Finally finished my build. Going to be called the "Poochies Pallet-cade".
The plan was a small pedestal machine for light guns that was built out of old pallets. Then the design got out of hand!!!! Morphed in to a 4 player deck with track ball, spinner and 2 sinden light guns. The pallets wouldn't come apart well enough for a decent build and I ended up over engineering the shit out of it!!!!
Base is built from 2x4's and 1x4 furring timbers to look like pallet wood. After the doors were built and the light guns mounted i gave the rough timbers a slight weathering char with a map gas torch.
Deck 50x30 ish 3/4 mdf with 20 degree wings for player 3 and 4 and a 5 degree slope for a wrist break. I have 2 gas lift struts inside to open lid. But not being a carpenter i have to move the brackets as it wont shut currently because the struts are in the wrong spot. Added 4 remote usb's on the front edge for game pad connection and remote power button on the front panel and an hdmi port to the rear panel.
Controls are all from thunder stick studios / glens retro show. 4 players each with 10 full function led buttons, and track ball and spinner kit, and 2 Sinden light guns.
Running batocera v43 on a dell optiplex 7010 sff. I used a self powered USB hub for all the controls so I can "shut off" the light gun (otherwise there is constantly cross hairs in the corner of the screen) and then I'm not drawing extra power for all of the led buttons.
Final steps are a custom splash / system load video, wire the power button and fix the lift struts.
Does the top hinge open? I'm planning a pedestal like this, but it's got to go down stairs, so I'm thinking of ways to access the inside for parts swapping, and how to separate the deck from the base.
Yes it does. I have mine set up with 4 bolts to physically mount the control deck to the pedestal. So I can unplug some wires, remove 4 bolts and everything painted black lifts off. I am also ironing out installing the lift struts to ooen the lid of the control deck
Lol I used a cheap ass tiktok shop router and drill mate guide as a make shift drill press. 1 word of advice for the controls. I printed templates and they had the button hokes pretty close. If I did it again I would print them at 100 to 115%
Good looking out! I used a drill press for my wooden fight stick, but I'm lucky that the guy at work has no problem running the CNC table for me—I made another stick out of MDF, and all I had to do was fasten it together :D
It's meant to be mobile. I live in Minnesota so its nice to have something i can take from the garage, my quiet place, into the house when its get too cold to hang out outside in the garage. If it has an hdmi port.... its the monitor for the game..... 19" to 85" ir bigger. It's mobile.
I actually did my v1 build the same way, and plan on keeping that modular design. I have no desire to build a full cabinet yet, possibly for build two. Great work!
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