-
Welcome to the Heroscapers 2.0 site! We've still got some dust to clear and adjustments to make, including launching a new front page, but we hope you enjoy the improvements to the site. Please post your feedback and any issues you encounter in this thread.
Super Hero City AKA Japes's Custom Crap
- Thread starter japes
- Start date
Re: Super Hero City
Older Dell PC's my company was throwing out. It doesn't take much if you aren't trying to play anything too fancy. We usually go with the classics and then a bunch of Street Fighter II variants. Especially the Marvel ones. They struggle with Mortal Kombat IV and Tekkens but I don't really play those anyway but it gives you a range.
My son loves Dig Dug, Frogger, Galaga and Donkey Kong.
Most of the Dell Cast offs have had WinXP including the one pictured but the one I am on now has Windows 7 which is a new experience.
Older Dell PC's my company was throwing out. It doesn't take much if you aren't trying to play anything too fancy. We usually go with the classics and then a bunch of Street Fighter II variants. Especially the Marvel ones. They struggle with Mortal Kombat IV and Tekkens but I don't really play those anyway but it gives you a range.
My son loves Dig Dug, Frogger, Galaga and Donkey Kong.
Most of the Dell Cast offs have had WinXP including the one pictured but the one I am on now has Windows 7 which is a new experience.
Re: Super Hero City
I missed this HF but it really isn't that hard. I built my first one off Youtube and blog post back when my wood working hobby was just starting. I've learned a lot in 6 years since and the latest build is great.
That is pretty sweet, Japes! Makes me curious about trying to build one ... hmm. Recalls so many of those memories as a kid where half the birthday parties were held at arcades or places with an arcade #theelementarylife
I missed this HF but it really isn't that hard. I built my first one off Youtube and blog post back when my wood working hobby was just starting. I've learned a lot in 6 years since and the latest build is great.
Tornado
Fan Fiction Prompt Master
I busted out my trackball and steering wheels recently.
There is a really good hack for them using a laser mouse.
I downloaded a program which lets you reverse the axis on the mouse(which is needed, due to the hack) but have not tried it out yet.
There was a guy selling table top multi-game systems and I researched it a bit because I figured I could build one for less than $100 and he was selling them for $300-400.
He used a multi-game Jamma board you can get from Amazon(you basically can buy a complete kit) which struck me as better than a computer but still perhaps not legit.
Best I can tell is that it is not, so you cannot really sell them but I found no examples of anyone getting sued. Anyway, there went my recurring dream of selling video games.
There is a really good hack for them using a laser mouse.
I downloaded a program which lets you reverse the axis on the mouse(which is needed, due to the hack) but have not tried it out yet.
There was a guy selling table top multi-game systems and I researched it a bit because I figured I could build one for less than $100 and he was selling them for $300-400.
He used a multi-game Jamma board you can get from Amazon(you basically can buy a complete kit) which struck me as better than a computer but still perhaps not legit.
Best I can tell is that it is not, so you cannot really sell them but I found no examples of anyone getting sued. Anyway, there went my recurring dream of selling video games.
I busted out my trackball and steering wheels recently.
There is a really good hack for them using a laser mouse.
I downloaded a program which lets you reverse the axis on the mouse(which is needed, due to the hack) but have not tried it out yet.
There was a guy selling table top multi-game systems and I researched it a bit because I figured I could build one for less than $100 and he was selling them for $300-400.
He used a multi-game Jamma board you can get from Amazon(you basically can buy a complete kit) which struck me as better than a computer but still perhaps not legit.
Best I can tell is that it is not, so you cannot really sell them but I found no examples of anyone getting sued. Anyway, there went my recurring dream of selling video games.
Have yet to attempt a track ball or steering wheel. I'd like to as some point but haven't had the time or money to explore that yet. Figuring out a light gun would also be a future en devour. That one will really have to wait though for my son to get old enough for my wife to be fine with it.
I could see a track ball being first in line. I'll likely just get a wheel for my PC to play Grid and Dirt as they fill the spot for the little racing we do. In a perfect world I find a way to get a Golden Tee type interface to work with Links Golf...or better yet a swing simulator. There have been several updates to the abandoned software and tons of real course created for that game.
Tornado
Fan Fiction Prompt Master
Never heard of Links Golf.
Do you swing an actual club?
Trackball hack should be easy if the reverse axis program works.
You simply mount the mouse under trackball.
I almost but a mini Golden Tee game that has a trackball and just plugs into the TV and try to hack that but since I already have an arcade trackball from a bowling game I am going to use that. It does need a few new rollers/bearings.
I would try to see if you can get one at an arcade auction. They can be really expensive.
Light Guns are really tricky. I guess the sensor technology is really not that great.
The best solution I can think of is to buy an actual light gun game and see if you can get other games to run on it.
Do you swing an actual club?
Trackball hack should be easy if the reverse axis program works.
You simply mount the mouse under trackball.
I almost but a mini Golden Tee game that has a trackball and just plugs into the TV and try to hack that but since I already have an arcade trackball from a bowling game I am going to use that. It does need a few new rollers/bearings.
I would try to see if you can get one at an arcade auction. They can be really expensive.
Light Guns are really tricky. I guess the sensor technology is really not that great.
The best solution I can think of is to buy an actual light gun game and see if you can get other games to run on it.
