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stevejt:
Druins rotary interface works for mechanical rotary joysticks.  For games like time soldiers, ikari warriors, etc.

Why do you want to hack a sidewinder?  I am guessing you think it would be easiest to have swappable panels all use the joystick port?

Steve

stevejt:
By the way...  Did you read the FAQs on the board?  I think if you read them, you might not think you have to hack everything.

Kremmit:
SteveJT:  I think he knows about the Druin's, and all the other interfaces, but wants to do it the hard way, either for fun or to save $$.

Searcher7: 

You can hack a digital gamepad for your 2/4/8 way joysticks & buttons if you don't want to do a keyboard hack.  I'd find one with the most buttons on it you can.

Search for Dual Strike hack, that seems to be the hack method of choice to interface analog controls.  (analog joysticks, 270 degree steering wheels, potentiometer based pedals and paddles, etc.)

Search for Mouse hack to see how to interface a spinner, 360 degree steering wheel, trackball, etc by hacking a mouse.
 
And here are those links again, I dunno how they got messed up ???
http://forum.arcadecontrols.com/index.php/topic,20018.0.html
http://forum.arcadecontrols.com/index.php/topic,25276.0.html

They're links to hacks people have done to get rotary functions added to 8-way sticks.  Both use a Mouse hack, but go about it in different ways.  They don't feel the same as the original mechanical rotary sticks, but it's the best you can do if you don't want to use the Druin's board.

Hope I'm finally helping!

Searcher7:
Now I think you understand.

Analog: "Dual Strike hack"

Digital: "digital gamepad"(Any names?).

XY: Mouse Hack

(And Rotary and 49-way games are out).

***What about gamepads that allow analog and digital?(ie: Thrustmaster Phazer Pad).

Also, I still know little about MAME, and was wondering what the limits were on receiving inputs from multiple ports.

I guess that covers it.

Thanks a lot.

Darren

Kremmit:
No special names on digital gamepads, take yer pick.

If you want to go for an analog + digital pad, it should be do-able, but I've yet to see anybody post an example (which doesn't mean nobody's done it!).  Give it a try!  Then post your results, with pics, to help others.   :angel:

And rotary games are not all the way out, if you try something like what you see in those links I re-posted.  I read where somebody hacked the scroll wheel (z-axis) of their mouse to a joystick hack like those.  If you're gonna hack the x & y axes anyway...

As for limits to the MAME software, I'm really out of my depth there.  I know MAME's happy to read ps/2 inputs, serial inputs, gameport inputs, and USB inputs, but don't have a clue as to how many of each you can have.  I'd post in the Software Forum for more on that, as that's where the bitheads hang out.

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