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Arcade 1Ups replica cabs thread
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Heres how the cab looks now:
I decided not to bother putting the speakers on the front of the cab in case they get damaged afterall.
Have some speaker grills ordered from AliExpress just to give them protection.
The speakers are truly full range to the extent I had to roll off some of the high frequencies using the equaliser in the Realtek control panel! The bass is present and natural sounding also.
The volume is so loud that I have the slider down to half way in windows, and even at that I have the external volume knob turned a fifth of the way up!
Some difference over the other amp I bought.
Next up is cable management, putting hinges on the back door, and possibly putting red vinyl tape over the T-molding.0 -
Can you give a guide to how much you have spent to date on this, it's looks classHeres how the cab looks now:
I decided not to bother putting the speakers on the front of the cab in case they get damaged afterall.
Have some speaker grills ordered from AliExpress just to give them protection.
The speakers are truly full range to the extent I had to roll off some of the high frequencies using the equaliser in the Realtek control panel! The bass is present and natural sounding also.
The volume is so loud that I have the slider down to half way in windows, and even at that I have the external volume knob turned a fifth of the way up!
Some difference over the other amp I bought.
Next up is cable management, putting hinges on the back door, and possibly putting red vinyl tape over the T-molding.0 -
razor12345 wrote: »Can you give a guide to how much you have spent to date on this, it's looks class
Thanks for the kind words! To be honest I never add up the total cost of parts for projects in case it scares me, but ill try and get a total for you tomorrow.
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Heres how the cab looks now:
I decided not to bother putting the speakers on the front of the cab in case they get damaged afterall.
Have some speaker grills ordered from AliExpress just to give them protection.
The speakers are truly full range to the extent I had to roll off some of the high frequencies using the equaliser in the Realtek control panel! The bass is present and natural sounding also.
The volume is so loud that I have the slider down to half way in windows, and even at that I have the external volume knob turned a fifth of the way up!
Some difference over the other amp I bought.
Next up is cable management, putting hinges on the back door, and possibly putting red vinyl tape over the T-molding.
I might be wrong but I always thought it was better to have the external volume knob higher and the source volume lower. Less chance of blowing them I thought.0 -
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Yeah you're right,.I'm going to turn it down to a quarter on the pc as it's ridiculously still loud with the knob cranked up.
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You get what you pay for. An i3 with 8GB of ram, and a 750Ti walks all over a Pi, and not just in terms of what games are available. The end product on screen from a Pi, versus something emulated on pc and jazzed up with shaders etc, is hugely different. I don't think I could use vanilla emulation from a Pi again. I've two of these cabs (still sitting in they're boxes!), and if I go down the road of converting them, I'll 100% go the route Doge took.
What set up do you use on the PC for the emulation and does it boot up the PC straight to the emulation
Do you have to have a seperate button to power on the PC and does it boot any faster to the emulator than Windows?
I would have access to older SFF Dell PC's that I maybe could swap my Pi out for
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I use a general purpose sff build for emulation, but as it’s general purpose, I prefer it not to boot straight to emulation (though yes that’s easily done). You can configure pc’s to boot once they’re powered on (bios setting), so no need for a power button. Boot time using an ssd is 5 to 7 seconds.
Not all bios support booting on power detection unfortunately, so I'm stuck using the power button, but I like that power button,.it's like turning on a Ferrari!
She purrs when the fans of the GPU spins up!
It does support booting after a power failure though.
Skerries you just need to solder extra long wires to a momentary switch, crimp with female SIL crimps at the other end and use a plastic connector and connect to the 2 power pins on the motherboard.
Or you can buy premade ones online that have the smaller switches for PCs, you could always cut those off and solder on a bigger switch like mine.
As for booting straight to the front end,.I went a bit hardcore and used the front end as the windows shell with a registry edit.
This replaces explorer.exe meaning all that loads is a blank screen behind the emulator, no task bar etc.
To configure or run apps I need to hit ctrl alt del and click on new task in task manager.
I also changed the cursor to a single black pixel, which is extremely hard to see when you need to configure stuff actually!
I had a problem a few days ago where my Tiny7 image was giving out about activation instead of loading the front end first, but I got around that with Windows Loader. Seems to happen everyone with tiny7.0 -
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I'm having flashbacks to my pre-Pi days!Not all bios support booting on power detection unfortunately, so I'm stuck using the power button, but I like that power button,.it's like turning on a Ferrari!
She purrs when the fans of the GPU spins up!
It does support booting after a power failure though.
Skerries you just need to solder extra long wires to a momentary switch, crimp with female SIL crimps at the other end and use a plastic connector and connect to the 2 power pins on the motherboard.
Or you can buy premade ones online that have the smaller switches for PCs, you could always cut those off and solder on a bigger switch like mine.
As for booting straight to the front end,.I went a bit hardcore and used the front end as the windows shell with a registry edit.
This replaces explorer.exe meaning all that loads is a blank screen behind the emulator, no task bar etc.
To configure or run apps I need to hit ctrl alt del and click on new task in task manager.
I also changed the cursor to a single black pixel, which is extremely hard to see when you need to configure stuff actually!
I had a problem a few days ago where my Tiny7 image was giving out about activation instead of loading the front end first, but I got around that with Windows Loader. Seems to happen everyone with tiny7.0 -
I'm having flashbacks to my pre-Pi days!
Ah the good ol' days eh?
Not to hate on the Pi, it's a grand little thing, but has some hard limits.0 -
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