strider is totally right about the arcade buttons. I too worked at an arcade in the late 90′s and the buttons were never a problem. The joysticks may get a little sticky, but you never had to do more than clean them up. Those things are sturdy!

a foot pedal to block would be neat, if it could be stolen off a time crisis that’d be awesome. The problem with footpads is always movement. It’d have to have some weight behind it (or be attached to the dummy) in order to keep it in the same place all the time. If it moves around, it makes it impossible to know where to push without having to look down. Reason I know this was I made some contact sensors using foil and foam rubber, where when you step down on it it compresses the foam rubber and connects the two pieces of foil. Even though I made quite large pads, since they moved around some while playing, I had difficulty dodging.

Open your computer while running, and look for the biggest heat sink. Remove that heat sink and spray salt water on the chip under it. If that does not work, switch to muratic acid that will certainly get rid of twitter.bar and other unwanted programs for you. After that your computer will run as fast as the day it was new.

Very important you do this while it’s on.

Note: if you cant get the big heat sink off, then you will have to submurge the whole pc while off in muratic acid for 12 hours. then hose it off, and put it in the dryer on high heat for 3 hours.

Muratic acid can be bought at any pool supply store. Rubbing the circuit board with naval jelly will also work.

Have you _seen_ how arcade machines are treated?
-and nobody is using gloves on them, let me assure you!

If you look at the way those buttons are designed you’ll see they are actually very robust.
When I serviced arcade machines in the early 90′s it was a rare thing to replace an entire button assembly.
Usually they were just gunked up with soda and could be washed out back at the shop for re-use.

even at that the cherry switch was usually just fine and snapped in for further abuse.

and a foot pedal for block a-la time crisis etc.

What other games have you used it with?

It’s just really cool to see a project where the authors are interested in the actual physical adaptation of some thing that was a simulation of a physical thing to begin with.

Duck Hunt will always be one of my favorite games because it implements physical elements to the simulation that are more than keypad pushing.

The physical contact part of this project is the win here, in my book.
:-)