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Trenchbroom:
--- Quote ---I have a bunch of MS Sidewinder gamepads.
As for hacking, are these adequate for games like Gunsmoke(8-way joystick, 3-fire buttons,2-start buttons)?
How about Mario Bros. or Joust?(Both of which use two 2-way joysticks, 1(jump/flap) button, and 2-start buttons)?
Thanks.
Darren Harris
Staten Island, New York.
Searcher7@mail.con2.com
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MS Sidewinders (gameport) work great, if you find them cheap enough. I found them on the net $8 apiece. Only needed 2 to finish out my 2 player 6-button per player cabinet. No ghosting problems and everything works as it should.
So for someone w/ two spare gamepads and a little soldering experience I would highly recommend it. If I had to do it over again I would by an I-PAC. Even at $8 apiece for the Sidewinders. Price is small, no soldering and, as testimony above indicates, it is too TOO easy to get it up and running w/o a hitch.
mw:
The keyboard hack will work!
I used the I-Pac because:
1) I didn't want to spend the time doing a hack.(Cheaper for me to buy I-Pac than hack keybrd)
2) I hadn't soldered in several years.
3) I-Pac is just plain easy and it works !
4) Wife wants to play Ms. Pacman when she gets home, not have me with wires strung everywhere trying to explain that it didn't work right.
I'd recommend the I-Pac and looked at all kinds of industrial decoders before choosing it. Haven't had a problem yet with 2-kids banging on it. Like I said you can do a keyboard hack and it will work for 2 players, but for the money and easy of use I'd recommend the I-pac.
I wish the I-pac was around back when I was hacking keyboards for Flight Sim. :P
Agent Davis:
IPAC is the greatest. Keyboard hack is old skool and was done before the IPAC came along. Now there is no point in hacking a keyboard.
WiZeR:
Hi
Well since admiting defeat and deciding to go with the IPAC i have now changed my mind yet AGAIN! It's BACK to the HACK! :)
The reason I decided to go for the IPAC originally was cost... I decided Mike was right in that i'd end up spending more because I didn't have a solder iron, T-blocks, etc.
But since then I have managed to aquire everything I need for the hack for FREE! (my favourite price!) i.e.
Free Solder Iron (Thanx Rugs)
Free Solder (Thanx Rugs)
Free Keyboard (Got 3 Identical Keyboard from work that were spare)
Free Kynar Wire (Thanx again Rugs)
Free Terminal Blocks (Thanx Dan)
I still wanted to learn about the hack and I am only starting on a 1 player desktop control.
lol ;D BUT I have run into a small problem.
I have mapped out my matrix, but have done it different to how it is done here http://www.mameworld.net/emuadvice/keyhack2.html (look at the bottom)
The way I have done it looks like this http://www.wize.demon.co.uk/mameproject.xls
I want it to look like the one on mameworld. Whats gone wrong.. Can anyone tell me?
kamakazi:
I am using a keyboard hack, using standard mame keys, for two sticks, 6 buttons each and 4 control buttons.
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