Posted by Kithera on 29, 2001 at 2:33 PM:
In Reply to: Hmmmm... posted by Mojo2000 on 25, 2001 at 9:03 AM:
: : I am building a control panel for two players. The control panel has the following buttons:
: : 2 x 4,8 super joystick (Happ)
: : 1 x 3" Trackball
: : 1 x spinner (Oscar model 2)
: : 14 x black pushbottons (7 per player)
: : 2 x player start buttons
: : 2 x side flippers (pinball)
: : 4 x mouse buttons
: : 2 x misc buttons (start, esc, etc.)
: : I have already ordered one I-PAC and an OPTI-PAC+ for the trackball and spinner (and two mouse buttons?)
I think you will do awfully nicely with the exception of those extra mouse buttonds, the pinball flippers will work quite nicely in the 8th button inputs foreach player. You should use the shift keys to remove any need for any extras. Those just clutter up your panel anyway.
About those mouse buttons, remember mame doesn't really support those buttons as input (maybe one of the hacks will) and even if they did, you could still use your regular input keys in the game. So you should really only need a single mouse button, ok, two if you are using windows. Definatly no need for four. Enjoy