I want to make a mame controller for a friend who is going to be in hospital & then on bed rest for some time early next year.
I planned on using a hacked generic PC joystick, then installing a zippy joystick and probably 3 player buttons (plus small coin & start buttons) in a box and have it connect to his laptop via USB and be done with it.
But then I thought of improving it a bit...
So now my plan is to have a small usb hub inside the box, it will have an 4gb mem stick in it and the hacked controller usb will also plug into it.
Then I'm hoping that when I connect the single usb plug to the laptop, it will automatically boot up mala off of the stick and the joystick will be connected and setup as the default controller.
The main perk of doing it this way is that he will be able to plug it into his comp at home, take it to a mates house, etc etc.
I don't have a hub so I can't test it, but does it sound like it would work?