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Thanks for keeping GroovyMAME up-to-date!

Hi cloud79,

Regarding the interlaced mode, if yours is a multi-sync monitor, set the correct preset in mame.ini, like arcade_15_31 instead of arcade_15. That will unlock 480p if that's what you want.

Found some more Pics

 I was doing some research for a post... and I came across something interesting, that I never knew existed, for the Megadrive

https://segaretro.org/XE-1_AP

 This was an Analog Controller... released for the Japanese Megadrive..  and supposedly works with several MD games:

After Burner II
Super Monaco GP II
Fastest 1
Galaxy Force II
M.U.S.H.A.
Space Harrier

Mega-CD
After Burner III
Night Striker
StarBlade

32X
After Burner Complete
Space Harrier


 Pretty Wild stuff.  Do any Megadrive Emulators support Analog controls on these games?  Its been a long time since Ive
messed with anything outside of Mame.

Heya PBJ,

 I was doing some research for a post... and I came across something interesting, that I never knew existed, for the Megadrive

https://segaretro.org/XE-1_AP

 This was an Analog Controller... released for the Megadrive..  and supposedly works with several MD games:

After Burner II
Super Monaco GP II
Fastest 1
Galaxy Force II
M.U.S.H.A.
Space Harrier

Mega-CD
After Burner III
Night Striker
StarBlade

32X
After Burner Complete
Space Harrier


 Pretty Wild stuff.  I wonder if any Emulators support Analog controls on these games.  Its been a long time since Ive
messed with anything outside of Mame.

For my speakers, I want to keep the speakers in the cab. I know that's limiting but it's what I want to do.

 Nothing wrong with that.  You can always transplant drivers from any speakers, into any arcade cabinet.

 The sound might be altered because of the larger cabinet size... but thats how most Arcade Machines would have sounded
anyway.


 That said... you could also make an internal speaker box,  inside of your cabinet.
Or leave a smaller sized speaker in its own box... with the speakers simply mounted behind the speaker grills.

 That again, is something you can do live tests with.   Test both some music,  as well as some actual Arcade games, to
see the differences in how things sound.

Dont Do it !!

I once built a control panel with a Curved button layout like that.  It was AWFUL.

It looks like it would fit your fingers Ergonomically.  However... the problem is.. you dont lay you
hand Flat, when using buttons.

 When you type on your Keyboard.. look at your fingers.  They are vertically bent downwards at the
first knuckle.  Thats why every key is in a straight line.. so you know exactly where they are, even
if your eyes were closed.

 When you try to use a Curved button layout on a Control Panel... you end up hitting the edges
of the buttons, instead of the center of each button.  Also.. you might even accidentally Miss the
button altogether

 You would not save more than any inch of space, by curving buttons.  And, you would seriously
regret doing it.  Just use the Straight Line rows.  Trust me on this.

 Many people have made the same Mistake... but they are too proud to rebuild their control panels,
and have suffered for it, as a result.

thanks, just added it to v17.2 update  on github

Thanks a lot 

Hir Argon,
Flycast 2.6 is released, maybe, if you will have some spare time, you could update DS. Many thanks!

thanks, just added it to v17.2 update  on github

Ahhhh. I have several GUN4IR lightguns that have the same PIDs because its firmware only supports up to 4 unique available values. I haven't upgraded to the latest Demulshooter, but if I do and happen to use the two guns with the same PID then that is another scenario where this come up . Just another call out if you need more reasons to revert it 

I use a tool that sets the DS config for me prior to launching a game, so I suppose it wouldn't be an issue for me personally if DS still supports the fully qualified paths when it's manually set.

Edit: I don't have a github account to respond in that thread, but maybe a fix could be to use devices if their full ID is found, and then for any device which isn't found, you'd try searching using the short path? Saving would still use the full path, and then portability will work using the fallback search logic? No need to continue that conversation here, but is just another thought. That may only work when running games though versus configuring in the UI.

Be assured that I did not need any more reason to revert it.....mostly the over way around : I was sent a lot of debug data before accepting the change, hoping this would not be kind of safe, but it wasn't
So I just changed it back to the old way in the v17.2 update

Starting to run some advanced looking functions, mixing both short and long names according to the computer is the best way to mess with a lot of things.
I'd rather keep a clear, unique way which has the advantage of giving clear information when things are not working.
Stability and compatibility if way more important to me than easy portability or other special-setup specific changes.

If you still have those parts and the tube then build one!
St's book is great and you'll find all the help you need otherwise right here.
Just requires some space, time, and tools really.

There are enough generic cabinets floating around your area that if you spend some time looking and waiting that you could find and convert a non-rare original cabinet without angering the arcade gods too.