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jhsmith321:
Hello! I am trying to design my cab to be able to play as many games (consoles, emulators, pc games, etc) as I can on a single control panel layout. I am thinking on adding 4 joysticks, 2 light guns, a spinner, a trackball and maybe a removable steering wheel. My questions are:
Has anyone tried to play any of the games of the Quake or Unreal series with their Mame cab or do this kind of pc games do not support joysticks, trackballs??.??
Is it difficult to control the aim, jump, shoot, crawl, turn left, etc, at the same time, as you would control them or have all the functions close together with a keyboard??? I supposed that you should hold the joystick with one hand (walk, turn?) and the trackball with the other (aiming mostly), but that does not allows me to control buttons the fire buttons and so on, without taking my hands off the trackball?..
How did you accomplish a setting that works fine for this???
I personally love all the first person shooter games. If anyone has a picture of their CP that they are using to play this type of pc games and would like to post it, as well for any responses, suggestions, comments, etc. will be GREATLY APPRECIATED!!!!!. Thanks in advance.

Edited the title for less eye strain --Tom61

BillyJack:
wow...
how about a topfire super joystick?

rampy:
How about some line breaks, a more concise subject that isn't in all caps?

=P

Ok... with that out of my system... it depends.

Most people knee jerk to say modern FPS pc games don't play well on an arcade cabinet because even with a trackball you can't negotiate all the buttons with the same elegance as you could keyboard and mouse.

Some PC games do play well (check the sticky in the software forum), particularly the older ones on a MAME cabinet.  Like wolf3d =P

I'm not sure how you are wiring up your control panel... but if you are using a keyboard encoder and teh game in question support remapping, an arcade joystick push looks just like an "up arrow" on a keyboard (just an example mapping)... and a trackball looks just like a mouse.  *shrug*

You might be able to get good action with a tball and top fire joy as suggested... but you'd probably be at  a disadvantage to a keyboard+mouse player IMHO.

and finally can there ever be enough games for you (rhetorically speaking)?  Between MAME, zinc, nes/snes/psx/tg16/c64/atari's/gen/gb/ emulators, old pc games that work well on cabinets...  interfacing modern consoles with your cabinet... that's probably 10,000 plus games..

Use your regular PC for the modern FPS shooter, eh?

Rampy

jhsmith321:
and finally can there ever be enough games for you (rhetorically speaking)?  Between MAME, zinc, nes/snes/psx/tg16/c64/atari's/gen/gb/ emulators, old pc games that work well on cabinets...  interfacing modern consoles with your cabinet... that's probably 10,000 plus games..



I know that I am talking of several thousand games, I just want to keep open all my options =), I do play a couple of emulators far more than others, but it is nice to have a single CP that allows to play most of the games without the need to swaps different CP

rampy:
You realize you answered a rhetoricall question, right?

Just teasing... Anyways if you AREN'T a keybaord+mouse FPS disciple... maybe what was outlined would work for you.  

Another idea that's discussed is to have a USB port available to plug in gamepads, or playstation pads with USB adapters, etc to either add additional players on the fly or do specialty controls.

A Microsoft Dual-strike works passably well for FPS's... but I didn't give it a chance before going back to mouse+keyboard...

*shrug*  good luck!

rampy

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