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[Hornet]

Hi I am thinking of building a Williams 1981 ms pac-man cabinet for some of the old school games from that period. I think gameex is undoubtedly the FE I will use with Mame, but as we all know the Control Panel is small on this cabinet. My question is can I use a multi-function joystick to control the on screen pointer to navigate Gameex or would I need a trackball?

If I can't use the multi-function joystick, then to save space I was thinking of placing a touch pad, (see photo below) to the side of the cabinet as I don't need a trackball for the games I play. Any suggestions or help with this would be appreciated.

Darron

[mental]

Hi I am thinking of building a Williams 1981 ms pac-man cabinet for some of the old school games from that period. I think gameex is undoubtedly the FE I will use with Mame, but as we all know the Control Panel is small on this cabinet. My question is can I use a multi-function joystick to control the on screen pointer to navigate Gameex or would I need a trackball?

If I can't use the multi-function joystick, then to save space I was thinking of placing a touch pad, (see photo below) to the side of the cabinet as I don't need a trackball for the games I play. Any suggestions or help with this would be appreciated.

Darron

I`ve got a converted Video Wizard cabinet which is two player, and that uses an arcade joystick to fully control GameEx. I have Joysticks hooked up via a keyboard encoder so the movements are translated as keyboard presses and GameEx responds fine to it.

Not sure if that helps you but although I used a keyboard to install GameEx (a wireless one) I now have it running with no need for keyboard or mouse intervention and can control it with the player one joystick and two of the player one buttons.

[Hornet]

That's great, thanks for your reply mental.

I am testing out gameex at the moment on my laptop with just the keyboard and pad, and I have to say that Tom Speirs and all involved have put together a quite remarkable piece of software. As soon as I'm ready to install gameex on the PC in my proposed cab I will be making the well worth it donation. Thanks guy's.

[Stu1983]

Just so you know, by using AutoHotKey you can easily set up GameEx to be controlled by both player 1 and player 2' joysticks and buttons at the same time, which is pretty handy when you've mates around, you don't have to keep swapping sides to choose games

I've a post about it and the AHK script if you need it here

http://www.gameex.info/forums/index.php?sh...amp;#entry20266

Stu

[mental]

Just so you know, by using AutoHotKey you can easily set up GameEx to be controlled by both player 1 and player 2' joysticks and buttons at the same time, which is pretty handy when you've mates around, you don't have to keep swapping sides to choose games

I've a post about it and the AHK script if you need it here

http://www.gameex.info/forums/index.php?sh...amp;#entry20266

Stu

Thanks for that, will be useful for me as well

I`ve tried literally every front end I could get to work and only three were good for me (GameEx, Maximus Arcade and MaLa) but GameEx definitely is the best.

[Hornet]

HPimpDaddyStu Thanks for your link and help that's great.