My first arcade stick... Metal slug style.

ShaolinDrunkard · Post by **ShaolinDrunkard** » Tue Dec 26, 2006 8:58 pm

Wow, been quite a while since I've been on this forum, anyway, I've built my first arcade stick and I figured I'd throw it up here since I leared most of what I know about soldering and hacking controllers here on this very forum. Its a metal slug arcade stick. Its certainly not perfect, but for my first try, I think its pretty cool. Anyway this is a Usb arcade stick specifically designed for emulated neo geo arcade games but useful for a ton of other arcade games including almost anything on mame. I thought constucting this this would be the most rewarding thing, but really its playing the games that has surprised me, playing arcade games with a real joystick is just so much fun, you'll play games you've probably never seen before and just not want to stop. Its been a really fun experience and I definetly want to make more for different platforms.

Here are some pics.

ShockSlayer · Post by **ShockSlayer** » Tue Dec 26, 2006 9:17 pm

NICE JOB!

BIG TEXT OMG!

SS

ShaolinDrunkard · Post by **ShaolinDrunkard** » Tue Dec 26, 2006 9:24 pm

Thanks!, I changed the size of the text for ya ShockSlayer.

Post by **CronoTriggerfan** » Tue Dec 26, 2006 9:30 pm

Wow, nicely done! Looks beautiful, especially to me; I have a soft spot in my heart to anything Neo Geo.

Oh, and seeing as you haven't been here in a while, for future reference, we now have an Arcade specific forum located at the bottom of the console section, right below the current-gen systems.

Hope to see more arcade mods from you in the future!

CTFan

Retromaster · Post by **Retromaster** » Tue Dec 26, 2006 9:34 pm

I really like how you used a screenshot from some metal slug game as the background.which metal slug game was it?

ShaolinDrunkard · Post by **ShaolinDrunkard** » Tue Dec 26, 2006 9:50 pm

Thanks for the compliments guys.

Yeah, I saw the new arcade section, but I wasnt sure if that which was right for posting this in, so I went with here. But thanks for mentioning that, I'll post there from now on. Thats a screenshot from Metal slug X Retromaster. I decided to do that because I'm really no great artist and a lot of people who make arcade sticks rip off other peoples artwork, I didnt want to do that.

typamc95 · Post by **typamc95** » Tue Dec 26, 2006 9:56 pm

How much would it be for you make me one with this image?

ShaolinDrunkard · Post by **ShaolinDrunkard** » Tue Dec 26, 2006 10:13 pm

Well I dont know if I'm at the point of making them for sale yet. But i'll think about it. Probably not that much. Whats your attachment to that image anyway? I'm just curious.

typamc95 · Post by **typamc95** » Tue Dec 26, 2006 10:15 pm

Dark, Shiny, Glowing, Just like my onyx Black DS lite

ShaolinDrunkard · Post by **ShaolinDrunkard** » Tue Dec 26, 2006 10:16 pm

Ahh, I see. Yeah, it is nice. Maybe once I get a little more practice, its very flattering though, thanks.

typamc95 · Post by **typamc95** » Tue Dec 26, 2006 11:06 pm

It would be awesome to halo it up on that thing.