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Gamepad Emulator why not?
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shmokes:
I'd be super interested, mainly for 2 player Virtua Tennis (and I don't even have a 4 player panel).  I'd just like to play two player on the control panel rather than having one person on the panel and one standing there with a gamepad.
Inaba:
Would still be fundamentally the same.  The more I think about this though, it might be kind of ugly once finished.  If you set this up like the above, you'd be virtually unable to use your keyboard in Windows, as youre keystrokes would be translated into joypad input... so you'd have to control windows strictly with the mouse while the driver is active.

Not a show-stopper, but would make it a pain to use.
allroy1975:

--- Quote --- If you set this up like the above, you'd be virtually unable to use your keyboard in Windows, as youre keystrokes would be translated into joypad input... so you'd have to control windows strictly with the mouse while the driver is active.
--- End quote ---

Right, that's why I suggested a seperate executable.  That way you could load it, THEN load the PC game...ie Virtua Tennis and close it when you go back into MAME.

I'm in love with this idea, and if it's possible I REALLY want to do it!  :)
allroy1975:
does this help at all?
http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/intinput/hh/intinput/di_4yuh.asp
grafixmonkey:
why not just hack a few USB gamepads, and do what I did with my CP and its standard molex connectors?  i.e. Molex connector pin 7 is "up" for any joystick plugged into it.

Unplug the molex from the ipac, plug it into the gamepad.  Or just leave it in the gamepad, if that still works for mame.

At least, it's probably less effort than writing the program.   :P
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