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Adding front end button support to existing cabinet with no permanent mods?

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JODY:
For some cabinets, such as Star Wars, the controls are limited at the moment.  Star Wars has an analog yoke with 4 buttons.  Mame32 does not support analog controls to make a selection.  At least I am not aware of how to make it work.  Then within the game there is not an exit button without interfering with the buttons used for game play.

Thus, I think I'll need to add some buttons to this cabinet and possibly switch to a different front end.

Because all the controls are in place (although I may switch the yoke interface) for gameplay, I may not buy a new controller interface board such as an iPac for button handling.  E.g. a hacked keyboard should work fine for non-game use to control escape, coin, etc. buttons.

severdhed:
perhaps a usb gamepad hack might be a better choice. you can pick them up pretty cheap, and don't suffer from the ghosting/matrix problems that keyboard hacks have.  i have not used mame32 with any front ends, only command line mame...not sure how it deals with analog controls. I have used MaLa on my cabinet and have used a trackball and spinner to select games from the front end, so i know that works, havent tried analog joysticks, but shouldnt be a problem

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