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Massive Newbie Questions!
Bob Ceccarelli:
Hyiu:
Thanks for all the sidewinder pages. I printed them all out and plan to use them soon!
Me:
Thanks for your tips but I'm afraid I can't afford $40 + tax + shipping PER JOYSTICK. If I had that kinda money to blow I could just buy an a whole arcade room.... lol. Good info on the TVs though...
neuromancer
Thanks for the info on the pushbuttons. Horizontal for sure!
I've got an old GRAVIS XTERMINATOR lying around. That thing must have 18 or more buttons on it... so I think one of those plus one Sidewinder will easily cover the 2 joys, the 14 game buttons, the 4 coin/start buttons, and the 4 menu/option buttons... 30 points grand total. Sounds like it should work juuuuust fine.
Bob Ceccarelli:
I was just thinking as I typed up that last paragraph from my last post...
Since I plan on using 2 different joysticks (non daisy-chained) would I be able to plug them in as two seperate USB devices? Can MAME recognize two seperate USB gamepads? If it can, then I think I'm pretty much set....
(sans all the other massive hardware I need to 'aquire' ;))
Mike:
Here is what I'd do. I'd get the fastest AMD chip that can go in your current motherboard. Which is probably like a 1.4ghz athlon. Then I'd get a newer motherboard that supports XP and has ddr ram and put that in your main computer. That way your set to put a faster processor in your main computer when your ready to. Then for the Video card I'd go with a Radeon VE if you only want one monitor going at a time if you want 2 I think you have to step up to the radeon VE. As for the supers they work fine. You'll probably want the Competition buttons you can push them faster. And the Ipac works great I have the ps2 version and I can playing fighting games no problem. The Keyboard hack will not support fighting games worth a darn.
Bob Ceccarelli:
Mike:
That's a friggin' great idea for the motherboard swap. I was thinking about it earlier but never really thought of it as a possibility.
Also, I will definately be using only one monitor. I'll be taking a look to narrow down which Radeon I need.
Thanks for the tips!
Bob Ceccarelli:
I'm going to pick up a Sidewinder on Tuesday for $5 at my local "Surplus Computers."
Until then I decided to crack open my Gravis Xterminator. It seems a bit more complicated then I would have thought. The analog joypad looks impossible to hack... not sure what to do with the trigger switch bits either.
Anyone kno w of any good tuts for hacking the Xterminator?