BigThumbToe
New member
For Tekken, Jam, blitz and other similar games try using the console emulator versions. I run my Tekken and jam through a psx emu and blitz through a Dreamcast one. Soul calibur 2 runs fairly smooth through the GameCube one, though I do have to turn down some specs but it looks way better than the original console version still. The computer I'm running everything on is so minimal spec it's ridiculous. I think the only things I ever upgraded from when I bought it in '05 was a bigger hard drive, added a gig of ram making it I believe 3 gigs and eventually dropping a better graphics card when I wanted to play street fighter 4 and DC injustice. Which never really ran smooth enough to have 2 players play competitively. At least the graphics card helped me play a couple GameCube fighters. The Naruto games are still some of my favorites.
keglo
New member
Naruto games for what system? I love the Naruto anime but have never played any of the games.
BigThumbToe
New member
Naruto gekitou ninja taisen 4 for the GameCube is one of my favorite games. Great 2 player fighter that can go 3 on 3 or switch it up to a 4 player brawl. The series carried over to the Wii and went into Shippuden but lost some of its flare in the process. I run it on my cabinet with an 8 button layout, only uses 6 or 7 for a two player matchup and works fairly well. As far as other Naruto games go I really enjoyed the two on Xbox 360. Broken bond I think was the name of the second one. Ps2 had some great arcade 2d fighters that works well on a cabinet if you have enough buttons. They eventually became the Storm series on PS3. Of course everything but the 360 and PS3 games are only Japanese but fighters are very easy to figure out menus and options. I definitely recommend using rgb LEDs if you're going to use them on a cabinet.
The all blue LED's were for a friends cabinet that we built off of the same design. After building his we decided to build a new one for ourselves and went rbg LED's. It's pretty cool when the attract mode kicks in but most helpful when the buttons light up in the original colors to show what buttons are used.
keglo
New member
Nice. Thanks for all the information. Although building a cabinet for gaming is beyond my skills. It would be sweet though.
It's really not as hard as it looks. When I built my first one I had almost no wood working experience and it turned out pretty good. I've built three now with the two I built last summer and took a lot of what I learned from the first one 6 years ago to upgrade to my current one.
keglo
New member
Is there a site or something you guys go to for inspiration? Or maybe even some instructions?
You can google Mame Cabinet or DIY Arcade Cabinet and get lots of ideas. Here are some I've visisted.
BYOAC
Doc's Cabinet
http://www.coldbeamgames.com/blog/i-built-an-arcade-cabinet
http://www.hanselman.com/blog/BuildingYourOwnArcadeCabinetForGeeksPart1TheCabinet.aspx
You can google Mame Cabinet or DIY Arcade Cabinet and get lots of ideas. Here are some I've visited.
BYOAC
Doc's Cabinet
http://www.coldbeamgames.com/blog/i-built-an-arcade-cabinet
http://www.hanselman.com/blog/BuildingYourOwnArcadeCabinetForGeeksPart1TheCabinet.aspx
BigThumbToe
New member
Start small. It's a thing you'll never actually finish. But that's a good thing. I've built a couple cabinets but each one is more of a new version of the previous with most components getting carried over and reused. I started with an x-arcade tankstick and then used the buttons and switches to build my own layout in a full size cabinet. Then built a 4 player panel. Then realized we never played 4 player games and went back to 2 players with rgb LEDs. Then scrapped the whole thing during a move, kept all the buttons and inner workings of course. And now I'm finally at the nice, compact, small footprint cabinet that just needs a bezel and the kick plate door attached. Easily my favorite of all my builds. I switched to a flat screen from the old CRT so I lost my ability to use my light gun so if anyone's interested in it let me know sorry for the rambling
sorry for the rambling
So I have had a few figures laying around that I intended on painting someday but I had never gotten the nerve up to try. After reading a dozen or so times a post of someone telling me to just do it and reading several great tutorials on here I gave it a go...here is some of the results.
Cheap symbiote figure painted to be Carnage, Cheap Abomination figure (same sculpt as official C3G A-Bomb) painted to be A-Bomb, a cheap Hulk painted to be Red Hulk, some green Adaptoids to be cheap proxies for Uncommon Black Lantern zombies, an Arrowette figure to be Artemis Croc from Young Justice, Adaptoid figures again this time painted Orange for Orange Lantern Stolen Identities, and finally I painted my Mysterio Holographs to separate them from Mysterio.
Actually Finally in the back ground you can see the Mimrig that was modded to be Zelrig. My son was heartbroken when we sold our original Zelrig but we lucked into it and it funded our starting venture into Heroscape. I picked up a couple Mimrig figures with the promise of some day making a Zelrig...Finally did it. I also let him paint a spare Charos that I will post later.
Cheap symbiote figure painted to be Carnage, Cheap Abomination figure (same sculpt as official C3G A-Bomb) painted to be A-Bomb, a cheap Hulk painted to be Red Hulk, some green Adaptoids to be cheap proxies for Uncommon Black Lantern zombies, an Arrowette figure to be Artemis Croc from Young Justice, Adaptoid figures again this time painted Orange for Orange Lantern Stolen Identities, and finally I painted my Mysterio Holographs to separate them from Mysterio.
Actually Finally in the back ground you can see the Mimrig that was modded to be Zelrig. My son was heartbroken when we sold our original Zelrig but we lucked into it and it funded our starting venture into Heroscape. I picked up a couple Mimrig figures with the promise of some day making a Zelrig...Finally did it. I also let him paint a spare Charos that I will post later.
