What cool projects have you got underway?

[Retroman839]

Fly wheel added to the mouse
Spinner & realy improved things 😁 playablitly to be had , happy with the outcome ..of this


Will try to interface it with mister next to see how it feels with mister ..

Then finish the break out cab 😁

 

[Retroman839]

On the bench tonight 🤣🤪
Good clean then Will wire this up and test it


Just one bad bulb ..
Guess every one is having led now ..
These old heavy steel shop signed no longer meet current eco friendly led energy consumption targets and avaliblitly,

 

[Retroman839]

Só it’s all done and working ..
Tested on groovymame

Naomi taito spinner & snk rotary pannel .. still got some cable management to take care of but it’s now hot swappable 3x usb cables only.

Will use a better usb to stick /buttons eventually

Using ultimarc optipac for taito spinner & a wizz rotary encoder for snk ls-30

 

[Retroman839]

It’s better than I thought it would be ! A bit of a dream come true for me , as I do remeber playing this on a cocktail cab in Cornwall on a holiday years back with my brother ,,, I honestly looked at it as said to my self one day I will get one of them .. you know I was like a lot of us
Just in awe of it!
I was only about 7 years old 🤣..
It didn’t disappoint,
Had a mad blast all day yesterday and today also . Heavy barrel ! . Too!
Omg every bit as good as I remeber even better! 🤣
And this monitor is just soo
Crisp it is doing the game justice !
Here are my mame analogue
Sensitivity & digital speed settings for the ls-30 that work well for me.

Ikari warriors

Sens digital speed
113 / 0


Guerrilla war

102 / 0


Heavy barrel

110 / 0

 

[Retroman839]

What I have noticed is ,

If you do not do a full 360• rotation of the ls-30 it will perform a little off, ( miss the first click in opposite direction )

But as soon as you do a full 360• rotation it is spot on! For rest of the time ..
Maybe I haven’t got my digital speed and sensitivity quite right , or It’s just the way the encoder understands the how many inputs of rotation are required for a full 360. I don’t know ..

 

[eccentric-nut]

It was a quiet sunday afternoon, so I had some free time and decided to check over an Atari AR board, I ended up replacing the voltage pot, installed a new 2N3055, two new 1000uf caps as these were the only caps on the board that were out of specification when they were all checked on the ESR meter.

 

[soop]

I'm currently waiting on a new part for my custom cab which will enable lightgun functionality, so I'm quite excited about that. I also just acquired a Fanatec FFB wheel, which works like a charm with Sega Rally 2 and Scud race. The reason I went with Fanatec specifically is that it can store different profiles, but I also created a script for a spring effect to use with games like Outrun, and it has a free-wheel mode for the Supersprint type games. It's not quite the same as a free spinning wheel, but it's closer than the Hori RWA wheel I was experimenting with. The next step is to find a 4 way Daytona/Sega Rally shifter, wire that up to talk to the wheelbase, and then create a panel for my cabinet.

 

[captainvark0]

This was prompted by an earlier conversation by a VACcer who doesn't have a huge amount of time to dedicate to the hobby; what interesting projects do you have underway that are cool but might be many months from fruition?

Aside from my work on taking Fire Shark to bits, I've got a disassembly of the greatest motion game of all time underway. First goal is to understand the POST. Second goal is to use this to troubleshoot the hardware. Stretch goal is to convert some other games to the platform.

What have you got going on?

Well... I have a fairly unmolested BAS cabinet... minus monitor.. it needs a 20" 4:3 one though and I just can't find anything at a sensible price. I bought a 19" 4:3 and it just looks tooooo small.

Finished a bookie cab so want the two in my bar room

 

[PAC-MAN]

Well, nothing exciting but it is something and the first time I've done anything Arcade related in over two years.

I was rained off on Friday and didn't fancy doing nothing so I started wandering around the House for something to do .

I went into the spare room and saw the GO7 Monitor for Missile Command that I rebuilt in September 2021. I hadn't yet fitted the Chassis.

