Posted by CoreyGH on 21, 2001 at 9:29 AM:
In Reply to: Re: Another crack at it.. posted by Tony C on 21, 2001 at 12:48 AM:
Actually, you need to account for a Coin button for each player so the total is 48. And a cheeper solution to 2 I-PACs ($94) is 4 M$ Sidewinder Gamepads which you can get for $20 ($5 a pice plus shipping) from www.computergeeks.com They are very easy to hack (already have LABLED holes on the circut board) just check the examples page and do a search on the msg board. They will give you 56 inputs total (including the direction pads) and are supported by most emulators (even in DOS) so you can add some configurization buttons (Exit Mame, Mame config menu, rom reset, etc.)
: I guess for all of this to work I'd need to buy two of those I-PAC units since by my count there are (as drawn) 44 inputs (controllers and buttons.) Plus an Opti-Pac for the spinner/trackball. Andy (forget his last name) will love that!