Build Your Own Arcade Controls Forum
Main => Main Forum => Topic started by: IG-88 on July 02, 2006, 07:34:48 pm
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Here is what I am wanting to do. I am in the planning stages for a small bartop for my 3 yr old that plays classic arcade games ie: pacman, frogger, donkey kong ect. (thru Mame32) some basic pc games, Dora the explorer, spongebob, ect....and maybe another emu or 2.
I want it to a use a joystick, a couple buttons and a small trackball. The interface has to be very basic and yet stable. I thought about Mamewah but I'm thinking that it may be too complicated for the little ones. What would be ideal is a picture of each game and emu that they could click on or even mapping a special button for each.
The hardware I think I can handle. What I am having difficulties with is what kind of software would allow this to happen. The Mame games are easily setup with an ipac but I am wondering how to map the keyboard keys to the buttons, joystick & mouse for the pc games and other emus?
Anyone have any brilliant ideas?
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I love Mala!
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Probably to complicated for my purposes. Also I don't speaky German.
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You can get Dora, PacMan, Frogger, and Spongbob in those Jakk's Handheld games. Have you looked at Markrvp's bartop he did for his kid? It uses 4 of those handhelds instead of a PC and MAME. Cheaper than a PC, and harder for a kid to mess up, too.
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I may go that route yet, it's just that I have lots of old PC's laying around and I wanted to try those first. I thought about connecting it to the internet later on also....I'll check out Markrvp's set-up if I can find it.