Main > Main Forum
Connection to PC and consoles?
JamesMolloy:
Is there some way to be able to plug PS2, Dreamcast and PC to your arcade controls in an easy switchable manner?
As much as I like MAME it would be nice to play Ikaruga, Soul Calibur and Virtua Fighter 4 when I feel like something more modern.
rampy:
--- Quote from: JamesMolloy on April 04, 2003, 10:55:39 am ---Is there some way to be able to plug PS2, Dreamcast and PC to your arcade controls in an easy switchable manner?
As much as I like MAME it would be nice to play Ikaruga, Soul Calibur and Virtua Fighter 4 when I feel like something more modern.
--- End quote ---
here's a link for ya
quickly: A. hack a console controller (see link) and get converters for different sytems
B. Get an x-arcade PCB and get the different adapters...
C. hack a billion different controllers and figure out some new magically way to switch between them without one consoles controller interfering with the other consoles controller (i.e. isolate them electrically from eachother)
Good luck!
rampy
radiator:
i have a question about this...
i plan on having a pc and dreamcast in my cab...for pc, buttons hooked up through my ipac, and for dreamcast the buttons will be directly wired to the pad (hack) - just want to know if this will be ok (no interference), as long as both machines aren't on at the same time?
*m
AX:
I thought of this but decided against it. somehwhere somehting is going to go wrong no matter how careful you are. What I am doing is making my control panel easily removeable na dmaking a sep control panel for console games.
seaner:
You should be safe as long as only one is powered on at a time.
You're doubly safe if you aren't also driving 5V or something into either system. ie. if your controls all work by grounding switches.