Hello All,
I have been using Launchbox/BigBox for a couple years now and maintaining my own personal collection on my PC with a simple controller. Recently my buddy who works for a Fiber Optic lighting company, commisioned me to build 2 arcade machines for a rental house client of theirs. These things are huge, its like sitting in a star wars cockpit with 4 chairs and an 80inch TV! Luckily his company is doing all the CNC fabrication of the setup but I am in charge of doing all the internal.
What I am looking for is a nice list of high quality parts for buttons, joysticks, flight sticks, roll balls, LED Lighting Marquee, Control boards from the buttons to the PC, light guns, and anything else I may not know about. The PC part i got covered, going to be a top of the line with plenty of room and fast to handle anything thrown at it with no lag.
Ive been browsing through the forums and videos and I cannot seem to find a good detailed or high quality tried and true list of parts needed(these parts need to stand up for a long time and against rental people who dont care about things...lol). Specially the control board for the everything like the buttons to communicate to the PC. It will be a windows PC using launchbox/big box of course.
I am also looking into some controllers that will work very seamless with the setup, xbox controllers or anything else that would be good for NES, SNES, GameCube/N64(unique controllers) etc and so forth.
I know the picture only shows 2 chairs and control stations, but it will end up being 4 players and 4 chairs.
These are for 10 room rental houses in Florida, the houses have even been on the news as hollywood vacation houses in davenport FL. I will definately give a shoutout to the people who help me on the parts list. I will not forget! Our names will be on the back or somewhere as designed/built/special thanks too
Thank you very much for all of your help guys!!
conFIGured.