Build Your Own Arcade Controls Forum
Main => Buy/Sell/Trade - non-retail => Topic started by: OSCAR on April 09, 2003, 10:56:48 pm
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http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=3218393320&category=13718
Hard to tell exactly what it is from the description, but it sounds like a homemade keyboard encoder. Perhaps a cheap way to go for a small project, but it doesn't go into much detail about the functionality.
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This is the same guy that was selling a mame module of some sort that looked really weird in another thread.
http://www.arcadecontrols.org/yabbse/index.php?board=6;action=display;threadid=5138 (http://www.arcadecontrols.org/yabbse/index.php?board=6;action=display;threadid=5138)
Looks like alot of homebrew hobby type construction.
BobA
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I emailed the guy last week asking for some details about the unit (keystrokes and number of inputs). I have not heard anything yet.
interesting
ny
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It only has 12 connection points on the strip, - 1 for ground and you have 11 unique inputs, unless, goodness forbid he actually used a maxtrixing chip!! That would of course allow for 6x6 = 36 inputs max.
I could put together a better looking hack from a Gravis Gamepad (though admitedly not for $10 unless I didn't include the barrier strip and wires to pads) . And that would give 14 unique inputs.
Of course as the previous poster pointed out. This is the same person selling that mangled laptop or something-or-other MAME emulator somehow avoiding eBay radar for removal for a long time now, listing it as an "arcade board replacement unit" or something or other.
Seems like another scammer out to make a quick buck off the work of others and to pull the wool over the uninformed eyes.
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There's a green wire that kinda goes no where that may be a ground giving it a full 12 inputs.... hard to tell. Someone bid on it so hopefully we'll get some informative feedback once he gets it. I'll definitely be Emailing the winner(s) for info.