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Thenasty:
I'm gonna try to explain what I did with Advmame (Dunno if regular Vanilla MAME does it, but I think it will).

Here is what I did.
I made some Configuration files for Controls (INI in MAME)

8way1P1B   This is 1 Player 8 way 1 button game
8way1P2B   This is 1 Player 8 way 2 button game

8way2P1B    This is 2 Plyer 8 way 1 Button Game

4way0B        This is 4way no buttons  (pacman etc..)
4way1B        This is 4way Joystick located in the middle of the panel (there is no 2 player here, its for alternating 2 player games)

SPIN1B        This is Spinner Games
TRACK1B    This is Trackball Games

I think you get the picture by this time

I have (2) 8way Joys (Left/Right of the panel)
I have  (1) 4way Joy in the Middle of the panel.
I have Spinner also in Center
Trackball in Center


When I launch a Game say PACMAN  ( I use Advmame/Advmenu) using BATCH FILES

ADVMAME PACMAN 4way0b

This will only enable the 4way joytick and disable buttons (except for START/COIN of course)

Advmame kof 8way2P6B           This is KOF 2 player 8way 6 buttons



Hope at least you got my idea. After i got all the CONTROL config done, it was easy adding games to my Advmenu FE (BATCH FILES)

Here is a preview of my Menu Screen
Click on it to see it in action.


dirkomatic:

--- Quote from: Thenasty on July 08, 2009, 11:51:25 am ---I'm gonna try to explain what I did with Advmame (Dunno if regular Vanilla MAME does it, but I think it will).

--- End quote ---

This is great, I may try something along these lines, but I'll have to see if it works...

I use SDLMame on Ubuntu, not AdvanceMame.

I really like the idea of having a hard physical switch, though.  That way if something isn't working quite right, the answer is easy to explain to the kids.  It's the reason I'm going with the omni-stik prodigy for 8-way/4-way conversion.  It's easy to see what mode you're in...
bkenobi:
I would investigate into config files myself.  If you want to build hardware to do what software can already do, have at it... :dunno
dirkomatic:

--- Quote from: bkenobi on July 08, 2009, 01:13:23 pm ---I would investigate into config files myself.  If you want to build hardware to do what software can already do, have at it... :dunno

--- End quote ---

Ha...  Good point.  It's not that I necessarily want hardware to do the job that software does; I want visual clues as to what is going on.  As always, if I had a picture to go with my plan, that would help....
mvsfan:
say if you can do that with a cfg file thats even better. ive got a small addition to that idea though although i cant help you any further with the software part.

if you could wire a toggle switch to an input on your ipac or other keyboard encoder and then get the cfg file to pick up when that switch is on or off, you still get your switch and also you dont have to fuss with replacing relays or wiring them.

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