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Theoretical Maximum FrankenPanel (tm) inputs (for Otraotaku)

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paigeoliver:

You can also hack 4 gameport sidewinders to get 56 more inputs.

Then hack a serial game device (these use to be fairly common, I have a high end serial flightstick somewhere) to get those inputs.

Tiger-Heli:


--- Quote from: 2600 on June 08, 2005, 08:08:37 pm ---If you are going to throw in the GP-Wiz, might as well throw in A-Pacs and an Opti-PAC so you get mouse buttons.

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A-PAC doesn't add mouse buttons, although it would be viewed as an independent gamepad, so you could add about 40 of them and double the number of inputs -  :laugh:

--- Quote ---Also for theoretical maximum remember each USB controller supports 127 devices, subtract out a few hubs and that's a crap load of buttons.  You'll hit bandwidth constraints and CPU slowdowns before hitting the max number.

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It was pretty tongue-in-cheek, but I was trying to limit it to configurations that wouldn't allow the USB controllers to swap positions on re-boot.

2600:


--- Quote from: Tiger-Heli on June 09, 2005, 07:50:13 am ---
--- Quote from: 2600 on June 08, 2005, 08:08:37 pm ---If you are going to throw in the GP-Wiz, might as well throw in A-Pacs and an Opti-PAC so you get mouse buttons.

--- End quote ---
A-PAC doesn't add mouse buttons, although it would be viewed as an independent gamepad, so you could add about 40 of them and double the number of inputs -  :laugh:

--- Quote ---Also for theoretical maximum remember each USB controller supports 127 devices, subtract out a few hubs and that's a crap load of buttons.  You'll hit bandwidth constraints and CPU slowdowns before hitting the max number.

--- End quote ---
It was pretty tongue-in-cheek, but I was trying to limit it to configurations that wouldn't allow the USB controllers to swap positions on re-boot.

--- End quote ---

Mouse buttons were in reference to Opti-Pac only.  Yeah, the controller swap would be an issue but I thought you were out of MAME's range so it didn't matter. 

With current motherboards you'd have 4 USB 1.1 controllers and 1 USB 2.0 controller.  That is going to be a lot of power bricks with all those devices. 

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