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| JB:
--- Quote from: NoOne=NBA= on August 06, 2005, 06:39:42 pm --- --- Quote from: JB on August 06, 2005, 06:23:17 pm ---If you don't want to make a new control panel, you could add a pair of DB-9s and use 2 pairs of 2600 paddles. It'd pr'ly work better than rotating sticks anyways, IMO. --- End quote --- Except that you wouldn't have any interface to the computer for them. The best handheld workaround that i know of is to interface to an analog stick, and use similar pots (usually 100k) mounted in small Radio Shack project boxes with a single button on each, out the side. They will show up as two analog joysticks with multiple buttons. You can then map the buttons/axes to the appropriate controls within MAME. You could also mount the pots directly into the CP somewhere, and get an arcade cabinet version of this. --- End quote --- Fudge. Forgot that. I figured he was gonna be adding an interface either way, and DB9s required minimal alteration to the existing CP. But didn't consider the wide variety of pots available, which makes them a pain in the ass. |
| mark shaker:
Pots? Will that work? I thought that the arcade version of Warlords was optical. I thought that I might try to hack my Supers by fixing a optic wheel to the end of the shaft. And doing something similar to fl0yd's 49-way rotary hack to fix the sensor. Are there any joystick shafts out there that will fit a super and have a screw hole on the bottom? - Mark |
| Kremmit:
--- Quote from: mark shaker on August 06, 2005, 07:59:46 pm ---Are there any joystick shafts out there that will fit a super and have a screw hole on the bottom? --- End quote --- Any Super shaft, after you drill it. ;D |
| mark shaker:
--- Quote from: Kremmit on August 08, 2005, 06:31:01 pm ---Any Super shaft, after you drill it. --- End quote --- |
| Kremmit:
Heck, a piece of inner tube wrapped around the shaft would keep it from getting scratched. |
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