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DS on a cabinet
mh12:
hello,
i thought i should contribute a little something more around here. and maybe annoy some of the purists while i'm at it ;D
has anyone else tried DS games on their cabinet? i don't own a DS, but I've been playing so much "Retro Game Challenge" i went out and bought two copies of the game (1 to gift). NO$GBA with NO$Zoomer runs this stuff great. you can map any key to do whatever emulator function you like, so most of the time I'm playing with the game screen on all 27" of my monitor (and use another button to switch back to dual screen). it's just like NES games. Now I'm also checking out Tetris DS (it's mainly non-touch, but I can play the Touch mode with an Autohotkey script I modified to move the mouse with the second joystick), Contra 4, and both Space Invaders Extreme games, which I can't imagine I'd be very good at with a D-pad. It's great stuff.
Turnarcades:
The DS is great and one of the few platforms left in the modern era that does try to keep things simple (the complexity of 6th-gen + consoles are what put me off adding them to a retro cabinet), however even those excellent re-imaginings like Tetris and Mario Kart require too much touch interaction at some point during play and creating scripts and the like can be a chore, so I'd prefer to keep it out for now. Maybe if the emulation and game support improves on the emulators as well as improved 'cab-friendly' features, I think it woul be a good addition.
shateredsoul:
I think this is a great idea. I wish there was an option to have the DS screens take up the entire space vertically (one screen on top of each other) and with black borders on the side. Not sure why they haven't thought of this for any of the emulators, but to me this would be the best solution. If you have a vertical monitor setup.. I imagine you don't need side borders.
I've heard a lot about autohotkey (i.e. using it to skip straight to the game for street fighter IV), do you know of a thread that explains what it is? Can you share the script you've configured for your pc?
Some other games I think would work well on an arcade cab
-New Super Mario Bros
-Contra 4
-Sonic Games
Can't think of more at the moment but I could swear there's plenty more
I have noticed some people add a 2nd touch screen on their arcade setup, has anyone seen one of these setup to play nintendo DS (using the two screens)?
I just had an awesome Idea, what if the touch screen was integrated into the panel? The trackball can be above it, but this would make it really easy to use for Nintendo DS games, displaying your controller configurations when launching games, and configuring windows. I couldn't find a CP where they already did exactly what I'm imaginging, but I did find this http://arcadeheroes.com/2009/08/01/update-on-dark-presence-now-with-touch-screens-on-the-panel/
Gorotsuki:
I want to emulate the DS
on my arcade but my PC
is too slow, especially for the
DeSmuMe emulator.
Going to see if the No$Zoomer
really does full screen now.
The last time I tried
something similar it didn't work out.
shateredsoul:
thanks for sharing that! I looked up no$zoomer.. directed it to no$gba and it quit on me.. (i'm using 64 bit windows 7), i launched no zoomer again and launched a game and it worked great! Full screen and all, tested on bubble bobble and new super mario bros.
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