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Any plans or pics for rotary interfaces.
rdagger:
Are there any free plans available to build rotary joystick interfaces to allow LS-30's to work with encoders? I know Druin sells one, but I wanted to make my own. Does anyone have any close up pictures of rotary interfaces?
See below for my completed interface
u_rebelscum:
Doesn't Druin post his plans (or do you have to buy it)? AFAIU, it's a fairly simple circuit, if you understand electronic circuits.
Me, a software man, added some direct LS-30 support to mameAnalog+ (see sig). Only works with game that actually used 8way joystick - 12way rotary controllers like the LS-30. (With the druin/mk64, you can also play spinner, optical rotary, and some 8way rotary games.)
To use the analog+ stuff, though, you need 12 inputs, such as 12 keys or 12 buttons, per rotary, in addition to the normal 4 for the joystick part.
b3atmania:
--- Quote from: u_rebelscum on December 13, 2003, 06:48:57 am ---Me, a software man, added some direct LS-30 support to mameAnalog+ (see sig). Only works with game that actually used 8way joystick - 12way rotary controllers like the LS-30.
To use the analog+ stuff, though, you need 12 inputs, such as 12 keys or 12 buttons, per rotary, in addition to the normal 4 for the joystick part.
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Interesting. Does the mameAnalog+ software solution work with the 4-player I-Pac interface?
rdagger:
I don't think I can spare 24 inputs on the IPAC for my 2 LS-30's.
Thanks, I found the drawings. I wrote the software for the microprocessor today. Now, I just have to build a programmer.
u_rebelscum:
--- Quote from: b3atmania on December 13, 2003, 05:12:21 pm ---
--- Quote from: u_rebelscum on December 13, 2003, 06:48:57 am ---Me, a software man, added some direct LS-30 support to mameAnalog+ (see sig). Only works with game that actually used 8way joystick - 12way rotary controllers like the LS-30.
To use the analog+ stuff, though, you need 12 inputs, such as 12 keys or 12 buttons, per rotary, in addition to the normal 4 for the joystick part.
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Interesting. Does the mameAnalog+ software solution work with the 4-player I-Pac interface?
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Yes. Use the ctrlr ini files to remap; there is no default inputs for all the directions (aka digital input, aka button).