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Mayhem
First off hello and welcome to my Blog for my project C-Macc’s
Now the idea behind C-Macc’s is quite Simple and it’s to build an Arcade Machine that will House every known working Emulators and ever Un-Emulated System in one system.
Hence the Name C-MACC’S meaning - Complete - Multi Arcade Console Computer System.
The hardware has changed allot from its first idea and basically it is taking a while to complete.
The Simple Basic outline of the hardware is as follows though.
1 x Jap Style Candy Arcade cab
1 x PC
1 x Xbox
1 x Dreamcast
1 x WII
Lots and Lots of wire and PCB’s and some other fancy gear to make it all work together.
To start with first I bought myself a Jap Style candy cab and this is it below:-
THE CONTROL PANNEL -
The first thing was I hated the Buttons on the system as they didn’t give the arcade feel and were very spongy so I replaced these with some nice Clicky Buttons with chrome Edging Pics below :-
Now over time I also added the Light to the System to allow the Buttons to light up. Now not only do they light up they also tell you which buttons work for which games as Pictured below :-
Now Basically using Software called GameEX it helps load up a game / emulators and tells the user in words and lights which button does what. Not only is that also does some cool looking strobe effects to music and various other things.
Here is some Pics of Underneath the control panel.
This is the Pic of the Buttons and Leds wired up. I’m using something called a USB Output Driver Board. Basically I am using software installed on the PC to control the board and this in turn controls the LEDs. Now each LED is 5V so they are all run directly from the USB drive. There is enough room for 16 LEDs but I’m only using 14 of them as there is no need for 16 at the moment. I can add as many LED Driver boards I like but if I do to many it could look a little on the silly side.
This is a Pic of the LED Driver board which has now been moved and I’m using small diameter wiring.
There is also Extra Side Button’s that I added to the Control panel and these are for pinball games and all I did was drill a couple extra side holes and installed the new arcade buttons again a Pic below showing this.
There is a Red and Black buttons on top of the control panel and these are to turn on and off the PC. These were very easy to install and don’t get in way of any game play.
So to finish off here is a Link to a VID of the control panel working.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yrx3hOzHbHM
-=I’ll Update This Blog Soon with more info on the hardware im running and still working on=-
Nice one there! I’d like to see more pics of the games that it can run.
It can run any thing or will be able to. The only games i dont raly run on it are FPS PC games as they just dont work to well on this type of set up all though it is possable. E.g Joy 1 for movment , joy 2 for looking a,d buttons to fire but it would be very aquard. Ive stuck with mainly games that work well with the system. But since the PC is a History of gaming it contains nealy all games from all systems inc, Info on each game, Pic’s of the boxs, hardware, game ect ect. Not every game is playable but being honist im not to fussed. The software side is not fully complete yet as you can imagin its not some thing that tak 1 hour to do. Its taken 6 weeks just to have all the emus up and working correctly.
Updating plog now with some games pics and info.
very very impresiv m8 you shud start selling em
thank you for comment allthough selling them is not possable. This is Just a custome PC at the end of the day and a 1 off at that. There will never be another one made by my self.
The ultimate games machine. I bow down to your technical abilities.