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Author Topic: PC Games on Arcade Cabinet? Joystick Emulator?  (Read 2205 times)

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MikeMelga

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PC Games on Arcade Cabinet? Joystick Emulator?
« on: December 21, 2016, 08:42:46 am »
Hi everyone.

I have a Jamma arcade cabinet with J-Pac and ArcadeVGA.
I am also using Maximus Arcade.

I have no problem with controls for MAME and other emulators (Spectrum, ...)

My problem is with PC Games. Althought many of them I can simply remap the keys using autohotkey... there are many that only support gamepads/joysticks for one or both players.
I tried an application called VJoy but didn't seem to work.

Is there any way I can map the arcade buttons to a joystick/gamepad fooling the game so it thinks I have them?

Thanks.

 

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Re: PC Games on Arcade Cabinet? Joystick Emulator?
« Reply #1 on: December 21, 2016, 09:08:48 am »
See the xbox360 xinput keyboard hack thread stickied at the top of this forum.

A lot of PC games have analog controls or controls that are just too complicated for an arcade cab.
It's a few years old, but.... http://forum.arcadecontrols.com/index.php/topic,134283.msg1384600.html#msg1384600

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Re: PC Games on Arcade Cabinet? Joystick Emulator?
« Reply #2 on: December 28, 2016, 06:30:10 am »
BadMouth,

Thanks for the reply and for pointing me to that xbox360 keyboard hack.
Unfortunately none of the links to download it work  :(

Do you have somewhere I can get it?