Brainstorming Thread for AE Cab: Open Tuesday (01/11) through Thursday (01/20)

Pricing will have to be 1.00, sorry guys. About the only constraint is that we do use the existing cabinets, however the joystick/button layout all needs to be changed up I.m sure.

1.00 is fine
inside 6 TE layout with sanwas is fine
sanwa flash’s with bat tops lol jk p360/sanwa/seimitsu will be good (whicher most prefer, im not SUPER picky, but ill bitch and blame the sticks if i lose lol)
i like sticks with more tension, but most like stock jlf tension
i dont really like gates, but with so many people playing charge characters, corners are important.

Below is a list of everyone’s suggestions so far. Even if an idea has been mentioned multiple times, it only goes on the list once.

Once everyone is done making suggestions, people will choose their top 8 from the list that they feel are most important, and that is how we will know which the community would like to see.

So with still a week left, there is a lot of time to keep coming up with suggestions not yet on the list.

The current list of suggestions: Updated 01/12/11

  • The same setup as before but with the buttons closer to the sticks.
  • Sanwa JLF sticks with sanwa buttons
  • Button layout matching the first 6 of a TE
  • Button Layout matching a vewlix cabinet
  • American joystick and American convex buttons
  • Cup holder that perfectly fits the glasses Acme uses
  • Cup holders below the controls where coin slots are
  • Ball top joystick
  • Bat top joystick
  • Coin Holders for your place in line
  • Placement and height of controls matching the vewlix cabinet
  • Cab opens for maintenance similar to VLX Premium
  • Quick Disconnects for buttons and a wiring harnesses
  • A port for HDMI, DVI or VGA output for hooking up to streaming
  • Cab modded to accommodate sitting down
  • A short chair/stool for each cabinet.
  • USB inputs for plugging in TE sticks
  • A single coin holder for both cabinets
  • A coin holder in a convenient place that does not disturb players
  • A coin holder with a slide-able arrow/marker to point to who is next
  • Multicolored and numbered slots on coin holder to keep track of your place
  • A plexiglass top designed to be easily removable to swap out art generated by the community
  • A place clearly designated for posting tournament fliers on the cabinet
  • A place clearly designated for posting tournament fliers in the arcade
  • A prominent spot in the arcade where spectators can clearly see and hype matches
  • Additional fighting games adjacent to the cabinets for people waiting through long rotations
  • Controls centered in the middle of the control panel for each display
  • A small discreet notch to hang a clipboard on when running tournaments so it doesn’t get misplaced
  • An available plug ideally nearby for charging cameras
  • Garbage can and recycling located in the arcade
  • Drink special arranged with bar for drinks/a specific drink for a specified night of the week
  • A prominent sign displaying the phone number for maintenance and instructions to call when maintenance is required
  • Super Street Fighter 2 Turbo as the side cabinet
  • Marvel Vs Capcom 2 as a side cabinet
  • Swappable joystick tops to accommodate player preference
  • Street Fighter II Hyper fighting as a side cabinet
  • Monthly tournaments
  • Leader-board rankings
  • Stripper pole
  • Sticks with square gates

Not that I went up to play alot, but I really didn’t like the stick very much on the original sf4 cabinet. Ideally I think that the stronger springed sanwa jlf would be what people want, they usually hold up to beatings from randoms as good as happ batt tops, the thing I see going out more from randoms are the actual switches (this is just from playing in arcades not from actually having to manage one of course) if you do want bat top I would really jsut like a looser stick than your average american one.

I do agree with deezo though the button layout needs to be closer to the stick.

This would have been legit!

So what kind of cabinet do acme have?

If I remember correctly the previous stick for the cab was very um unrestricted and i’m just gonna throw it out there and I think it was a circle gate (if there is such a thing, not too familiar with sticks and their internal parts yet xD ) and it was very annoying to get hit when I thought I was blocking low -.- , so me personally would like to see an Octagon gate so that it would be beneficial for all character use, such as Charge, 360, Shotos. As long as there is some restriction on the upcoming stick set up I’ll be perfectly happy and I hope others will too. (:

Oh and a “NO BUTTON MASHERS!!! $!@$@#” sign would be nice (:

im pretty sure they were american (p360s) so they had no gate. octo gates arent that great as a compromise between square and none. id honestly say go with the square since most people have one at home.

Probably some Happ Ultimate sticks. Happ sticks have no gates.

Today is the last day to add suggestions for what you would like to see with the new cab before we move on to voting on ideas. Once the list is complete, I will open a new thread where people can vote by selecting their top 8 suggestions they feel are important for the new cab and the AE setup.

The list of suggestions so far is listed under the first post, so if you have an idea you’d like to be considered that isn’t on there yet, be sure to post it up.