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--- Quote from: Flinkly on April 28, 2005, 12:12:16 am ---well, enough for two pot based 270 wheels and four potted pedals for gas and brake. this is the most i could see myself using... if i'm right, that's 6 axes. i'd never see myself using two yokes. i guess i'm saying it's enough for me. so how about my hot swappable question? --- End quote --- Add clutch pedals and you're up to eight. |
| Tiger-Heli:
--- Quote from: Flinkly on April 27, 2005, 11:41:55 pm ---and as to the controller itself, lets say all my arcade equipment has 5k pots. if i set everything up in mame right, can i hot swap controllers? say a swap between a 270 degree wheel and a star wars yoke? or just flat out attaching a star wars yoke where nothing was attached before? i'm sorry if this has already been asked, but i have read this whole thread, just not recently. --- End quote --- AFAICT, you can hot-swap like this, but you will likely need to calibrate the newly installed controller in Windows. For that matter, if you are using DB25 connectors or the like, you could install different capacitors across the same pins on your SW yoke and 270 wheel and hot-swap even if the pots are different. |
| Tiger-Heli:
--- Quote from: krick on April 27, 2005, 11:13:04 pm --- --- Quote from: paigeoliver on March 19, 2005, 05:05:23 am ---It was windows 98SE, which is still very common among cabs and cabinet builders. I can't test it on XP because I don't have any identical USB equipment anymore. --- End quote --- From what I've seen, you can avoid the swapping problem by: 1) using a motherboard with more than 1 pair of ports, and 2) plugging devices with identical IDs into different port pairs. Each pair of USB ports on a motherboard is tied to a single USB controller that shows up in device manager. Most current motherboards have 8 ports. 2 pairs on the back panel, and two pairs accessible via motherboard headers for front panel USB or extra ports on a bracket. 4 pairs = 4 controllers. Items should only be able to swap when they are both attached to the same controller (plugged into the same port pair). --- End quote --- Good information, thanks Krick. Just want to add that for an older mobo, you can add a PCI add-on card with USB ports which would be seen as a separate controller and avoid the problem as well. |
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