DC controller help

[bleyl]

in arcade cabinets of street fighter, when you hit the start button during play a taunt is performed.  but in the dreamcast versions of street fighter games, you must hit the A button, followed by the start button.   what i was wondering is:   is there a way to map an extra button so that the A button is hit a split split second before the start button??  it might be hard to understand, its a ---smurfette--- to explain haha. thanks ahead of time

[Dave_K.]

If you buy a Madcats DC pad, you can program macros (program combos/mulitple button presses for some buttons).  Just read the manual.  Make sure the pad you buy has a macro feature (some cheaper ones don't).

-Dave

[CD_Vision]

It used to be that with SF, you had to release the button to make the attack come out. Maybe if you switch your button A from normally open to normally closed that might do the trick. Assuming you use a hack. I havent tried this myself yet.

[bleyl]

dave-  the only problem with that, is that i need to set a button to perform the macro.   what i was thinking is-  what would happen if i wired up the two buttons (A,and start)  to a single buttons microswitch?    would it blow out the controller port or what??  i dunno

[CD_Vision]

No, I don't think that'd blow your ports. What would happen instead is that it'd be pausing the game everytime you threw a jab punch.

[Dave_K.]

dave-  the only problem with that, is that i need to set a button to perform the macro.   what i was thinking is-  what would happen if i wired up the two buttons (A,and start)  to a single buttons microswitch?    would it blow out the controller port or what??  i dunno

No you will not harm the joystick port wiring both buttons to a single microswitch.  But they will be hit simultaneously (so I don't know if it will work since you said they should be hit one after the other).  A joystick which support macros is really your best bet.  But I guess there is no harm in trying this first.

-Dave