Arrival!
Monday, 29th December 2003 at 4:33PM (2901 days ago)
this morning a package arrived with my joysticks and buttons and ipac controller! big thanks to ultimarc for the quick shipping.
here's one of the jstick joysticks with the red top (taken with my new camera!)
the arcade buttons, including start buttons, coin insert buttons and general player buttons. there's 2 black buttons, 12 red buttons and 2 start buttons all up.
then there's the ipac, which is the smartest thing i've ever seen. you wire the joysticks and buttons into this little baby and then plug it into your pc/mac via usb and it will convert all the buttons and controls to the default configuration for mame! how awesome is that??? it's got an inbuilt controller which will stop ghosting and other problems you get when you hack a keyboard to do the same thing.
i am going to start building a prototype control panel and hook it into my g5 to start testing out the controllers and getting the wiring down pat.