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| Beretta:
dude calm down, if you taken the time to check the board you'd find guides on controls. keyboard hacks suck, in the early days before USB was real popular it was your best bet, not anymore. there are ready made encoders.. those are great i know your tight on time but this is a good way to go. otherwise get you a couple of game pads and hack those.. so you have'nt found a single pad that can do it all.. then hack 2, hack 3 or 4, or how ever many inputs you need.. i think windows 2000,xp,etc can handle 16 game pads iirc. keyboard hacks are a pita, i've done 2 of them.. just for haha's on broken keyboards and neither actually gets used for anything. also if you need a lot of inputs keyboards are'nt good sources anyway.. namely because of ghosting or blocking.. i've heard of a few people getting as many as 27 simultaneous inputs going, with a lot of work in the process and very selective inputs.. most keyboards are'nt reprogrammable either so that limits you options. finally keyboards are'nt universally the same so each hack will be a bit different brand for brand and model for model. game pad hacks are easy depending on what pad you got, and are all roughly the same. for your time frame the quickest and easiest solution is to hack a couple of game pads if one is'nt enough then hack as many as you need. here's a thread with some pictures of some i hacked recently. http://forum.arcadecontrols.com/index.php?topic=95549.0 here's another http://forum.arcadecontrols.com/index.php?topic=84548.0 |
| DJ_Izumi:
My Logitech Cordless Rumblepad 2 has 12 digital buttons, two analog sticks and a D-pad. And that's just if you use one of that style for the CP, how many buttons do you need? |
| garnerb350:
endrien...You can do a search for Keyboard Hacks...I did one ( but I only needed it for the use of 3 buttons)...Dont do it UNLESS you are good at soldering...The guys are right...its easier to just get an encoder...but hey you got to do what you got to do... The hard part is the soldering and figuring out the matrix.... Good luck.... |
| CrazyKongFan:
Bah, it's not THAT hard. I did it, and it only took a couple hours. The hardest part was wiring the encoder to a terminal strip (I soldered cat-5 cable to the encoder, and wired it to the terminal strip). The other tedious part was wiring the control panel, but I had to do that regardless of whether I used a keyboard encoder or not (I just didn't have a common ground). The other thing that came in handy was a voltmeter. This was so I could map out the keypress on the matrix (setting the voltmeter to the ohms setting). Of course, I'm not using a ton of buttons either, 3 per player, plus 2 joysticks. I don't play fighting games, so I didn't need the 6 buttons needed for Street Fighter type games. |
| endrien:
What encoder can I use(Someone suggested keywiz or something)? I have 1 gamepad but its a little spaztik at the moment, probably because its missing the analog stick board(says 4 and 6 button are always pressed), I might have enough buttons for a single player. |
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