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Hoopz:

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--- Quote from: Hoopz on August 26, 2010, 02:46:49 pm ---Where are you located?  Someone here may be local to you.

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Southeastern Ohio. Near Cincinnati.

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WTF did they move Cincy from Southwest Ohio to Southeast Ohio?

 ;D

Let's see if anyone says they can help. I'm in Indy so it's not that far but not very convenient.
ragnar:
To be clear, you have an N64 in your cabinet, not Mame?

So, you need to hack the N64 controller to have it's controls be the controls on your control panel?

I'll jsut say what everyone else will.   IF you have an N64 and it's controllers, you already have the best controller for it.  You do not want to use a CP in this case.  Just hook the N64 up to a normal TV like it was intended.

G.Reef:

--- Quote from: Hoopz on August 26, 2010, 02:59:24 pm ---
--- Quote from: G.Reef on August 26, 2010, 02:53:59 pm ---
--- Quote from: Hoopz on August 26, 2010, 02:46:49 pm ---Where are you located?  Someone here may be local to you.

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Southeastern Ohio. Near Cincinnati.

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WTF did they move Cincy from Southwest Ohio to Southeast Ohio?

 ;D

Let's see if anyone says they can help. I'm in Indy so it's not that far but not very convenient.

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Uhh..woops  ;D


--- Quote from: ragnar on August 26, 2010, 03:01:38 pm ---To be clear, you have an N64 in your cabinet, not Mame?

So, you need to hack the N64 controller to have it's controls be the controls on your control panel?

I'll jsut say what everyone else will.   IF you have an N64 and it's controllers, you already have the best controller for it.  You do not want to use a CP in this case.  Just hook the N64 up to a normal TV like it was intended.



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Yes I have an n64 in the cab. But I need to hook the controller up with the buttons I have for the cab. I already tried and I gave up. If there's anyone local that can help I'd appreciate it, if no one's local I can just ship the buttons and controller to you.
SephYuyX:
Im a bit confused too.
So youre just running N64, and nothing else? Or youre running MAME and other emulators, as well as an N64?

If youre just using N64, dont bother with hooking up a control panel too it, N64 controller is the best thing to play N64 games. Using an arcade control panel setup is pretty annoying with N64, and unless you have the right kind of joysticks, that wont work right either.

If youre running MAME on a PC along with an N64 console, just use the N64 controller to play the N64, and use an IPac to hook up the buttons to your PC.

If you really do just have the N64 and thats it, and you want to use your control panel to play it.. uh, well.. it probably is possible to splice the N64 and hook it up, but that will require a bit of work to do.. I dont think you can just connect one wire to the other, youll have to hook it up with an HID or something.. idk.
bkenobi:
While the N64 would be best played with an N64 controller, it shouldn't be that difficult to make this work.  Open the controller and find the buttons you want on your CP.  Follow the traces back to a solder point (hopefully at least most will have something easy to work with) and solder leads to those.  Attach QD's to the wires and plug in the buttons.  


DONE!


...sorta.  The next step is the analog stick and D-pad.  The D-pad can be attached the same way as the buttons.  The analog stick...good luck!
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