Driving Cabinet Project

[chitlah]

Hello All.  I have a project that I need help with it involves a driving cabinet and three games.  Daytona, Outrun2, and Mario Kart dx usa version.  I need these games to trigger an output to a ticket dispenser.  In dreams i see mamehooker grabbing such event and outputting to ticket dispenser to put out tickets.  I am willing to pay someone for setting this up for me a reasonable amount for their time.   I was reading about mamehooker and Output Blaster but am unclear on where to begin or how to setup.  Any help or input is much appreciated and whoever comes up with a solution for me I will venmo some money to.  I hope that this isnt against any policies and I thank you for your time and for reading this.

[buttersoft]

Interesting! I'm not after tickets, but triggering from different game events would be handy. MameHooker only finds outputs, IIRC, which means that for random events you'll need a way to make them visible to it. Or use another method of course. User jorgenjl2 put some posts up about reading the RAM to get values from MAME in this thread - https://forum.arcadecontrols.com/index.php/topic,167200.0/all.html

I was also talking to MasterRaver on the TP discord about his cheat mods - reading values from the RAM using Cheatengine or a similar program and then using those to create an output or feed another program. I'm not good at this, but it would be lovely to have a framework like MAMEhooker for it - a program that would ask what address i want to monitor, and then ask which program i want to send a trigger action or value to. I'm not even sure how feasible that is, as a general tool, but i suspect turning RAM values into FFB, or a serial output for an Arduino, or pushing values to Simhub, is as complicated as it looks from outside.

If you do get something up, it would be awesome if you could open-source or share it