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I will be adding more of the history into this in a bit, right now I just want to sleep. Tomorrow I will be heading to Columbus for the meeting on where RES will be and how it will be set up. I hope it's facing a door, that'd be sweet!]]> 1197190361 Sun, 09 Dec 2007 02:52:41 -0600 http://www.kkwow.com/res/?subaction=showfull&id=1197100243&archive=
If you forgot, the old buttons used to look like this:



So thank goodness for my Photoshop skills. I figured this would be a nice looking change for sure. I may just change my other skins to reflect this soon as well. Depends on how much time before the unveiling.

Well, gotta go, it's nearly 3am and I have a full day's work ahead of me.]]> 1197100243 Sat, 08 Dec 2007 01:50:43 -0600 http://www.kkwow.com/res/?subaction=showfull&id=1149292800&archive=
The second woe is the the exploding cherry and the missing contact pin for the cherry to stay in place. My friend Sara, seen in How-to Part 2, was here to test out RES and she tried the joystick. Immediately she noticed the cherry problem while playing Metal Slug and told me about it. I showed her what happened and she was a bit saddened. That was an expensive joystick to have break on me.

I have a drill and I need to get some staples. Once I do then I can staple the overlay to the bottom of the cabinet and be done with that part.

I do regret that this is a 1-player cabinet, especially yesterday when I was not able to do some 2-player fun. My next cabinet will be a 2-player cab for sure.

Speaking of the next cabinet, I would like to find a better way of connecting all the cherry wires to "da bomb". Right now it's a bit too much to unscrew everything to rescrew it in. I think I will modify it to do something with a printer port 25 pin cabling system. The X-Arcade system relies on 40 pins going external to the cabinet, so placing these on some sort of plug in, I can just yank "da bomb" to any cabinet I need it in, if I do go to a 2 player cabinet.

That's it for right now, I have a thousand other projects I need to work on as well, so I will update a bit later.]]> 1149292800 Fri, 02 Jun 2006 19:00:00 -0500