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Question about required inputs.
baritonomarchetto:
As most commercial cab pc-to-jamma interfaces docet, you can use one button (es. "Start") as "shift" button: when you keep it pressed, other keys will be sent by pressing the other buttons on the CP (es. ESC could be sent by keeping START and the red VR light); only when the "shift" is released, it will send it's own keypress (or whatever) so that you don't even need a dedicated button to change button map.
BadMouth:
As policy, I try to avoid needing to manually change things when switching between games.
To each their own though.
I've found the radio button useful as an extra button for oddball stuff.
For example in the 2005 version of NFS Most Wanted, the ESC key acts as a back button for the menus, but you are required to press Q in the main menu to quit the game.
Making my exit button post Q would mean I couldn't navigate the menus anymore, so I used the radio button to post Q. (actually an ahk script to change the key)
IIRC, I also used it to post F2 in Outrun2006, but that was before FXT.
Howard_Casto:
Well considering I'm going to have a yoke and a 360 degree wheel, occasionally changing things manually will be unavoidable. ;)
I could change modes via sending a serial command, but that's probably more trouble than it's worth. I'm not sure about what I'm going to do with the led controls yet.... I might have them running with the keyboard on the same teensy, but then again I have a ledwiz collecting dust..... it seems a bit overkill for this project though.
I'm not a huge fan of the shift buttons. I always forget the combos I setup. I always remember escape and pause, but anything I don't use too often ends up a mystery.
I was just thinking that it could default to the arrow keys, but maybe have r,f,d,g as a second, the maintenance buttons as a third (f2,f3,9 and tab), and something else as a fourth. I would rarely ever use the others, but when the need arose I wouldn't have to whip out a keyboard.
Yeah I'm pretty sure I want dedicated escape and at least one radio button. I'm just trying to figure out how to do a nice layout. I still haven't given up on the analog touchscreen idea either. I do have some psone screens lying around somewhere.
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