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Keyboard Hack
Mike:
The keyboard hack is not as cheap as it appears. You'll end up buying like $20 worth of stuff from radio shack to do it. And thats half the price of the ipac. I wouldn't bother doing it. If you can't afford $40 for the ipac I'd wait and save up the money. To do the keyboard hack you'll have to buy soldier for small electronics, twice as much wire as you'll need for an ipac since you can't daisy chain the grounds, and you'll probably have to buy terminal blocks. The keyboard hack is good for games like pacman and space invaders but is terrible on any games where 2 players play at the same time.
jjanis:
My I-Pac came in the mail today (man that was fast, all the way from Europe!)...
Thought you might like to know... Keyboard hack is the stepping stone drug to bigger and better methods.
Thenasty:
Lot os us here probably started out with a keyboard hack (including myself) and at the end, converted to using the Ipac or other keyboard encoders.....If you wnat people opinion, take it from us and get the Ipac (cheaper than any encoders I know). But you like to be adventurous (like I did) try out the keybord hack first.
Lilwolf:
Consider a joystick hack before a keyboard hack.
They don't have the ghosting or matrix problems that keyboards do.
and you will throw away any keyboard hack you do after a bit if you really use it. keyboard hacks just suck!
Magnet_Eye:
Man, you're fooling yourself if you think a keyboard hack is cheaper/better than paying $40 for an I-Pac. A keyboard costs money...you might have an extra or got one free. ok. but TIME is MONEY. You can't go wrong for $40. If you want to hack the keyboard and play and learn go for it. but as far as a MAME machine goes, the I-Pac is best solution.
Good Luck! ;)
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