/diy/ - Do It Yourself

Lizardlick and Akihabarashop are your best friends.

I'm from /v/ , /m/, and /cgl/!

My next project is going to be to take a Q4 and swap the buttons and art out. Followed by my Setsuna F Seiei cosplay.

My specialty is roofing.

Can we fix it? No it's fucked (both Bob and K-On variations.)

I don't think so Tim

>>15238
Well, weekly then. I mean Mame cabs are pretty fun to make, and who doesn't love some old arcade vidya? Even if you don't play it, it's still one hell of a decoration piece. Same goes for custom / modded arcade sticks too. Expensive but not that much, cool decoration piece, and hell, you can show off your work to all the con game room people, your friends who come over for vidya, or use it if you're getting into the fight scene.

>>15202
Pac-Man cabs are really old, and if I had to assume, use a four way lever system instead of an eight way gate as most other arcades do. This is just me assuming though, you're more likely to get what you want if you find an old Namco cabinet as a base.

Also this thread makes me contemplate if we should start having Custom Arcade Stick and MAME Cab Generals.

>>15122
Because if he were to do it there, he'd get fucking flooded with PT , drama, and threads about how people's days were. And then there's tripfag circlejerking..


Anyways, that aside ; OP, May I suggest looking into the blue prints of a Child's Car? Those look to be in rough shape of what you might be looking at.


Or you could build it around a Trike.

>>14958
>what cunts.

He's still my bro, like we hang out at conventions and shit (albeit we go our seperate paths) but there's two things we don't talk about. That incident, and how much of a bitch my ex is.

Guy knows how much of a prick he was lol. but OMG that sounds horribad, what's your rig like now?

>>14325
I'm new to sewing too! How much does it usually cost you in materials? I got two industrial strength sewing machines sitting in the living room, and one of them was just oiled, so.. I'm willing to learn some basic stuff before moving on.

Oh god. So much drama over the first (and current) desktop I built.

My best buddy was supposed to help me build it, but spent his fat ass playing Monster Hunter the whole god damn time, and his brother was being super fucking lazy. His brother knew more about building PC's than both of us did at the same time and his best advise was simply to just "follow the instructions." Motherfucker made me think I fried my own motherboard building that thing, and my best buddy was just... really being lazy. Both of them pretty much haggling me to get out of their basement (since my house had literally no place for me to store my PC in at the time) after like a day, and pretty much telling me I just wasted a fuck ton of money.

Anyways, turns out the motherboard had no onboard graphics card, so I could'nt tell if the PC was booting or not, since it couldn't READ my graphics card. (New Hard Drive, no Drivers.) So I had to switch the motherboard to something with that, and it was my cousin who actually helped me through the whole process after I had told him the mess I had gotten into. We had to get a new processor and stuff for it after fucking up the first time, gah. But moral of the story, it really is better to just /DIY/. But do have someone with experience in it supervising you, someone who ISN'T LAZY.

Well if props and costumes are included..


I got to figure out how to make the pilot suit for Setsuna F. Seiei from 00 by the end of next January. Which is going to be interesting because I've never sewn before. I know for a fact I'm making the armor piece out of EVA foam though.

Outside of cosplay stuff, I'm really tempted to buy a Q4 Arcade stick, and basically swap out the buttons with Seimitsu see-throughs and different artwork. Shouldn't cost that much in comparison to a TE, since the Q4 comes with a 6 button conversion kit and plexi.

>>14842
After you have the initial shape of it down; you can move onto parts and stuff.

http://www.lizardlick.com/
http://akihabarashop.jp/

and the Tech Talk section on Shoryuken.com 's forum are actually where I would recommend you start looking for parts and layouts. Most fighting games tend to use Sanwa or Seimitsu parts though. There's also Korean fanta parts as well, which I have heard are arguably as good as Sanwa, but feel very much like Seimitsu.

