re: DIY arcade & arcade1up pinball revisited

Posted on 1/4/21 at 10:24 am to pongze

Posted by CAD703X

Liberty Island

Member since Jul 2008

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Posted on 1/4/21 at 10:24 am to pongze

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pongze

thats insane. i thought i was pretty OCD about reading every single post that comes in on the 1up sub but i completely missed this when you posted it.

i dont have a 3D printer but given the popularity of 1ups and modding i can't believe someone hasn't come up with a solution for the 4way/8way issue. i am using thumb screws to make pulling my panel off easier to get to the gate but i feel like a neanderthal compared to what you've done.

1up should be shot for releasing the burger time cab with an 8-way because of the other games.

i saw the 2 threads about the elegant 'power down' and using stock volume control but was too lazy to implement either of them.

now that i'm moving to a pi4 and larger screen after doing my 'test run' with a pi2 i'd like to make the whole cabinet more robust.

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Posted by pongze

IE, SoCal

Member since Nov 2007

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Posted on 1/4/21 at 3:01 pm to CAD703X

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i can't believe someone hasn't come up with a solution for the 4way/8way issue.

So someone did come up with an elegant but not necessarily visually pleasing solution:

Restrictor insert

You’d have to switch it out when you wanted to change it. I suppose the dust cover can still sit on top of these and they can be made to have a really low profile.

That subreddit was great with all sorts of new ideas, but I haven’t seen anything really innovative for about half a year.

Regarding Burgertime, someone posted this:

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Burgertime is a bit of an outlier. Even with a proper 4-way stick, the controls are still very dodgy. It has terrible collision detection, and extremely tight directional allowance. Great game Idea, but Deco clearly made it hard as balls for more quarters.

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