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ok let's all tell a story on how we found BYOAC.
erictrumpet:
I discovered MAME(tm) about 3 years ago and enjoyed playing a few choice classics using my keyboard. Little did I know that, a) literally thousands of games are out there, b) real honest-to-goodness arcade controls are able to be purchased and interfaced with my computer, and c) I could actually have an arcade machine of my very own!!! This site was easy to find by googling "home arcade controls" or something like that, way back when I was just a pup in this hobby. And I am still very much a pup, judging by how hardcore some of this community is. :) Thanks to all who keep this site alive, it is really special.
Eric.
DrewKaree:
I read some story about emulation (for a Nintendo or some other such console) and figured there'd be a way to play a game or two that were in the arcades (HAH!) and was introduced to MAME. After playing several brazilian games with my keyboard, I was looking for more, and figured just like with consoles, they made some "realistic" controller for these things. I think MAME was in the high 50's or low 60's at that time. Did a little search, found this here site, and....did nothing with the info. Moved back to WI, decided to see what was out there since I had nothing to do at the time, downloaded several zip files worth of old forum posts. Read. Read. Read some more, then started at the last page of the newest iteration and worked my way forward to page 1.
Figured out how to answer for myself some questions I had about my Time Pilot, and started building a craplet that works for MAME. It worked so well, I pulled all the parts off of it and scrapped it until I could commit a decent effort from myself to it. Somewhere along the line I figured out that Everything Else was for....just that.....and I've been slowly drawn down into the ooze that comprises it.
Lastly, I hope someday to be buried in BrokenBones' CP ;D
spriggy:
??? From memory stumbled across the old 'ArcadeOS' site... this snowballed into ideas of chucking a Celeron 300 into an old 'WrestleFest' cab...... natural selection and 'HotBot' pointed me towards here.....
Generic Eric:
I was looking for walkthroughs on how to hack two dreamcast guns together for playing House of the Dead 2.
JONTHEBOMB:
I ran across this thread while searching.
Now I am itching to hear more stories.