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Title: hacked keyboard problems
Post by: thewhizard on July 20, 2003, 08:02:26 pm

I have a simple plastic box with 1 joystick and 3 buttons - I hacked a keyboard to wire it together - "keyhack" shows the keys as functional right left up down alt control space

mame at best recognizes the fire button only

ps/2 and I have a usb adaptor for it -

What am I missing?

Title: Re:hacked keyboard problems
Post by: BobA on July 21, 2003, 08:23:53 am

I am not familiar with keyhack but when you check the keys is it the Left Ctl and Left Alt that you have wired into for your keyboard hack?

BobA

Title: Re:hacked keyboard problems
Post by: tmasman on July 21, 2003, 10:16:18 am

Make sure none of your connections are crossed and that none of your soldered points are touching 2 contacts on the PCB.

Also, do the key presses work in other applications? (open a document in Notepad & try moving the cursor around with the joystick. etc...)

If all else fails, use different keys for the buttons/diections & remap them in MAME.

Keep us posted with your results...
Good luck!

Title: Re:hacked keyboard problems
Post by: thewhizard on July 21, 2003, 12:30:53 pm

I found the control.cfg file for mame - edited it and got it to work - always figure it out after the fact

Title: Re:hacked keyboard problems
Post by: Apollo on July 23, 2003, 10:01:11 pm

"hacked keyboard problems"

Sorry but doesn't anyone see the humour in a thread title like that? LMFAO

Title: Re:hacked keyboard problems
Post by: grafixmonkey on July 25, 2003, 12:15:48 pm

yeah really, as far as I can tell "hacked keyboard" is logically equivalent to "problems".

Title: Re:hacked keyboard problems
Post by: thewhizard on July 25, 2003, 01:22:27 pm

looks stable - only running 1 joystick and 3 buttons

just a garbage test box joystick