Road Hog Mad

£63 for a hopper, there was someone on here who got some cheap wing wong hoppers working, who was that?

Making of thread.. Two heads are better than one, even if they're goats heads or whatever the saying is. So with this in mind I am after your thoughts and suggestions etc. As you all know I'm making a small build, all is going well so far apart from 1 button not lighting up and that is due to me having 15 buttons and only having a 16 pin connector of which I need 2 pins spare for the hoppers, which would mean; 2 hoppers and 14 buttons. I'm not bothered to be honest it would look odd with 5 buttons at the top and it is still functional, it just doesn't light up. Anyway, moving on to power supplies, I do have a spare PC 12V PSU which I can use for the coin mech and hoppers, I'm aware of how to wire up with them and make them permanently on. I do recall my mate ages ago sending me a link to a smaller version of a 12V PSU but it wasn't for a PC (not that it matters) so any form of link to that will be appreciated. As the hoppers are rather expensive, the 12V Azkoyen Universal parallel, £45 each! and I need 2. I do recall someone on here using Taliban Express ones which where like £12 each but they where 24V, so this is where I have an issue, the MARS mech is 12V and the hoppers would be 24V so I'd need some form of 12/24V PSU unless I bit the bullet and spent £90 on hoppers!! Suggestions please! The hoppers would be for £1 and 10p coins. Needed... Coin entry slot facia, metal coin mech holder, flexible tube (the type that went to the cash boxes on MPU4 machines and that plastic tray which was below the coin mech to direct the coins in to the appropriate tubes. I'm quite happy for donations if you have one lying round in a spare parts bin I'll pay the postage. Obviously I'm working on a tight budget, already spent £107 at Arcade World on buttons, pac drive/i-pacs. And I think that's it!

It'll go on a slow down after the coin mech is installed. Rub down and paint and a few other little bits. I enjoy it when the wife watches series. Not so sure about what she watched though 'my lover is a killer' lol. Need some cheap hoppers

video showing the button LEDs working

So rather than pay for a pay out tray (£15 off eBay) and have it sticking out, why not make one from the wood left over?

No no... Read back, re TN monitor

Yeah they look like the ones off arcade world, I think they're a little cheaper on Arcade World... Square 32mm High Profile Illuminated Arcade Button - Arcade World UK They're the one's I used. They come with the switch and 5v led bulb. Anyway, update... Done all the buttons and they light up apart from the top right white one, it still works if pressed but as I was doing it I remembered I needed X2 for the hoppers, there is only 16 slots on that unit and I have 15 buttons. So it's like the 4th chimney on the Titanic (a dummy). Coin mechs gone over to BF74 from the mecca, and I await some advice on alterative hoppers as them Azkoyen 12V ones are £45 each!! . As I'm using bits from a laptop I will have to source a 12V power supply, I have a spare PSU but was looking for something smaller, I may up using that though.

Problem now is them things with the bulbs in don't fit the old barcrest buttons, any suggestions

This was taken at a slight angle, if you look dead on at it it turns black, its fine in landscape mode. Crappy TN monitor!

Yeah it's a TN monitor and looks awful in portrait, suffice to say it's actually very clear in landscape mode, smallest text is readable and I'm blind.

4 cans later... Getting a little tired now.. worlds smallest speakers go at the top where the drill holes are. Pretty sure according to my measurements a coin mech and two hoppers will fit in. I need some form of payout tray though!?

2 cans later...

Something like this

Bit of paint later, gonna have big start and collect button then small buttons in between...

Little update... Just noticed my footwear, ignore them

Yeah I'll be showing my progress on here, got some jobs to do for the wife first to keep her off my back.

What I might do is implement the existing touch/scroll pad thing from the laptop. Dunno. Saves buying a touchscreen thing from taliban express.

Found a donor laptop in the draw, wacked in an SSD, installed windows, debloated it as it's similar spec to a notebook but it runs MFME quite smoothly! So... here's to creating an official bar top machine and i'll be sourcing that touchscreen thing from Taliban Express or whatever its called.

Yeah a full size machine and even a half sized one takes up too much room. I pretty sure I can cram all this in to say 16inch by 16 inch box, but them damn hazkoyen (or whatever they're called) hoppers and coin mech are too big!

Thanks lol, didn't want to sell it but am limited on space so am looking at the idea of using a laptop or something like that to make another. So am phishing for ideas of how small they can go.

So now my BIG cabinet has been sold, (boohoo) I wondered if anyone had built a cabinet using say a touchscreen laptop? I'm curious, how small and still being functional we can these in a small build format? This would have to include smaller coin mechs (I think someone on here had some off AliExpress), not sure how well they worked. Be better if they could be the old style tube pay-out as tubes are narrower than hoppers!

Not sure if this has been asked before.. Will these work in a home build cab, i.e. you can navigate via touch and still play with real coins and it payout etc.?

It's in for sale/wanted, get a bid in!