I did think while I was building it there's a level of irony putting it in a travel case, when it would never actually get through security. I once got stopped at Birmingham airport because I had a Gameboy Advance and a bottle of wine in my hand luggage, they made me show them it playing to prove it wasn't a bomb. (this was long before you weren't allowed liquid in the cabin). The guy held up the cartridges and and asked 'WHAT ARE THESE!?!' as if they were full of narcotics. The GBA wasn't even that new at the time, I guess it hadn't reached Birmingham yet. SO yeah I can picture the scene where my box of wires and metal goes through the x-ray followed by me getting wrestled to the floor... 'IT'S A WHAT GUN!?!?!'
Heh, nice stuff! Hahaha, I'd love to see that on the tube!! I hate the term Supergun being used, anyway. Tell them it's a JAMMA test rig ;-)
I bet someone who heard the word JAMMA would immediately think of it as some king of slang word for a Jammer.
Great stuff bro ! Until I get creative like you, mine will look like this (quite ugly though): http://picasaweb.google.com/lh/photo/7gb_iXk1QbMQwN0Oxnme4Q?authkey=Gv1sRgCMuBmdKfnOzFIg&feat=directlink
Pretty nice job building your own converter PCBs :thumbsup: You've got the exploded computer look goin on though :crying:
uhm, where exactly do you plug your pcb into this thing? *edit* oh a 310in one......isn't the point of a supergun to use the actual hardware? Anyway looks nicely made
Evidently not in this [portable] project... However if you read above the loom is long enough to connect normal PCBs
Looking great ! By the way, what exactly is that BLUE ELF2 ? A sort of multi game board ? Also, does it fit inside the case along the rest of the supergun hardware ?
It's the black cartridge you see in this pic (yes it fits in the case) It's basically a scaled down PC in a case running a front end for MAME as far as I can tell with a standard JAMMA i/o fingerboard, with 310 games on an SD card inside it, largely the most popular MVS, CPS1/2/3 and some shmups and a few other bits and bobs CPS 3 runs far too slow on it though
Polish this up a bit, have a CP that attaches to the case and perhaps a flip up screen and you Sir have a very portable and sellable little unit....
Actually, I was thinking more along the lines of you producing a few for a select band of nutte... customers! :nod:
It would be nicer to get a proper arcade PSU as you can get them much smaller then a ATX PSU, then get something to sit on top and put control ports on that, a bit like the arcade prizes that computer magazines used to give away.... ftp://ftp.worldofspectrum.org/pub/s...inclair/Issue22/Pages/YourSinclair2200060.jpg
