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Mikezilla:

--- Quote from: BurgerKingDiamond on November 15, 2010, 02:24:46 pm ---Pad hacks are pretty easy. Have you wired up arcade controls before, or are you completely new? Dreamcast setup would be cheap ($30 for system, you can burn DC games for free, and you can hookup straight into a normal TV).  I would definitley say dreamcast.

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Im still really NEW, the extent of my knowledge consists of wiring up a JAMMA harness to a JPAC lol. I have a system already, and I burned a copy of it back in the day, and Im using a TV for my set up. My issue is wiring the controls. What is the process, is it hard?
javeryh:
What about NullDC?  Couldn't you just set up the emulator to run in your cab like MAME?
isucamper:
I've got it running on the makaron naomi emulator.  Need a little juice to get it going but it plays great.  Just have fun pressing the credit button 30000 times to unlock all the characters.
Jack Burton:
For something like a fighting game a console port is preferable to an emulator.  

Fighting game players care a lot about playing to a "standard" and usually the only accepted ones are arcade pcb's and console ports.  

The use of an emulator for this kind of game has a lot of unknown factors that would hurt the nature of competitive play.  You never know what sort of glitches, slowdown, input loss, or input delay could be involved.  

The DC version of Marvel is essential the golden standard and is the prime means of competitive play in the US, ahead of even the original NAOMI pcb.  

The PS3 version is also considered extremely good, and is used in the national championship.  


There are a few ways to connect your controls to a dreamcast.  You can of course hack a dreamcast pad.  It's not really very hard at all.  Just make sure that you read  up about the input delay caused by the dreamcast triggers and wire accordingly.  If you prefer not to do it there are members on this forum and other are happy to do it for a small fee.  

The second way and the one I recommend is to purchase a MC Cthulhu board and wire it up with a dreamcast cable.  With this you'll have a set of controls in your cab that can work on PC, PS3, and Dreamcast.  


Mikezilla:

--- Quote from: javeryh on November 15, 2010, 05:00:33 pm ---What about NullDC?  Couldn't you just set up the emulator to run in your cab like MAME?

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I thought of that, but I dont think the computer I have in there will run it ok considering it has stupid 3d graphics in the background.  :banghead:
--- Quote from: Jack Burton on November 15, 2010, 05:17:10 pm ---For something like a fighting game a console port is preferable to an emulator. 

Fighting game players care a lot about playing to a "standard" and usually the only accepted ones are arcade pcb's and console ports. 

The use of an emulator for this kind of game has a lot of unknown factors that would hurt the nature of competitive play.  You never know what sort of glitches, slowdown, input loss, or input delay could be involved. 

The DC version of Marvel is essential the golden standard and is the prime means of competitive play in the US, ahead of even the original NAOMI pcb. 
 
The second way and the one I recommend is to purchase a MC Cthulhu board and wire it up with a dreamcast cable.  With this you'll have a set of controls in your cab that can work on PC, PS3, and Dreamcast. 

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So would this MC cthulhu board interfere with my JPAC and existing controls? Or is it just some kind of adapter that ill have to switch everytime I want to go from MAME to DC?
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