Anyways, then you have to worry about the button layout of the arcade cab. Some games use 6 buttons, other games use four. I would personally just put in a 6 button layout since most Capcom based fighting games do this. and then adjust accordingly for every other game. You almost never see a fighting game use all 8 buttons from a TE stick. Unless you're using macros, but still. Also avoid buying Arcade-X or whatever it is. That stick is a piece of garbage and you're most likely going to save yourself a lot of stress and money by just building the controller portion yourself.

Last thing I want to mention is finding a proper CRT TV for your mame set up. I wouldn't use a modern day flat screen or HD TV for one just because there is input lag on those TV's which really make it iffy to play fighters on. You can easily just go to a Flea-Market or Thrift Store to find a monitor though. They don't cost that much anymore.
The rest is pretty much up to your creative mind, and a soldering gun.

Ah, alright OP. I can actually sort of help you out with this.


Okay so first of all; you're going to need a base to hold the system in as ; >>14668
mentioned. You want it to be MAME. You can go with either a PC, or an old hacked XBOX for this. Luckily, I have seen old Xbox's able to emulate CPS3 games (3s, etc.) but if you want to get even more modern day fighters , I would recommend building a PC that's able to do things like that. There are Arcade RIPS for games such as Blazblue CS 2 , Arcana Heart 3, and even King of Fighters 13, so I would straight up say PC, but depending on your budget, well, you could always go old XBOX.

Now I want to ask if you're building the cabinet as an old American Style one or not? Because most fighting games are played on Japanese Style Cabinets that use ball tops instead of bat top sticks. An example of a Japanese cabinet would be an Astrocity or a Vewlix Cabinet. I actually prefer these for fighters on the arcade I go to out of town because of how comfortable they are to play in. Season's Beatings had a few of these too!

>>8132
Out of the box Dual Mode? You may want to explain that one.

>>7716
I do indeed mean the Q4. But I had no idea it was the best stick on the market, might have to invest into one of those though.

>Quick Disconnect
>Wire Harness
>Plexi for Art changes


>MFW

Probably gonna cost an arm and a leg, but still lol.

I personally say Chuck Greene from Dead Rising 2 should be ONE of the /diy/ gods. Who else would think of using half the shit he did to kill off zombies?


Alternately, Tim from Tool Time.

I'm fond of i/diy/ots and han/diy/men

>>6082
Eeeh, I'm too lazy to change out the artwork. But yeah I did realize that after I applied it onto the stick. Unfortunately, all the weeaboo / vocaloid images i have take up exactly those lengths, so it's like "aaaaa".

I find it's easier to look for artwork for a TE or a HRAP imho. Oh yeah, speaking of HRAP, does anyone have one of the Qanba sticks? It's a chinese off-shoot but I hear it's actually quite effective for what it's worth. The casing on it looks convenient enough, although the recent HRAP'S and TE have the same functions as it.

http://shoryuken.com/forum/index.php?threads/the-official-qanba-fightstick-thread-new-q4-raf-3in1-wi
red-fightstick.90307/

Does armor count as well? Because I'm all up for learning more about EVA foam if anyone else has worked with it. So far; all I've taken is -

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vb6CXGortrQ&feature=player_embedded

into account. It looks really promising to work with, but I want to ask if anyone else here has worked with the material.

han/diy/men or i/diy/ots

>>5851
I disagree, but only on the fact that when light reflects the wood on this case, it makes it look like the case has tiger stripes / patterns on it.

I actually need to repair this, since Ultimate Marvel is coming out. The USB head was recently broken and I have not been able to use it for awhile, I was told to use a Neutrik B to A USB cable for this.

Eventually, I may just install LED's into this though.

Ah yeah, and there's a plexi covering the artwork.

I had a good friend do this one actually, I just got the chance to study how he was making it as well but since it's an Arcade stick general, I can show this off. Wish I actually had the time and resources to start on my own project though!

Parts are -
SANWA-OBSF
SANWA-JF
Cthulhu Mod
Xbox-360 Wired PCB
4-way Gate
Black Maple Wood Case