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Hoagie_one:
awesome.  I had the parts out to get started, but teh wife and child had different plans, lol
Trimoor:
Sorry I missed a few days.  I was being held in the Ministry of Love....

I got my interface working properly, but I'm having a couple of problems with the PPJoy driver.
I wired up the buttons randomly, and for the most part the driver allows me to assign them in any way I choose, but it forces a distinction between joy1 and joy2 at inputs 1-30 and 31-60.  It will not allow me to assign input 43 to joy1 or input 15 to joy2.  This is not a problem for MAME, but it can be for other games.

I have no ghosting/blocking problems, but then again I only have one column wired up.

PPJoy does not translate the buttons into keyboard presses.  It translates them into a windows game controller.
The LPTswitch program and SNESkey translate the buttons into keyboard strokes, but these programs crash on me.

I think the best approach is for someone to make the mapping files for SNESkey.  It supports both DOS and windoze, and it's very lightweight.  PPJoy is great, but it's windoze only, and the developer is no longer working on it.

I'll try more configs and let you know how it works out.
It's impressive that two of my ideas have actually caught on.  Now I can reap the glory..... ;D
brained:
I did it and It works!! :D. I just tested a 1 player 6 button config and it worked great.... when a get my new hole saw (again) I can drill them holes in my metal panel and get going. I hope this darn hole saw gets here quick, so I can try the interface with 2 player sf-neogeo layout!!

GREAT FIND TRIMOOR!!!
Lord Hiryu:
Nice to see that works, Brained!!
I spected to see how works with your 2 player layout.:)
Trimoor, don't worry about the "little" issue of the 2 players, rewired the conections are easy to do.
Pins 2-3-4-5-6-7 are the ground for palyer 1.
Pins 8-9-1-14-16-17 are the ground for player 2.
Btw, I hope that you find a program to manage the interface on Ms-dos as Ppjoy do on Win.
Good luck on your search!
Cheers.!
Trimoor:
I made a nice write-up of the LPT Switch on my web site if anyone wants to look.
http://www.trimoor.com/lpt_switch/index.htm
I sent a news item to saint, so it should appear on the homepage soon.

Lord Hiryu, the problem is a little more difficult than that.  I have the player 1 controls wired to a single column, not row, so it is rather difficult to change them.  I'm hoping someone can make a SNESKey config file for the LPT Switch, so can be made into a keyboard for DOS and windows, eliminating my problem.
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