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Ideas for a YDKJ cab?
marcoval:
I'm designing my MAME cab and I'm curious if anyone has made their cab have specific support for YDKJ. I'm not just talking about one of the standard buttons working with the various keys, but setting buzzers like one sees on game shows? Anyone worked with these? Are they easy to work with and where might one get them?
P.S. YDKJ = You Don't Know Jack, the popular PC trivia game.
Odonadon:
Sounds like you're looking for this:
http://www.happcontrols.com/pushbuttons/954002xxxxz.htm
Odonadon
Brad Lee:
What about this-
The IPac has 3 buttons that are shared for the leds. If you have a led and a button hooked upto the same input, and push the button, the led lights- regardless of num/cap/scr lock status.
I may be way off but you could hook up a buzzer and a light to that input, which would be activated when 1 of the players hits a button
THe obvious downside is that you couldnt make it "not buzz" if someone hits the button between questions for example. Also there's only 3 shared buttons, so no 4 player
Another thought- you could do this with any input, as long as you used a button that was rigged to a SPDT(?) switch- use one set of leads for the ipac input and the other to close a circuit on something like a doorbell
Generic Eric:
From the examples page
http://www.arcadeparadise.org/console/ydkj
YDKJ is an awsome game. I went on an ebay raid to get the games. I also recommend buying Nero for its image drive program Find a program that will let you mount an image, that way you don't have to worry about swapping out cds.
I apologize for the pimp'n of nero.
SirPoonga:
Are they still making ydkj? because a single game gets old quickly.