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I won! Discs of Tron Arcade control Panel (ebay)
jjanis:
Hey, you guys are the best... I didn't even get the thing yet, and didn't have to ask, and already I know exactly how to get this thing working cheaply without any (forseeable) problems! (Assuming that the up/down on the spinner map like a regular ol' button).
Thanks for the link! http://home.socal.rr.com/gsimpson/
So I'll get a $10.00 Walmart mouse... I have a hacked keyboard in a controller that works really well (It's almost overkill for the Tron controller) which I'm about to replace with the I-Pac anyway - It's supposed to be a 3/4 player add on to the Hot Rod, but the HotRod/Keyboard seem to conflict, when 4 players are going crazy on TMNT all at once. Hopefully the I-Pac will let me either use them both linked together, or allow me to use both USB and PS-2 together at one time... (Has anybody successfully used USB and PS-2 together at the same time?)
Anyway, thanks!
jjanis:
Oh, man, I just noticed my other wildest dream... Sold on ebay a little over a week ago! Oh, MAN!
It's an arcade control panes for the game 720... I love that game and would nearly kill to be able to reproduce it at home.
http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=1078433175
I wonder if porting that to the PC would be possible?
Lilwolf:
As for the 720... I've almost bid on one at least 10 times. That one went for more then most. I've passed up on just the stick for 30 bucks. Sometimes you find them without the ocntroller board and thats when you can get them cheap (since you don't care).
why did I pass on them..
I don't know if I could get it to work with mame. The mouse mame drivers don't seem to have the controls working well. I don't think you could hack it to always point in the right direction.
If you find another one, and bid/win. Let us all know if you can get it to work. I LOVE 720! (I used to play it so much that my hands would hurt!)
tron:
I don't think mouse hack works:
You would have to get sooo accurate settings...spinning 1 or 10 rounds would spin exactly 1 or 10. That could be possible with exact settings, but I've tried it using tronspinnermousehackwithoutacceleration, the problem is:
Often when you bump into objects, and fall, skater changes direction...If you were pointing "downwards"(with a spinner)before landing on knees....when you get up skater can be pointing in quite different direction compared to your previous spinner/joystickspinnerhack position.
Sorry to bring the bad news.
I wonder what would be the right approach for 720 hack...???
But now my problem will be starwars hack, won the controller auction... Prepare for dual strike questions Lilwolf :)
jjanis:
As for 720, I was thinking that since the controls have to be so darned precise, and that MAME handles the controls in it's own little way, one way to do it might be to go into the MAME code itself, and make your own private build to set up that one game to work properly for how your specific controller works.
I have no clue how tough that would be, and even then if it could be made to work right. It would seem that a mouse hack wouldn't likely work, because the directions are so un-specific with a mouse hack. It seems to me that it would definetly be impossible to avoid having it get out of synch with the direction of the little man on the screen.
I can't immediately picture the digital solution either, although... I don't know anything about this stuff, just thinking out loud I guess.
It would be really interesting to hear if anybody has successfully gotten 720 to work properly with MAME!
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