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LeedsFan:

This may be in the wrong forum I'm not sure. But anyway.... having built my own Mame cabinet earlier this year I got to thinking about something a little different. That cabinet used the standard J-Pac and Opti-pac etc. so there were no keyboard hacks as such.

But I'm now spending a lot of time playing Fianl Fantasy XI and anyone who has played that game will know that there are many many times when you have to hit Alt 1 or Ctrl 1 etc. for the macros in the game.  Is there any way to make a keyboard hack so that all I have to do is press a single key to activate Ctrl-1 for example?

So I could have keys 1-9 as Ctrls and numpad keys 1-9 as Alts but yet still have the keyboard letters open for the text as normal? Any advice much appreciated.

babydickonboard:

i've thought about doing the same thing for final fantasy XI.....it would be nice to have a dedicated keyboard for that game...... would be great to have the  macros set up with differnt buttons.  :)


Havok:

This might be something that would work for you:

http://www.compusa.com/products/product_info.asp?product_code=313060&pfp=SEARCH

Tiger-Heli:

I'm not exactly sure what you are asking, i.e. if you want to play Final Fantasy on your arcade cabinet, or if you want to play it using a computer keyboard or both together?  Anyways -

Keyboards are matrixed, so each button uses one wire from a row and one wire from a column.  I think you could make a single button press two keys, but you would basically want a double-pole, single throw switch (and maybe diodes) rather than a standard microswitch to do it.

If you are using a J-PAC and the latest WinIPAC IPD, you can assign up to four macros per config to any buttons you want.

If you are using a J-PAC or KeyWiz, you can assign one input to ALT, one input to Ctrl, and other inputs to 1-9 and then wire a button to both the alt and 1 inputs (to send Alt-1) using diodes.

AceTKK:

why would you want to play FFXI on an arcade cab?  If you're going to have to spend hours looking for a group or farming at least you should be in a comfortable seat right?

-Ace-

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