Posted by Jelloslug on 4, 2000 at 7:23 PM:
In Reply to: Disgruntled-Controller Design posted by FiZZLeRoM on 4, 2000 at 12:25 AM:
If your interested I can build you a custom controller for much less that a hot rod. E-mail me at retrocontrols@mindspring.com I can send you pics of some stuff I have made before also.
: 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.