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3 sided cocktail disabling buttons
06attaker:
Is there a way to disable the buttons on the vertical sides of the cocktail when playing horizontal games? Also the other way around, if playing vertical games can you disable the horizontal player buttons. Altogether I would have 4 joysticks with six buttons each making that 24 buttons. For example, wouldn't the same fire button for player one on the horizontal game be the same button on the vertical side. I don't want someone fooling around on the other side of the cabinet pushing buttons while I'm playing.
Thanks for any info!!!!
SavannahLion:
Let's see......
The absolute easiest way to do it is to use a SPDT switch. The center post would go to ground on the controller. One post would tie to the common ground of the horizontal side buttons and joysticks while the other side would tie to the common ground of the vertical controls.
When you play horizontal games, flip the switch one way. When you play vertical games, flip it the other way.
The way I might do it.
I like my things to be automated. One way I might look into.
Leverage something like the LED-Wiz. A hybrid controller such as the LED-Wiz+GP would work beautifully. Using one of the LED outputs create a simple IC switching circuit that acts like a SPDT switch. Wire it the same as above. Then go in and create the appropriate script/profile/whatever to light that specific LED output when playing horizontals and to turn it off when playing verticals. That would control the switching IC to switch the controls automatically and cleanly. You can even get a little fancy with the other LED ports (or even that same one) and light up the appropriate panel that's currently active.
leapinlew:
I think the easiest way to do it is to buy a ipac4 and run the vertical side to it's own inputs and map those inputs inside of Mame. It costs a bit more money, but definitely would work.
I suppose building a circuit board and and design some software might work, but seems much more involved, just like Savannah likes it! ;)
ArtsNFartsNCrafts:
Or you could do what I do, and just deck your friends when they screw up your game of galaga.... :dizzy:
SavannahLion:
--- Quote from: leapinlew on January 26, 2008, 12:34:02 pm ---I suppose building a circuit board and and design some software might work, but seems much more involved, just like Savannah likes it!
--- End quote ---
It would probably be easier than even I made it out to be. I realized today at work that a paired NPN & PNP transistor and a front end GUI that supports something like the LED-Wiz would probably make it extremely easy. I'm not sure which NPN/PNP pair I would use though. It's just a signal line so I imagine just about any would work fine.
In any case, I'm reasonably certain a simple SPDT switch would be even simpler than buying a new ipac4 and reconfiguring MAME.
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