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Super Hack Project
Mark70:
Would I be wrong in saying it would be a waste of time to try and include analog controls since mame doesn't really truly support analog? Doesn't it take analog input and just convert it to repeated digital input?
I don't know.
I play many mame games on my pc with a Wingman Digital Extreme. If you hacked it, you'd have 4 axis, and 15 buttons. I haven't found occasion to use more than that so far and I've played about 100 different games.
This could potentially give you
-a track ball using the z and throttle axis
-two joystick axis (I don't know what the guts look like but in windows calibration it will report any position. I don't know if it's more complicated than a combination of the info from two axis, or if it's a 360 degree thing.)
-15 arcade buttons from seven joystick buttons and an 8 position hat switch.
Again, I've never been inside one of these, so I can't say how hard or easy it would be to hack, but that's the potenital and you can pick them up from ebay for anywhere from 10 to 20 bucks.