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My first RC crawler, first Axial product :-) Decided to plunge my $$$ on this one to get myself know more about RC (Radio Control) vehicle. I never thought that I'll be spending even more $$ after this purchase for more upgrades in the weeks to come. Aluminium upgrades, lighting kits, more transmitter/receiver channels, and even FPV, there are just so many parts and $$$ that one could spend to modding this rig! Stay tuned for more pictures about which upgrades that I had done to this awesome RC truck! Read more »

* This is a Part 1 writeup that gives a quick general overview about pinball cabinet systems, pinball emulator/simulator and pinball front end when I'm setting up my Pinball arcade system on my Desktop setup * ** Stay tuned for  Part 2 if you would like to know how I setup each Pinball emulator/simulator such as PinMAME, Visual Pinball, Future Pinball, Pinball FX2 and Pinball Front-end using PinballX ** Pictures will be added in the future... After 3 months of work I'm proud to say that my HyperSpin setup is now complete! Featuring 130 systems and perhaps more since HyperList is updated very frequently now. I've completed almost all the major systems since the 90's :-) With this setup I decided to try setting up a Pinball systems. And alas, this has opened up a brand new can of worms! Never have I thought setting up a Pinball front end would be this daunting. So this post is basically summarising what I've learnt and done to setup my Pinball arcade experience usin...

This is the SECOND of the THREE part posts that I wrote to share my experience to mod my X-Arcade TankStick. The X-Arcade TankStick came with a very sturdy cabinet and offers a lot of room for modding. Search on Google and you'll find numerous mods that people had done with it over the years. I decided to write this post to share my experience in modding the TankStick with little DIY background :-) I made sure to took pictures of every steps that I did not only to share the progress with you, but also as a flashback moment for me during the mod. The whole mod took around 3 days as I tried different joysticks every time I mounted a new one before finally deciding on one. Modding the TankStick actually requires no woodwork AT ALL if you're only seeking to replace the push buttons and installing a spinner. Woodwork is only needed in case you want to mount a universal mounting plate such as the Kowal, which you'll then install it on the Japanese or Korean joysticks. This is m...

This is the FIRST of the THREE part posts that I wrote to share my experience to mod my X-Arcade TankStick. See Part Two - My Complete Illustrated Experience to Mod X-Arcade TankStick to see a complete pictures showing you my progress of mounting/installing these parts inside the TankStick. The first step is of course purchasing the arcade parts. Following are the arcade parts which I purchased from various sites: FocusAttack Euro iL Short Stem Convex 28mm Push Buttons Cherry DX44 Microswitches with 0.187" terminal size Kowal Universal Joystick Mounting Plate (to fit with American/European and Japanese joystick) AkiShop Seimitsu LS-32 Seimitsu LS-32-02 (same as LS-32 but with PCB mounted) Sanwa JLF Shaft cover and dust washer for Sanwa and Seimitsu Joysticks JLF-5H 5-Pin wire harness (to connect with the PCB on the Joystick) Restrictor Gates ArcadeWorldUK I decided to split my order into two separate shipments with declared value of ~USD150 each in order to avoid having to pay ...

It is possible to turn your mouse or spinner such as the Ultimarc SpinTrak into a virtual analog device detected by various emulator (arcade) as well as PC games. Only two softwares are needed: vJoy - Create virtual joystick on your PC. You'll need a feeder application to provide input to the virtual joystick. FreePIE - Emulate a virtual joystick and send the key buttons to vJoy. Read more »