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Light Buttons with LED Hardware/Software - COMING SOON!!!
Lilwolf:
Cool! Glad to see your keeping up with it!
Some ideas / comments...
1) If you are controlling / keeping track of the number of buttons... You might also want to keep track of the joysticks used also... Then maybe even 8way, 4way or 2way. Then I could see someone adding some lights under their joystick to light up based on the controls. Would require lexan or something top... but think how cool it would be for a 2player 4way game to show up with both controls up/down/left/right showing... but not the diagonals!
2) Have you considered hotswappable control panels? Will it work? If you want to test a setup with multiple control panels let me know. I have a few...
3) Make sure you can modify per game in some meaningful way. Why? MAME IS WRONG... OFTEN! It states how many players can play at once... but not how many controls there are... so you get a ton of 2 player games with only one joystick. This would be a great addition to the controls.dat (as mentioned above).
4) You might consider changing the code to have a wrapper that starts mame. So you call mame itself...and frontends call your program. This would remove any overhead no matter how little you think it is. But then again... if you have it working... this sounds like a bad idea... so scrap it...
BillyJack:
Welcome back! Now that I have my translucent microswitch buttons, i'll be very interested once again!
Suggestion / question:
Can you make this (does it already) do the same thing for the other emulators (NES, SNES, N64, Genesis, you name it)?
I suppose that could be done just by looking for the emu's .exe since those games had standardized controllers originally.
DinoRoger:
--- Quote from: BillyJack on February 03, 2004, 11:39:57 am ---Can you make this (does it already) do the same thing for the other emulators (NES, SNES, N64, Genesis, you name it)?
--- End quote ---
Yes the software will have support for other emulators also. There will be a lists folder. Any file with a *.lst extension will be read. I will compile as many emulators lists as I can. The lists can be read and edited with nopepad so you can basically control anything if you like or create your own lists.
dommer:
Would love to be a beta tester, and would be willing to pay to participate in/support the effort. I have a mame cab with 4 8 ways, 1 4 way, a slikstik spinner, happ trackball, and a bunch of associated buttons.
Generic Eric:
Glad to see you are back!
Can't test unfortuanetly, but I am DEFINITELY intersted in seeing your product developed.
Will you have a website with more info and your progress anytime soon?
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