conFIGured Posted July 25, 2019 Share Posted July 25, 2019 (edited) 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. Edited July 25, 2019 by conFIGured Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
conFIGured Posted July 26, 2019 Author Share Posted July 26, 2019 Maybe i should reiterate, I didnt mean i need someone to put together a parts list for me. I am just looking for help on the names of good companys to get parts from that are dependable. The name of the boards for hooking up the arcade buttons/sticks to that will go to a PC etc etc. I can do the hardwork myself, i just cant find a good list of parts. Ive been looking through the forums here as well and I must be blind, if anybody has a link to a list anywhere that would be much appreciated also. Thank you. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Headrush69 Posted July 27, 2019 Share Posted July 27, 2019 I’ll put my nod for Ultimarc products. Their iPac line for buttons/controllers are top notch, provide plenty of flexibility and Andy provides great support. i recently switched my cabinet buttons to their illuminated gold leaf buttons and absolutely love them. After trying various joysticks, I settled on their ServoStiks. They have other joysticks with different feature sets, but These are probably closer to what most people expect in arcade sticks. Their Spintrak and U-trak I endorse as well Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
conFIGured Posted July 28, 2019 Author Share Posted July 28, 2019 Cool thank you so much, going to check into that Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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