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| Witchboard:
This may be a little off topic, but somewhere on the same level. I've been waiting for this thread to resurface so I could ask. How hard would it be to make a LED driver that would light up buttons used in a game? Like if you play Defender, all the buttons the game uses lights up then when you change to Missile Command the trackball and buttons used for that game light up. I figured it could basically use the controls.dat, but the LED driver board would be the hard part to make. |
| REBIRTH:
--- Quote from: TheGatesofBill on May 25, 2004, 03:36:06 pm ---http://www.crystalfontz.com/products/index-grph.html They are pretty pricey though ($100+). --- End quote --- Which LCD on that order page is the one being used? Thanks |
| Silver:
Rebirth: I've got none of those - they are all much bigger. Mine is only a 24x8 characters LCD (thats 8 lines of text, with 24 characters on each line). But also much cheaper ;-) Mine is essentially the same one as the one sold on the http://www.pjrc.com/ website as part of there MP3 player project. They sell the LCD with some buttons for $42 at http://www.pjrc.com/store/mp3_display.html I presume its the same/similar to maraxle as he uses the same control codes as mine - again these are all listed on the pjrc website as mine has had its rom flashed with pjrc's rom. I got my LCD in the UK without any buttons off ebay - and i think others have got similar ones in the US off ebay too. I don't think it really matters if its not the same one - so long as it can be wired up to a com port via RS232 and the instructions to the LCD are documented. I'm still rewritting by little program to generate all the text files but its easy to set up different instructions for different LCD's. Witchboard: Yes a superb idea - its been mentioned before, and I seem to recall that it was the LAME arcade website that was attemped to kick the project off? there is thread a thread asking what happened to him/it at: http://www.arcadecontrols.org/yabbse/index.php?board=1;action=display;threadid=16989;start=msg162692#msg162692 but it seems to have died out. I don't know how they were thinking of wiring it up but I hope it gets back on track! |
| Witchboard:
--- Quote from: Silver on June 18, 2004, 07:00:34 am ---Witchboard: Yes a superb idea - its been mentioned before, and I seem to recall that it was the LAME arcade website that was attemped to kick the project off? there is thread a thread asking what happened to him/it at: http://www.arcadecontrols.org/yabbse/index.php?board=1;action=display;threadid=16989;start=msg162692#msg162692 but it seems to have died out. I don't know how they were thinking of wiring it up but I hope it gets back on track! --- End quote --- Haha.. I guess I got in this hobby a little too late. All the cool ideas are already taken! ;D Thanks for the link. |
| Silver:
Well I posted this in the listxml topic, but realise this is the more appropriate spot: Mame Lcd Gen 0.94beta - generate those control txt files for lcd display. This is pretty much the first program I've let loose to the general public. Please give it a try and let me know if it works for you etc.... Just point it at your roms dir, an empty destination dir, the listinfo.xml (sorry does not autogenerate from mame yet.....) and the controlsDAT xml (or just one of them) and it should do the rest. The defaults are for the PJRC LCD I own, but LCD instructions/headers can be entered manually. Or send me codes that work for you and I will add it to the drop down selection. Please note this is BETA software and hence will probably wreck your pc/steal your passwords/emails/creditcardinfo/adresss/soul. Support coming soon to MameWah. Found at: http://www.silverfoxy.plus.com/ PS: It uses the SAX parser in VB and I've stuck in a counter so you can see how fast it parses the xml's as it goes. To test just set up the xml locations and point it at a dud rom dir and it will parse the xmls. Its not max speed as its also DoEventing/refreshing the counter everyloop. EDIT: New Web Address |
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