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A Mame machine in an antique buffet - USB probs solved (I think!)
wilno45:
Looking good, this thing looks like it belongs on a certain submarine ..... http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0046672/
Cheers (great gothic theme going on)
drventure:
I can't remember if I thought of it, or if someone suggested it, but for a while, I was REALLY trying to figure a way to make a monitor cover that opened like a big brass and copper iris.
Good stuff!
Ryglore:
Ha, I do love the lamps, nice touch! I still say you need brass shaft and silver balltopped joys though. >:D
drventure:
yeah, see back a ways in this thread when we were discussing a bunch of possibilities there.
I actually found a plating and machining guy local, that might be able to do something, but that'll have to way a bit.
drventure:
Well, christmas has delayed things a bit, finally got to roll out the new element of my Cab. My daughter is in wonder of those Dance Dance Revolution games every time we go out somewhere that has them, so I picked up a couple of inexpensive foam pads (2 came in the box for 10$), plus a EMS USB Playstation 2 to USB adapter (if your going this way, USE THAT ADAPTER. Don't even bother with anything else<sigh> I did unfortunately....)
Anyway. Christmas, she opened everything up. was a little dismayed at the one box that contained just the adapter ;D . "Um, dad, I think Santa got the wrong name on this gift...." We got a good laugh out of that.
But she looked like the Home Alone kid when she opened the big box and saw they were dance pads.
Hooked em and played DDRA in Mame. After tweaking the frame skip, it was playable, but there appeared to be a delay in the inputs. Probably 50ms or less, but definitely noticable. I was kinda bummed.
But i'd been hanging out on the StepMania forums to get info on USB adapters for dance pads, so I downloaded stepMania, along with some tracks, a zip of a bunch of characters, etc.
WOW! This program is fantastic! Very well put together. No glitches at all that I've seen so far and the response using both pads simultaneously is spot on.
Plus it's easy to configure Mala to fire it up, and she already knows how to navigate in Mala, so double win.
There's likely better DDR games out there, but for free, StepMania is pretty dang good.
And I'm actually getting a decent workout over Christmas, too!
I suspect a build of some hard pads is in my near future ;)
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