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Yeah, burger time is a bit infuriating. Before I started playing it again, I thought to myself, it should be a piece of cake now that I’m an adult. Nope, there’s a reason those bastards always got me back in the day, and still do today.

I forgot to mention, I bought an MKII control panel off someone for $10, and then he’s like, “you want the monitor, too? I was just gonna toss it.” He says it didn’t work but he never fiddled with it. So that monitor has the pcb in the back, too. So, one day, I’ll check and see if the thing works, but otherwise, I plan to mod that control deck with a trackball and do a vertical screen mod, probably with my Pac Man machine. I just don’t know which trackball to get.

I am also waiting on some Sinden lightguns with recoil. If you’re not familiar with them, they are compatible with lcd screens by putting a white border around the edge of the screen that the guns essentially use for calibration.

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I need this! Do you have the thread handy?

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Legochuck’s thread

My thread

I actually also followed u/madmexicano’s thread and hooked my stock volume switch to a mini amplifier chip, a PAM 8803, and back to the stock speakers. This allows me to control the volume with the stock switch.

I also used the IcculusPlan for using the stock on/off switch to power on/off the raspberry pi.

Oh, I forgot to explain why I had to modify legochuck’s design. He glued the “key” down to make it work. His hardware must also be slightly different than mine because the throw on the joystick wasn’t quite far enough for me, so I had to widen the gate a bit. I added a cap that fit on the key and has a little protrusion that fits into the flathead groove on the base of the stick so that I wouldn’t have to glue it. Printing it in pla was too brittle but petg works great.

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So young, healthy folks have interior problems?

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We try not to CT younger folk, so I’m referring to people in their early 30’s when I say yes. It’s completely possible that the teenage through early 20 crowd is completely unaffected. That’s also the crowd that feels invincible and doesn’t typically go to the emergency department for any little thing. But, if you get a chance, look up multisystem inflammatory syndrome in children.

The issue that a lot of people don't realize is the amount of inflammation in a lot of asymptomatic people's lungs. It's too early to know what is going to happen in the long term, but this absolutely has the potential to affect an athlete's exercise tolerance for life. Source: I am an emergency physician and see this every shift.

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If COVID was around that early we’d be seeing the same hospital and death statistics spiking as well. I don’t get the logic.

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Interestingly enough, there was a new-ish phenomenon going around the last half of last year that was attributed to vaping. Gives the same type of lung findings as COVID-19. COVID-19 was not a known entity at the time and there was no testing for it, and our traditional laboratory tests for COVID-19 are not consistent with infection. So who knows.

To the OP's question, I had the worst "man cold" that I have ever had back in January and was in bed an entire day. I may or may not have had a mild case. I'm an emergency physician for reference.

I have a cousin who has COVID-19. He is 2.5 weeks into it and is still highly symptomatic. Can't do a thing without feeling like he is going to collapse. His oxygen saturation has improved, however so he's likely going to recover. We (as a medical community) don't know if there is a weaker strain of the virus and a stronger strain or if it's a based upon viral load exposure. Or both.

Love Tigerdroppings! My wife calls it Tigerpoop.

Thanks! I might try to pick that up.

It does look fantastic, much better than I thought it would. I hope the boss approves and I can find space.

Does anyone have any input about the GRS flight yoke that's on kickstarter currently? Here's a link.

Just a little info about the wheeling and dealing going on on my end. After beginning January with no cabinets, I scored my first two, Pac Man and Golden Tee, from Marshall's. I struck a deal on OfferUp for a TMNT from someone for a decent price. I upgraded my Pac Man with a good deal on the Costco version with a lighted marquee and stool. I sold the stool to someone on OfferUp who said, by the way, my friend works for Arcade1Up so let me know if there are any cabinets you want.

Apparently, Arcade1Up's been out of the Pac Man stool for quite a while so that's all this guy was missing. Within a day, I got a Star Wars cab and a limited edition Marvel cab for pretty cheap. So now I'm up to 5 cabs for $920, which actually might get better with a few other deals as well.

I plan on doing a 4-6-6-4 mod to the controls on the TMNT. I might do a vertical mod on the Pac Man to add some classics like Dig Dug and Centipede.

One question is, should I add a rollerball to my Pac Man cab? That kickstarter link above has an option to get the yoke, a Tron joystick, a GRS spinner, and a GRS rollerball. So I could add a spinner and a rollerball, but would that make my control panel too cluttered?

I'm hoping that someone figures out how to use the Arcade1up Star Wars yoke with a PC or a Pi. If not, however, the kickstarter yoke would be a good option to allow me to add more recent Star Wars games to that cab. However, it would cost close to what I paid for the Star Wars cab to begin with.

Has anyone tried out the retropie release for the Rpi4 yet? My Rpi4 should be arriving today and I’m eager to try it out! I saw I think it was ETA prime’s video about loading retropie onto the 4 via raspbian I think it was, but that was before the new release came out.