Lordmonkus Posted March 15, 2017 Posted March 15, 2017 lol, feel free to stick around with any input you might have and hopefully some others can pop in with more help if they have some insight to this sort of stuff. This is all stuff I don't have any use for in my personal setup so everything I am saying is theoretical. I have not touched the Additional Apps section since I first started using SSF for Saturn and mounting CDs a while back but that was short lived and replaced. Edit: Looks like @Sithel has a possible solution as well. This is probably one of those cases that could have a couple of ways of achieving the desired end result. I keep my setup extremely simple and a lot of these extra little features don't apply to me. 1 Quote
neil9000 Posted March 15, 2017 Posted March 15, 2017 OK then @FingerCramp, more knowledgeable than I have joined the convo, I will leave you with them, hope its figured out for you, and you grow to love the program like we all do. And also enjoy the community we have here. Have fun.. Quote
Sithel Posted March 15, 2017 Posted March 15, 2017 Here's a video, not mine that a guy explains it some and talks about creating a bat file.And he also uses LaunchBox, so maybe he'll see this or ask him on youtube. I tried this method but it screws up my led blinky controls I have set, so the ahk to exe file works best for me. 1 Quote
neil9000 Posted March 15, 2017 Posted March 15, 2017 Of course when I say that I am of course always here for questions. Quote
FingerCramp Posted March 15, 2017 Author Posted March 15, 2017 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 1 Quote
Lordmonkus Posted March 15, 2017 Posted March 15, 2017 Almost anything is doable with enough fuckery 1 Quote
neil9000 Posted March 15, 2017 Posted March 15, 2017 @FingerCramp Have fun on your holiday/vacation. Please do report back when you have time to mess about with it all, it may come in very handy for others coming here also, with similar questions to yourself. It would be great to say to people just look at this thread. 1 Quote
neil9000 Posted March 15, 2017 Posted March 15, 2017 1 minute ago, lordmonkus said: Almost anything is doable with enough fuckery Yep, depends how patient you are with foreplay though!!! Quote
FingerCramp Posted March 15, 2017 Author Posted March 15, 2017 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 Quote
neil9000 Posted March 15, 2017 Posted March 15, 2017 lol. I purposely didn't tag him, he has enough to deal with, but fair enough. Quote
FingerCramp Posted March 15, 2017 Author Posted March 15, 2017 My apologies if that was poor form. As a complete noob here I didn't even think of it. Quote
neil9000 Posted March 15, 2017 Posted March 15, 2017 2 minutes ago, FingerCramp said: My apologies if that was poor form. As a complete noob here I didn't even think of it. Lol no probs, I mean he is a busy man, but always up for suggestions, as I said earlier. Quote
Jason Carr Posted March 16, 2017 Posted March 16, 2017 No worries guys. Unfortunately this probably isn't common enough currently to come up with a dedicated solution for it, but it should certainly be possible using either Additional Apps or AutoHotkey. Quote
Lordmonkus Posted March 16, 2017 Posted March 16, 2017 I just thought that maybe because there was an SDK there might be something that could be done to add direct support like LED Blinky, sometime in the future though. Quote
neil9000 Posted March 16, 2017 Posted March 16, 2017 Well apparently is in the led blinky code so.... Quote
Jason Carr Posted March 16, 2017 Posted March 16, 2017 Just now, lordmonkus said: I just thought that maybe because there was an SDK there might be something that could be done to add direct support like LED Blinky, sometime in the future though. Yeah, certainly. I have to prioritize popular requested features (like the stuff from the last poll) over things like that, but yes, hopefully we'll get to a point eventually where it makes sense to start implementing more of those kinds of things. Quote
Jason Carr Posted March 16, 2017 Posted March 16, 2017 1 minute ago, neil9000 said: Well apparently is in the led blinky code so.... Yeah, if LEDBlinky works for it, then by all means... Quote
Lordmonkus Posted March 16, 2017 Posted March 16, 2017 Yeah I don't see those servo sticks being a common thing for users to warrant much time to programming support them. Hopefully the Additional Apps or AHK script can be used to do it for now. Quote
neil9000 Posted March 16, 2017 Posted March 16, 2017 1 minute ago, lordmonkus said: Yeah I don't see those servo sticks being a common thing for users to warrant much time to programming support them. Hopefully the Additional Apps or AHK script can be used to do it for now. It may already be incorporated into mame? and therefore not need a lot of tinkering with. Quote
DOS76 Posted March 16, 2017 Posted March 16, 2017 While many people may not be using something like this to be honest though if I was to rebuild or build a new arcade these (or something with similar function) would be a must. (playing a Pac-Man with a 8 way stick just blows goats. Quote
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