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anyone else want xbox or ps2 on their mamewah?
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mud409:
you're just assuming I wont have the xbox in the cabinet or controls hooked up to the xbox.. any fighting game on the xbox uses the d-pad and that's all I really want from the xbox. and I'm pretty sure there's an arcade controller out there for the original xbox that can switch between d-pad and analog. I need to do something with these xboxs just sitting around as well...

I guess I never explained the whole thing.

The idea is to have a PC and xbox (eventually multiple xboxs) inside a cabinet all running off of one dashboard, on one screen, and one set of controls. svideo into pc from xbox on PCI videocard (also being used to clear the motherboards boot screens) and usb in for anything extra. Then output is to a regular 15khz arcade monitor on arcadevga. j or i pac for pc controls and then I'm sure I have enough random xbox crap sitting around that I can piece together some controls for it.


The PC dashboard is why I came here... Mamewah will have a menu of xbox games setup with a folder of those bat's that will trigger the xbox to load the game and then a macro will load the window containing the svideo in from the xbox. Then to turn the game off and go back to mamewah there's a reboot function in xbmc that you can access through raw quotes and I really shouldn't need to explain the process for the rest here, because I'm looking to get it explained ;D
No scripting needed for the controls because you just strip the menu of the xbox dashboard so any key presses are nonfunct. only way to load the game or a functional xbox dashboard is through ftp. I'm rather sure this wont be an issue for mamewah either.

The problem we're having now is loading a directory of bats into mamewah, we can get individual rom names to load e.g. gamename.bat but when we try the generic  ones like [romname].bat it wont work... any ideas?

I'm not really familear with mamewah but the guy I'm working on the project with is. He said he ran into this problem before with another emulator he setup on mamewah but can't remember how it was fixed... I'll have him post this problem more specific.

Turnarcades:
That does make things a bit clearer.

However, this seems like a lot of software messing just to add a console to your system. I have built several machines with PC/console functionality for myself and for customers, as the intended point was the same as you: To play some arcade-stylee games with arcade controls. Some notable titles for me were The Tekken games, Soul Edge, Toshinden etc. and a few others back on PS1 (when analogue controls weren't that common).

What I do instead is to either use a CRT monitor and a VGA Box to connect the console to the display, then hack a couple of cheap joypads and solder them to the microswitches on my arcade controls. Alternatively, I use a decent quality old TV and plug the console into the SCART socket and the PC into the S-video port.

I understand your desire to get an 'all-in-one' menu system, but hooking your X-Box direct to your PC and then into the TV and using networking access seems like a lot of trouble just to get that effect.
SGT:
Can you not use U360s with the XBOX to have the analog capability?  The "trouble" of using network access seems miniscule once you know the FTP commands.  I mean both machines are already ethernet capable.  An ethernet switch isn't necessary with a crossover cable.  I guess I just don't see that its a ton of work to achieve the desired result.
mud409:
Bah, no CRT monitor, this cab has had 3, all of them have died (even with case off and back of the cabient off). TV is crappy. Arcade monitor all the way. Even if it does look shittier on xbox games, xbox games aren't the top priority of this cabinet. If I did anything TV/Monitor wise I'd go HD LCD so I could cut the weight of the cabinet down and have more space in it...

I've done the whole vga box into arcade monitor before using megalo 410's. it's nice but it can't run multiple units on 1 screen with out a switch.

The PC that's going into the cabinet already has a PCI card in it that's going to be used to disable the motherboards boot screens and has svideo in for the xbox. It should be able to display this svideo in through the arcadevga card no problem... if not there's usb svideo conversions that I'm sure will work...

I'm sure I have some perfect xbox or ps2 generic controllers sitting around here that I can splice into for controls.

Regaurdless of the integration to mamewah I'm putting the xbox on the cabinet, and if I can integrate it into mamewah why the hell not?
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