Comments on: “It just works”: MAME OS X & Totally Cheap GamePad

By: spidey

spidey — Thu, 07 Aug 2008 23:21:40 +0000

VERY VERY excited to play on old fav called Wardner. Got an adaptor to use PS1 controller. Plugged it in and it worked. Problem was, it was using an unusual button arrangement so I went into the menu that alters the controls for the game. I went to Button 1 and hit enter, it awaited the new button input. I hit the square button on the controller… nothing… I hit all the buttons… nothing. I hit the spacebar. It added the spacebar to the list of buttons that it would now consider to be button 1. I somehow figured out that holding function and escape would restore the button to default. However, now the game no longer recognizes my PS1 controller AT ALL.
Please help
Thank You

By: Koral

Koral — Tue, 29 Apr 2008 15:42:43 +0000

Looks like a good pad, specialy if it has digital controlles then you can hack it up for MAME usage, but like Dave i can also recommend the I-Pac and use microswitch joysticks. One can program different controlsets for all the emulator/games.
Working great here!

By: bbum’s weblog-o-mat » Blog Archive » Make Your Own Arcade Controls

Sat, 10 Nov 2007 04:31:13 +0000

[...] Now — more than ten years after it was built — MAME is all the rage and Dave Dribin has produced an awesome port of MAME to Mac OS X. As well, USB technology has evolved such that “HID Compliant” devices are fairly common and cheap. That plus some awesome work in MAME OS X means that plugging in any HID compliant game controller “just works”. [...]

By: Dave Dribin

Dave Dribin — Thu, 18 Oct 2007 16:50:20 +0000

*blush*… thanks. BTW, if you’re serious about using real sticks, I’d suggest looking at a keyboard encoder, like the I-PAC. It’s a tad more expensive, but it’s less hacking and ultimately more flexible.

-Dave