Posted by c0nsumer on 8, 2000 at 11:40 PM:
In Reply to: I ssugest forgetting about Keyboard hack. (more) posted by JustinT on 8, 2000 at 10:42 PM:
: keyboard hacks are often hard, messy, ugly, and very time consuming.
: Take my advice, and get an I-PAC if it suits your needs. You'll find more info about this encoder, at the "controls" link to the left.
Please don't think I'm saying the I-PAC sucks, because it doesn't, but if you want to use other emulators as well (Nesticle, etc) you might want somthing that is programmable, unlike the I-PAC. Like a KE-72, or another programmable interface... One problem that you'll run into is that if certain keys that MAME uses aren't supported under other emus (I think ALT isn't supported under Nesticle nor Bleem), you won't be able to use those buttons for the other emus. I ran into this problem when setting up my controls, so I remapped every button on my control panel and every key in MAME to a typical alpha key of some sort. This way there are no problems at all...
-Steve