HyperAttract - Program that exits an emulator after specified idle time.

[kagaden]

Woot, glad to hear that could work I'll get around to toying with it and see if I can come up with something, no worries


Edit: Oh snap, I didn't realize you updated it. I'll check it out and get back to you. Thanks again

[TheShanMan]

Ha, those are interesting ideas, I think a better idea may simply be to use the IPAC for the buttons and the U360s for the joystick, obviously if your using the sticks your using the buttons to, so the program would still work.

Not all games use buttons during game play. Wouldn't be fun to play a long game of pacman or frogger and suddenly you get kicked out!

[Kman-Sweden]

FYI,

Maximus Arcade has this feature built in as well.

~ DeLuSioNaL

Where?

[kagaden]

So I've been using that new one for about a week now and it works like a charm with joy2key. I'm actually really liking this solution because with joy2key it's sending keystrokes and gamepad inputs at the same time. Therefore, for an emu I can use either keystrokes or gamepad inputs and for SFIV I can use native gamepad inputs and the extra keystrokes don't affect anything. It's rock solid so far

Thanks Brian! 

[brian_hoffman]

So I've been using that new one for about a week now and it works like a charm with joy2key. I'm actually really liking this solution because with joy2key it's sending keystrokes and gamepad inputs at the same time. Therefore, for an emu I can use either keystrokes or gamepad inputs and for SFIV I can use native gamepad inputs and the extra keystrokes don't affect anything. It's rock solid so far

Thanks Brian!  

Your welcome, and to think I just spent the last 1 and a half hours programming it to not need joytokey, Using getkeystate and other fun stuff.
Oh well, if there is a want for the latest beta Ill upload it, if not then case closed.

Thanks for the feedback
Brian Hoffman

[kagaden]

I think the pause feature that theshanman was interested in could probably be implemented in the way I mentioned before, with a loop running with a counter that acted like a timer that was reset when a joypad input was pressed. I think in that case you'd just need a button that would toggle the loop from stopping/starting. I'm not really the programmer type though so I can't say for sure. I'd still like to take a stab at scripting one when I have some time but someone else is welcome to attempt it if they feel it's a good idea.

I really like the way Brian worked in the configuration file for the different exe's it would terminate. Makes it way user friendly, I'd hope to make use of that idea as well when I get around to looking at this. The holidays are always so busy

[kagaden]

So I've been using that new one for about a week now and it works like a charm with joy2key. I'm actually really liking this solution because with joy2key it's sending keystrokes and gamepad inputs at the same time. Therefore, for an emu I can use either keystrokes or gamepad inputs and for SFIV I can use native gamepad inputs and the extra keystrokes don't affect anything. It's rock solid so far

Thanks Brian!  

Your welcome, and to think I just spent the last 1 and a half hours programming it to not need joytokey, Using getkeystate and other fun stuff.
Oh well, if there is a want for the latest beta Ill upload it, if not then case closed.

Thanks for the feedback
Brian Hoffman

Oh hell yes I'd love to beta it for you Brian. I have the feeling from the popularity of the original HyperAttract that it's an app that quite a few people would be interested in