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Minwah:

--- Quote from: kevin on June 09, 2004, 05:47:20 pm ---Do the beatmania/hiphopmania games really use a spinner? I thought the turntable was just a fancy mechanism for hitting one of two (clockwise/counter-clockwise) switches. As long as the turntable is moving, the button is 'pressed'.

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If that is so, then chances are it is not properly emulated in MAME.  Like SNK rotary sticks are treated as dials I believe, but do not use optics...
Minwah:

--- Quote from: rchadd on June 09, 2004, 07:53:58 pm ---i am thinking of building removable CPs for my cocktail cab and so currently thinking of builiding one CP with a spinner (i plan to have another with a TB and 3 buttons - for missile command;)

just wondering how many fire buttons would be required for a spinner CP?

i suppose most spinner games don't need many fire buttons.

would just 1 fire button be sufficient or more required?

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I'm building a trackball/spinner/analog stick panel atm...so I have 3 buttons for Missile Command, and that should cover spinner games.  I think some spinner games use 2 buttons, oh, and Blasteroids uses 3.
NoOne=NBA=:
Star Trek uses 4.
kevin:

--- Quote from: Minwah on June 09, 2004, 08:49:00 pm ---
--- Quote from: kevin on June 09, 2004, 05:47:20 pm ---Do the beatmania/hiphopmania games really use a spinner? I thought the turntable was just a fancy mechanism for hitting one of two (clockwise/counter-clockwise) switches. As long as the turntable is moving, the button is 'pressed'.

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If that is so, then chances are it is not properly emulated in MAME.  Like SNK rotary sticks are treated as dials I believe, but do not use optics...

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I'm just going by what I've observed while playing beatmania/hiphopmania in MAME. I've only had the chance to play it in arcades a few times. When the subject of beatmania as a spinner game came up, I just knew that mame treated the turntable as buttons and not a spinner. Someone who has experience with the actual arcade hardware would likely know for sure.

-Kevin
rchadd:
If i implement a removable CP with just a spinner and 3 buttons - will i still be able to control the FE? For example will the spinner allow me to scroll up/down and select a game in the list?

Or would I have to use one of the joystick CPs to use the FE?

Currently undecided on which FE to use - currently thinking about using MameWAH. Any recommendations?

The only thing with MameWAH is that it doesn't allow different emulators in the same game list - or am i wrong???

basically i would like all playble games listed in a single list (mame,espxe,daphne,pc games). it should support both horiz and vert displays. ideally it would support joystick, TB and spinner control operation.
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