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This is great information, @Sithel. Much appreciated!
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Just finished it last night. It's the cabinet from recroommasters. Using BigBox as the front end, thousands of MAME games and a few Atari 2600 games... As for the marquee, there's a guy on Ebay who will make custom ones. I sent him the design and the exact size I needed and he sent it out the next day. Sorry, my phone's camera blows.
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Yes, this is precisely where I am. I'm putting together a cabinet and my current 8-way joysticks make playing Donkey Kong impossible. Try going up a ladder and then immediately going left or right at the top. If you round the corner (of the joystick) as is comfortable and common to do, Mario just freezes at the top of the ladder. Miserable. The Servo Stik is a an absolute requirement. -Mike
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My apologies if that was poor form. As a complete noob here I didn't even think of it.
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Thanks, @neil9000 and @Sithel. I'm looking forward to digging into this. Like I said, I'm not afraid of some tedious manual configuration, but if @Jason Carr or someone knows a better way, I'm all ears. Maybe there's a magical database out there mapping all MAME games/ROMs with whether they're best played with a 4-way or 8-way joystick that could assist... -Mike
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Thanks again, @lordmonkus. I can't wait to try all this out. "Unfortunately" I'm just about to head out for a long vacation but I promise I'll report back when I get back to mess around with it. I haven't actually installed the ServoStik into my controller board yet, and I think I need to get out the dremel to make it fit properly, so that'll all take some time. But I wanted to make sure all this was doable before I start dremeling. -Mike
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Thanks, @lordmonkus! This is fantastic. Somehow I never realized one could right click a game and have have so many settings to fiddle with. That's why I belong in this "Noob" forum. So, the all-important question is: if I right click a game in Launchbox and make settings changes, will these settings also apply to BigBox? (I'm at work and unable to test this at the moment). Thanks a zillion! -Mike
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Yes, I saw those command-line parameters, but it's not yet clear to me where they go. You said: The "additional apps section for each game" ...where exactly? Within MAME? Within BigBox? I think I'm missing this crucial piece of the puzzle... Yes, I am OK with having to do some tedious setup, to make it work. But of course if @Jason Carr has a way to automate it, all the better! And I also wonder that if some feature is added to LaunchBox, it's also available in BigBox? I'm definitely using BigBox here. Thanks so much for your input! -Mike
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More searching in these forums has indicated that LEDblinky is now supported internally. Reading through this thread: ...indicates people have gotten it to work to blink LEDs for attract mode and such. What I still need to figure out is how to make it work on a PER GAME basis to switch my ServoStik to 4-way or 8-way, depending on the game...
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I think you/may be onto something here with this "LEDblinky" thing. Looking at http://ledblinky.net/LEDBlinky.htm it says: Whoa! And since you said BigBox supports LEDblinky, I just have to figure out how it would all work together and the magic of how to configure it....
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Heh, thanks Neil. Did you have to pick Neil9000 because Neil0001 though Neil8999 were already taken? :-) Just kidding. I hope someone has some easy solutions for me. I'm sick of Googling in circles on this one. -Mike
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All, Lifetime license holder here. I am considering a ServoStik (https://www.ultimarc.com/servostik.html) which has 4-way to 8-way powered restrictor switching. It can be switched from 4-way to 8-way and back via software (command-line or GUI). I spoke to the guy (Andy) at Ultimarc who said the restrictor can be changed automatically depending on the game using certain front ends. I asked about Launchbox/Bigbox, but he wasn't familiar. Has anyone gotten this to work, and if so, how? As this post's title indicates, I'm using Bigbox to run MAME games, and I'd like to have the joystick's restrictor plate to automatically change to 4-way when playing games like Donkey Kong and Pac Man, and change to 8-way when playing Street Fighter, etc. Any and all assistance would be appreciated. Thanks, -Mike
