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I'm thinking about using Peregrine Glove for Arcade Mame

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shponglefan:
It says it's a standard keyboard device, so yeah, it'll work with MAME.

Powerglove is way cooler though.

Le Chuck:
As a serious answer the device doesn't seem to be intuitive at all.  If you want to bore your guests by making them memorize a series of gestures to control a game made 30 years ago that was designed for a stick and a button then this device is great.  I'd classify it as an interesting development but not something that is necessary or beneficial to classic gaming.  Now if you wanted to design a game that you blocked balls using your hand then that would be cool but we already have that without the glove... wow... welcome to the future!

KeithPuetz:
"power gloves, its so bad.."

Lmao, dumbest tag line ever.

Anyway, it looks cool. Aaaand it's a nintendo product so having it on a nintendo cabinet just makes sense.
But, it's for the NES. I don't think it's compatible with the PC. Also, it's not military grade like the other glove. It looks. Well, like a toy (cheap).
I hear the controls on it are also frusterating compared to the other glove. But interesting none the less.

You guys say it's a normal PC device so it will work with mame. But the question is, will someone be able to use a joystick and use the glove in there other hand to make the simple demands (jump, shield, shoot) and have it detected as player 1. Or does it have to be one or the other? Also, would it work with two players? Each using a joystick. Will the gloves know what player it's for for each game?

I want to be the first one ever to do this.

I was sort of thinking about making a Tron cabinet, using a spinner in the middle of the cabinet also a joystick and one glove. I think the glove (not powerglove) would match it PERFECTLY! I think it would be one cool looking cabinet. If I find a completely trashed tron that I KNOW would be going to the dump I would completely restore it, paint it with some UV paint and make something unique out of it. But people nowadays that hold on to a tron cabinet think they are worth 2k and if I saw a trashed broken into pieces cab they will probably still expect 400 dollars for the damn thing. It's already happened before, I just tell them they are delusional. So I may start from scratch.

But if the tron idea fails I may just create a fix it felix cabinet with the glove.

What do you guys think would be cooler, and I don't mean particularly with glove, the tron cabinet or the new fix it felix that will match Mame as it the movie has many arcade cameos in it.

Sorry I like to brainstorm out loud. What ya guys think. Any opinion is appreciated.
I want to make something that community WANTS to see built. Something unique, never accomplished before.
I have a lot of ideas to make unique cabinets. I am sort of thinking to throw them all onto one unique cabinet but this seems impossible as I want to make a cabinet for each type of game. For example, one driving, one shooter, one 2 player joystick, one spinner cade. Right now I want to do a spinner cade, and like I said I am stuck between Tron and Fix It Felix.

PL1:
I suspect that readers of this thread are either not understanding or not sharing your vision for this project.

Le Chuck has posted wise words here about the potentially tricky nature of having a vision.


Scott

yotsuya:
I tend to agree with LeChuck on this one. Unless you have this great game that actually uses the glove in a natural manner, then you're just going to be shoehorning a controller into an situation that will, more than likely, be more trouble than it's worth.

The Star Wars Yoke is a wonderful device- but I wouldn't use it to play Arkanoid.

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