I was pleased with how this looked even with just the holes drilled. Time to start adding buttons! I purchased this set of 4 player controls from gameroomguys.com.
I got a few extra Happ buttons and this cool arcade trackball and metal cover plate on eBay. How could I resist for the price? I mean it glows green and changes to red when you click a button!
Most of the buttons and trackball in!
Joysticks in!
Absolutely the best deal I found building this is this pack of JAMMA arcade wires on eBay. I pulled all the wires out of the black JAMMA harness as I wasn't going to use that, but the color coding and combination of wiring were perfect for the 4 player controls.
I connected all the wiring to an I-PAC 4. I couldn't be happier with this product. This product, along with all the MAME software made me appreciate how much work was done by the guys that were geeking out on arcade emulation long before I started on this project. This project was EASY compared to what was done in the olden days of MAME.
I soldered the tip of stranded wires before I tried to screw them into the I-PAC, and this made for a much cleaner install.
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