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Yes you can double-up inputs using shift on an I-PAC

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_Iz-:
Just looked at the wiring diagram (I think) you refer to. Unless I'm mistaken it appears to not only lock out the shift feature for buttons wired this way but also completely disable them while the shift button is pressed...  Am I wrong?  This would be a bad thing IMHO...

RandyT:

--- Quote from: _Iz- on November 19, 2003, 01:25:52 pm ---Just looked at the wiring diagram (I think) you refer to. Unless I'm mistaken it appears to not only lock out the shift feature for buttons wired this way but also completely disable them while the shift button is pressed...  Am I wrong?  This would be a bad thing IMHO...

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Heh.  I swear we did this dance a while back.  :D

Yes, it would block out the other controls down the line, only affecting those that were pressed during the 1/4 second the button was actually down for, and this is better than shifting everything indiscriminately.  But you can combine any number of these methods to come up with a solution that suits you.

But as we hashed out in the past, nothing is "free".  If you tweak your car to go faster, you lose gas mileage, stability, and usable life.  It's all about what you want your setup to do.

We seem to be back at this "which is better, blocking or not blocking".  One scenario you can get around some things with certain limitations, and in the other scenario, the hardware makes all the decisions.  Since this has been done already, I'll refrain, other than to say that I don't agree with your opinion.   ;D


--- Quote ---And what makes you so sure I don't own one?    

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Other than my customer list (which I'll grant doesn't always reflect all owners, because there are a lot of them out there now), most of my customers will actually ask me about these types of things personally before making these types of statements in public forums.  But it was just a guess  ;)

RandyT

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More butchered words  :P

fogman:
Randy,
  Can you produce a house keeping only card?  Would it be hard/expensive to produce an emulator that took care of the housekeeping only, but have PS-2's in and out so that it could be used with any other emulator  (I have an I-Pac now, but don't like to shift).

   This way, you could have one emulator on the front of a cab taking care of coin in, reset, pause, etc. and the CP could have the in-game controls.  This would facillitate rotating and removable cps.

It just a thought, but I do think that if it could be made cheap enough, people would buy it.

RandyT:

--- Quote from: fogman on November 20, 2003, 11:08:42 am ---Randy,
  Can you produce a house keeping only card?  Would it be hard/expensive to produce an emulator that took care of the housekeeping only, but have PS-2's in and out so that it could be used with any other emulator  (I have an I-Pac now, but don't like to shift).

   This way, you could have one emulator on the front of a cab taking care of coin in, reset, pause, etc. and the CP could have the in-game controls.  This would facillitate rotating and removable cps.

It just a thought, but I do think that if it could be made cheap enough, people would buy it.

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I've been tinkering with something that would probably do exactly what you want plus have a couple of other features.  But I don't think it will be extremely cheap. I'll have think about that one.

RandyT

Tiger-Heli:

--- Quote from: fogman on November 20, 2003, 11:08:42 am ---Randy,
  Can you produce a house keeping only card?  Would it be hard/expensive to produce an emulator that took care of the housekeeping only, but have PS-2's in and out so that it could be used with any other emulator  (I have an I-Pac now, but don't like to shift).

   This way, you could have one emulator on the front of a cab taking care of coin in, reset, pause, etc. and the CP could have the in-game controls.  This would facillitate rotating and removable cps.

It just a thought, but I do think that if it could be made cheap enough, people would buy it.

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This could also be done cheaply with a keyboard hack, USB keyboard hack, or USB gamepad hack.

The usual limitations of not hacking a USB keyboard would not apply as you would not be worried about simultaneous keypresses for admin functions.

So I'm not sure how big the market would be for your suggestion.

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