Posted by Sharone on February 14, 2002 at 09:12:29:
i've been reading up a lot on assembling a control panel with an encoder card from hagstrom. Before i start to order the parts, ive a few questions.
1) Some games use ctrl and alt for triggers, others that have up to 6 buttons, use characters on the keyboard. How can i set mame to use the same keystrokes for triggers on all games? Without this, i wont really know which pin on the encoder to match with a keystroke when each game is changing.
2) When playing a new game, one always must type in 'ok' to access the game, how do i get around that because i may not have the o and k chars on the control?
3) When installing a trackball and spinner, do they both run as mice but the spinner has the y-axis removed?
4) In conjunction with 3, do they just get plugged into the the mouse port and are they completely independant of the encoder?
Thanks in advance for any help someone can offer.