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goldenageofarcade:

Hi, I'm hoping to build a new panel for my 4-player MAME rig with controls that will allow 4 players to play Warlords.  What's my best bet?  The only out of the box option that seems somewhat feasible I've found are the Groovy Game Gear spinners, but they only seem to work up to 3 linked not 4.  I see the A-Pac would allow 4 pots to be hooked up, but I can't think of a way to harness the pots in a useable form factor for actual gameplay.  Has anyone else built such a setup?  Is this doable?

PL1:

I think your best bet is to get 2 master and 2 slave TT2s.

*** Make sure that you get a different "USB Device Number:"  for the second master. (Pulldown menu on order page) ***

Master spinner cables will come soldered to the X axis of the TT2 encoder.

Connect each slave spinner to the Y axis of a TT2 encoder (Avoid Z axis -- IIRC Windows handles Z axis with 4 steps per transition instead of 1)

Enable multimouse in MAME.


Scott

goldenageofarcade:

I'm running MAME circa 2003.  I'm guessing I'll have to modernize to make this work?

PL1:

If your version of MAME supports multimouse, you are good to go.

Not sure if multimouse was in MAME back then.  :dunno

Try opening up your mame.ini in notepad and doing a find for "mouse".


Scott

EDIT: Multimouse added in 0.117u1, 19 July 2007.
2003 MAME releases were in the 0.67 to 0.77 range.

matsadona:

I would definitely go for a potentiometer setup. Why, because you would get the "right" feeling and it would be cheaper.
If you don't want to buy an A-Pac board, buy some cheap standard PC controllers (with analog joysticks) and hack them.

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