Posted by FiZZLeRoM on 4, 2000 at 12:25 AM:
Ok first off, for anyone who is going through the hell that I am; this may be a way to say it how it feels for all of ous who have been dicke*. Anyways if you have any plan on making a arcade controller! FORGET IT.
Ive sat here and gone through keyboard hacks, Gameport connections and console video game controllers and found they all fall short of being anything but great.
Any access to real professional design just blows as the outcome isnt that great. And spending the time, the hell of construction and ordering the parts is not worth it; as well as how each princible design of going into the keyboard with the problems of GHOSTING, or the gameports FREAKING LIMITATIONS OF A FEW BUTTONS or any other interface like USB or Parellel all have RESTRICTIONS - RESTRICTIONS - RESTRICTIONS!!!!!
And when you will pay money, which some of ous who wont fuss have paid for a Hotrod SE or a Stick-It, which is not so reasonably priced, becasue if anyone has actually looked at those prices and DONT DENY it have coughed a little hard at its price! I mean come on anything over 100.00 bucks is kinda just ripping ous all off to relive a past.
I mean I love to enjoy classic gaming, but the price we pay for a decent or at least a fair chance at creating a great controller it always fall short, unless you really know your electorincs or have spent so much cash in your own errors like I have, before jsut going out and just buying one have I relived the hell of building a Mame controller to experience my past at one hell of a price.