Buttons and other stuff

I didn’t work all night tonight, so I took the opportunity to take some shots of the arcade hardware that I will be using. Here is the spread:

So we have the main buttons, player 1 and 2 are going to be red v blue, 2 and 3 will be green and orange:

There are some nice 1up, 2up, 3up and 4up buttons, also in this shot you can see the I-PAC and the OptiPAC – these are the keyboard emulator for the buttons (including joysticks) and the controller for the spinner and the trackball:

The joysticks are Sanwa are feel really great:

Other than that there is the spinner, and the (huge) trackball:

One neat find from OzStick is the coin button:

The buttons came with pretty good micro-switches. In the overview you can also see the hook-up wire, spade connectors, the various bits of mounting hardware and the couple of USB cables. There are also 4 other white buttons, 8 black buttons, and 8 yellow buttons that I will probably put near the rotary controls (need at least a couple to the left of the trackball). Looking forward to getting the deck top cut out so I can wire up the switches and test out the controller boards. Must be patient though – need to measure the exact size once the console is built up.

Bring on the weekend! (Plan is to get the front panels on, the rest of the top rail in and maybe get the doors on.