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Question on basics - controls to PC interface and drivers
« on: January 07, 2015, 04:03:50 pm »
Once you get a cabinet with various buttons, sticks, etc all plugged into one of those distribution panels, how does that interface to the PC?  Through USB?  Are there special drivers for this that work only under certain operating systems?
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Re: Question on basics - controls to PC interface and drivers
« Reply #1 on: January 07, 2015, 04:05:25 pm »
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Re: Question on basics - controls to PC interface and drivers
« Reply #2 on: January 07, 2015, 04:07:39 pm »
Welcome to the forums Pdiddy.  There are a few ways to interface your controls with a PC but most people go with an keyboard encoder for the buttons and joysticks.  Here's some info.

http://newwiki.arcadecontrols.com/index.php?title=Keyboard_encoder

Some use a PS/2 connection while many use USB.

EDIT- Beat to the punch...
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Re: Question on basics - controls to PC interface and drivers
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Re: Question on basics - controls to PC interface and drivers
« Reply #4 on: January 07, 2015, 04:30:16 pm »
Thanks guys - as a followup question, once that joystick/button-hardware-to-PC interface and drivers are in place, do you then have to run each emulator separately so they use the buttons and sticks properly?
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Re: Question on basics - controls to PC interface and drivers
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