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New StandAlone Panel Build Idea
WhereEaglesDare:
Well Im at a point on my cab where Im pretty much done, waiting to get some cash together to get the art done for it, in the mean time I have two sticks and a bunch of buttons and Im going to build a panel.
I have an idea I dont know if it has been done. I want to put a USB Hard Drive or at least a thumbdrive in the panel and put a front end on it and everything that way you could plug it in to a buddies PC and wail on some 1943 or MK3. I figured I could load all of the SNES, Genesis, NES, and 100-500 of the best MAME Games with Art and the front end on a 8GB thumbdrive.
I could put an extension on a hub and plug my controller board on the hub and put the thumbdrive on the hub.
A couple of questions, if I try to run the MAME and the controller through the same USB cable will I get laggy controls? I cant use a powered hub. Any one try this before?
drventure:
For a while, I wasn't driving an IPAC and 2 U360s via a non powered hub and never noticed any issues at all. I doubt you'd see any lag in that kind of situation.
And I love this idea. A controller with the emu and some games all on one USB plug you could just plug in and go...
Very cool!
TheGameFan:
It would be cool if you could set a front end to auto-play, but I think each PC would need to be configured for auto-play to work.
WhereEaglesDare:
Had an idea last night, if I get use a power adapter for this then, it would a little heavier, but I could use a standard HDD, I would need a IDE-USB Adapter, but I could stop a lot more... In that case then I guess I might as well put a PC in there then huh?
drventure:
Yeah, but it'll need to be a good bit bigger. You'll need a mobo (probably one of those atom boards), a PS, possibly a vid card, HDD, and then the usb units you need.
BTW I'm pretty sure you can config a USB stick drive to autorun something when it's inserted. The use may have turned that off in the OS, but I believe that capability is there.