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| darthpaul:
I'm keeping all the old software running on Windows XP, everything was working so no need to change. |
| DaOld Man:
Sorry about the old thread bump, but Ive been working with servos to mechanically switch the joysticks between 4 and 8 way, based on game (or emulator) selected. I use control choose (Mala plugin) to set the servos. Might post some pics later. |
| darthpaul:
Any update on this? |
| DaOld Man:
Sorry for the late update, but yes, Darthpaul. I am finished with the joystick servo project. Its working very good. Here is a pic of Player 1 servo, (I have a servo on both P1 and P2 Joysticks). Here is another shot of the same servo: And here is the servo controller I used: The controller can control up to 6 servos, of course I'm only using 2. The controller needs 5 volts Dc for power, and it talks to the computer via USB. I am using Control Choose plugin for Mala to tell controller to switch between 4 way and 8 way. Control Choose calls bat files that send servo positions to the controller. Control Choose sends 4 way or 8 way commands based on Mame game usage, and also for each emulator used. (Example NES uses 4 way). |
| DaOld Man:
Here are the bat files that controlchoose calls. They send a message to the maestro controller (app for the servo controller board), to switch joysticks to 4 way or 8 way. I had to change extension to txt for this site to let me upload them. These are batch files and have extension ".bat" in the real world. |
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