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PowerRamp MITE
CGRemakes:
I was wondering if many attempts were made in hacking the PowerRamp MITE gamepad:
http://www.act-labs.com/scripts/proddetails.asp?pid=38
It is PS/2 input, which would be nice for old DOS games. To me this would be a much better sollution to keyboard hacking, and I wouldn't think you would run into problems with ghosting. There are 16 programmable buttons (with the option to do even more with the macro switches). At 9.99 you can't go wrong if this is a fairly easy hack.
Valiam Arkais:
I've been to this site quite a bit lately and have not seen that gamepad. Looks cool even if you don't hack it. Hopefully someone has and they will share their experience here.
-Valiam Arkais
AlanS17:
I tried to hack a similar PS2 gamepad, but had less-than-stellar results. The solder spots were too small for me to work with. I suppose it all depends on what it look slike inside. It's certainly a cheap solution and probably more reliable than a keyboard hack if you can get it to work. Good luck!!
Tiger-Heli:
--- Quote from: AlanS17 on May 07, 2003, 01:38:10 am ---I tried to hack a similar PS2 gamepad, but had less-than-stellar results. The solder spots were too small for me to work with. I suppose it all depends on what it look slike inside. It's certainly a cheap solution and probably more reliable than a keyboard hack if you can get it to work. Good luck!!
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Check the example, it was the hot pad to hack when gamepad hacks were new around here. Not so good now that MAME supports USB and keyboard encoder are more reasonable, plus I don't know if it's still available.
CGRemakes:
I think the one that was big awhile back is no longer available. I found the link on this site that talks a bit about it, however, the gamepad I'm talking about is still available at the link I posted.