Are quicktime events on MAME possible?

[BazookaJo]

I'm particularly partial to Sega's Star Wars Trilogy Arcade but miss the "Big Red Button".

I know some games flash the keyboard caps lock or num lock when credits slare entered.

Does something similar exist for these QT games events?

Cheers

Joe

[PL1]

I'm particularly partial to Sega's Star Wars Trilogy Arcade but miss the "Big Red Button".

I know some games flash the keyboard caps lock or num lock when credits slare entered.

Does something similar exist for these QT games events?

If a game had outputs like making the volcano button lights flash when you enter credits in Dig Dug (055-1:00), lighting which mission is selected in Lunar Lander, or firing the knocker in QBert, you can use a program like MAMEhooker or LEDBlinky to translate those outputs into commands that tell an LED controller board to light/extinguish an LED or energize/deenergize a relay that applies power to the QBert knocker solenoid.







For games that don't have outputs, it is possible to use AHK to trigger an event like the automatic 4-way/8-way switching for TRON in Le Chuck's Darkade or rockyrocket's Star Wars radar and trench run animation on a second screen.


Scott

[BazookaJo]

Amazing! - Some clever buggers out there... cheers Scott

[Curtishart001]

PL1 (or anyone for that matter) Is there a MAMEHooker for dummies out there anywhere? Been working on my Q*bert knocker assembly, using a PAC-Drive and an LED right now for testing on pin1 and a +5v on it. LEDBlinky recognizes it when I test it, but MAMEHooker doesn't seem to recognize anything.

"Show Supported Devices" only shows 'Force Feedback Devices' and when I run Q*bert on MAME 0.250 64-bit nothing seems to capture in the Debug window of it. And it doesn't create a qbert.ini anywhere I can see from an output.

Apparently, this setup is common because I see tons of YT videos showing this, but no one explains how to accomplish this I can find.

[PL1]

Is there a MAMEHooker for dummies out there anywhere?

Howard has a number of tutorials on his site where you probably downloaded MAMEHooker.

http://dragonking.arcadecontrols.com/static.php?page=mhtutorials

A few questions to make sure you've got some of the basics taken care of:

1. Did you already generate a "mame.ini" file?
- It's not automatically created when you install MAME.
- Don't even try to use one downloaded from somewhere else.

If you didn't, generate it using the "-cc" (create config) software switch. i.e. "mame.exe -cc"
- You only need to do this once.
- If you do it again, it will overwrite any changes you have made with the default settings.   

2. Did you set output to "windows" in mame.ini?

Open mame.ini in Notepad, scroll down to "OSD OUTPUT OPTIONS", change the default "auto"(?) to "windows", save, and exit.

#
# OSD OUTPUT OPTIONS
#
output                    windows

Scott