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8 to 4 way Top Adjustable Sticks?
Ginsu Victim:
Though I don't see the need to use the digital output if you're able to run it via USB, yes, you'll either need the wiring harness or you can hack a firewire cable (the kind that hooks up to your motherboard. It has the same 2x5 pin structure.)
You don't need to do this, though. If nothing else, create a batch file that loads the appropriate map for the emulator or game, then starts said emu or game.
Using a frontend that supports external programs, though, you just need to have it change the map before a game, run the game, then on exit change the map back to whatever default you'd like. Very simple. (You're WAY over-complicating this!)
cadmium:
--- Quote from: GinsuVictim on August 29, 2008, 03:31:27 pm ---You're WAY over-complicating this!
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Nah, if I can wire it through my I-Pac, I don't have to do anything in my front-end or any other emu's. They should just work! Then i just have to set up MAME, which should be pretty easy.
By going all analog, I have to setup the startup and end batch files, or command lines for each emu, which seems like more work to me.
Ginsu Victim:
If you're just going to wire it as a standard stick, though, WHAT'S THE POINT?
Running it through the I-pac defeats the entire purpose of having a U360!
Is this a wind-up?
cadmium:
--- Quote from: GinsuVictim on August 29, 2008, 03:57:51 pm ---If you're just going to wire it as a standard stick, though, WHAT'S THE POINT?
Running it through the I-pac defeats the entire purpose of having a U360!
Is this a wind-up?
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It doesn't defeat the point for non MAME emulators that don't support analog controls or more specifically joypads (almost all of them). MAME would get the full analog signal coming over usb, but everything else that doesn't take an analog signal simple gets the digital signal from the I-Pac.
To me it's connecting 5 extra wires to avoid reconfiguring 10 different emulators. MAME is the only emulator that would benefit from the analog controls, and it would get the analog signal.
I don't think that would be defeating the purpose, only getting the most out of the stick for each situation.
In other words, it seems like more work to configure batch files or commands for 10 different emulators, than to hook up 5 wires (up, down, left, right, ground) - for those emulators that only take digital signals.
Ginsu Victim:
You're confused. The USB allows you to set up the U360 as analog, 2-way, 4-way, 8-way, whatever way you want.
It's only analog when you tell it to be, otherwise, it's like a switch-based stick.
Like I've already said, you're making this WAY TOO COMPLICATED!!!