Posted by Elvis_P on 21, 2000 at 7:29 AM:
In Reply to: 2 players & 6 buttons posted by kinopio on 21, 2000 at 6:29 AM:
: firstly, i have heard that if i want to have two joysticks connected to a PC, the maximum number of buttons allocated for each joystick is 2. so does that mean i have to forget about the joystick port if i want each player to have 4 buttons?
Basically yes. However there are gamepads that can be chained together and still use many bottons per player(for instance the sidewinder pads and the trustmaster rage pads)
: can i just get another joystick port so i can have more buttons? (personally i don't want to hack a keyboard... seems like a lot of work) or is that out of the question?
I would advise you to buy an I-PAC interface, this is quite easy to set up. For less buttons per player a keyboard hack would be better(well cheaper anyway) but with 6 buttons per player i'd go for an I-PAC.
: thanx for the tip