' I'll stick that in the Cab ' I said out loud although I didn't really fancy it.

It's amazing how much you forget. I was staring at the chassis not really knowing what I was doing to be perfectly honest. There were wires all over the place and I couldn't remember where they went initially. Luckily, the monitor inside MC was the rebuilt G07 from Centipede which I stuck in there until I'd finished the MC monitor. So, used it as a pattern.

Anyhow, I got it sorted out eventually and played a few games......which was thoroughly enjoyable surprisingly! After playing for roughly an hour I walked out of the games room feeling super chilled and totally nostalgic. Happy Days!



20260122_113841 by PAC-LAND, on Flickr

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20260125_113447 by PAC-LAND, on Flickr

 

[PAC-MAN]

Again, nothing spectacular but installing the Missile Command monitor recently has ignited some inspiration.

I purchased a Bitkit2 in April 2025 to install into PAC-MAN, so I installed it at the weekend. I have one last monitor issue to sort out but I'm 99% there.


20260202_133246 by PAC-LAND, on Flickr

20260202_133317 by PAC-LAND, on Flickr

20260202_143440 by PAC-LAND, on Flickr

20260202_143543 by PAC-LAND, on Flickr

 

[big10p]

Nothing major, but took a quick break from dabbling with game board repair to finish off my audio probe, using a @philmurr PCB. Decided to go for a flying lead probe, and managed to cram it all into the small case by fitting a couple of caps on the solder side. Thanks Phil, works great.

 

[Retroman839]

Nothing major, but took a quick break from dabbling with game board repair to finish off my audio probe, using a @philmurr PCB. Decided to go for a flying lead probe, and managed to cram it all into the small case by fitting a couple of caps on the solder side. Thanks Phil, works great.
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Nice
job mate well neat 👍

 

[Retroman839]

Let’s try to make a multi ffb driver.

The mission is to test this
F355 set up ..
Then add a pc & ultimate ffb pcb ..

Then add it all into a sega driving cab .

This is aganyte uffb pcb

Then fit a multi pc in using one of these uffb
Ultimate force feedback boards .
Along with this

F355 expantion pcb


I didn’t have my phone at hand today but spent today cleaning crud and crust of everything



F355 stack had bad fans ( case and Naomi boards ..
Só replaced them stack all working good now.

Time to Connect everything up to test

 

[69er]

Well retroman! ….. you make out you do alll the technical stuff ….. when all the time you have a ‘real expert’ handling the difficult tasks 😂😂😂

 

[Retroman839]

Well retroman! ….. you make out you do alll the technical stuff ….. when all the time you have a ‘real expert’ handling the difficult tasks 😂😂😂

He is the master i am the apprentice.

 

[Retroman839]

Seems I have a dead motor seg 7 pcb .. Dam..

 

[Retroman839]

Also game booted first time ..
But now goes to network mode and is always master looking for slave even though i go into game test menu and set game asignments só single twin ..

Could it be the cro22 batteries ?

As when I go back in game test menu again it is always set to master ?

 

[Retroman839]

👍 ffb working 😆
I have a few stacks, swpped in a known good .
I only want to know my motor servo is working ..
This is the point
replace the stack and drive board , with the uffb aganyte & pc.

So mission one complete 😉
Nice to have a go on f355 after 4/5 years since I sold my delux. I’m thinking of adding vmu for ghost mode for f355.

I’m hoping that seven seg motor pcb is ok
As it did not have a jumper at switch 1 here

First two pins bent looks as though it’s been knocked off….
Will test it with a jumper on tomo

 

[Bods]

And now you can just run it on a PC along with everything else Naomi and Dreamcast, due to space and this is why I sold Initial D cab
I'd keep all the original machines If I could as well as emulated

 

[Retroman839]

I have my sega io
Now connected to the new universal ffb pcb from aganyte gameoover .fr

And built a pc to run the games

I just need to confirm I have these connecters correct way round then try first power on to configure pc to the steering .


F355 Extention takes the analogue connectors for steering and peddles