MasterFygar
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Has this ever been attempted before? I'm throwing around the idea of making a dedicated Puzzle League cab somehow but I'm not sure how it work with wiring the controls, the TV, etc.
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I am not sure if that game requires the analog stick but its fairly easy to hack the pad for all of the digital controls. It you can't do that then pay someone here to hack them for you.
Wouldn't you just mount a TV inside of a cab?
What I was going to do was assign each 'button' on the D-pad to a microswitch on the arcade stick. Would that, in theory, work?The analog joysticks on the N64 use optical sensors for tracking. Although I've heard some of the 3rd party controllers use pots.
They swapped to the pot style sticks for the cube.
What I was going to do was assign each 'button' on the D-pad to a microswitch on the arcade stick. Would that, in theory, work?
not for most games. The D-pad is very rarely used on games. Most rely entirely on the joystick for movement. Often the D-pad is only used for a menu, swapping items or something secondary like that.
At one time I was going to make a Jaguar cabinet. A guy programmed a nearly arcade perfect version of GORF for it that included all the options for adding coin switches and player start buttons. So basically you would just make a custom cable to go from the console to the joystick and buttons. The Jag gorf project got shut down because of copyright crap. Jamie (Jay) Fenton was working with the programmer on it as well.
As for making a N64 cab, it would all depend on making a joystick that would work with it.
N64 pad uses hall effect sensors, that use a variable voltage signal fed to an encoder. You can't wire up anything but a joy that uses the same type of signals to the pads encoder, and I'm not sure of any that exist in the arcade world.
You can't really tap into the hall effect sensors to drive them directly either...
The only way to do this involves conversion of some kind, using a PIC and such, or a pre-made converter box but to convert to what? Another analog system you'd have to mess with?
I'd just run an N64 emulator on a PC.
But if 3rd parites used pots, couldn't he just hack a 3rd party controller and avoid all that?
No, this game is controlled by D pad. It's going to be a dedicated cab too. The emulator idea sounds more sane though if the buttons wont run.