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| timsatari:
Hey all, Has anyone attempted a wireless cab project ie. with computer in one room / mame cab in another... |
| ashardin:
How would you do the controls? Hack a wireless keyboard? Seems much easier to do a remotely wired cabinet. Wireless would quite a project, quite an expense as well when you consider than you will have to transmit at least three signals. 1. controls from cab to the computer 2. Video from the computer to the monitor 3. Audio from the computer to the cabinet I don't have any idea how many simultaneous key presses could be done remotely as well. Maybe I'm missing something though, and someone else has figured it out. |
| Metimbo:
Mine has a wireless router in it networked to a PC in another room, if that is what you are asking. ~Tim |
| TheTick:
You'd need to hack a wireless interface for the controls. RF based keyboard and mouse (I've been eyeing the Logitech Wireless controllers). For the video and sound you'd need an RF based video transmitter (from Radio Shack and X10). All the RF based solutions I've tried are grainy at best. Thru a couple walls the video gets broken up. Don't get me started with my ex-roommates microwaving while I'm trying to watch a DiVX movie. I used the X10 MP3 Anywhere transmitters at my last house, before building a dedicated HTPC. Right now, I've dumped the HTPC and replaced it with a 30 foot S-Video and TOS link cable going from the Den's computer to my big screen TV. Quality is surprisingly good. I'm still looking at hacking wireless controllers for my stand-alone arcade panel as well. Response times suck with the wireless keyboard hack, and it has trouble with mutliple keypresses. The logitech controllers are fast, but the power saving features are a bit annoying. |
| SirPoonga:
I had a wireless gamepad that's probably work. Right now I just have my roms on this computer and network share them. |
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