Guitar Super Mario Bros.
Saturday, August 9th, 2008This is awesome.. I thought that I could play the guitar, this rocks!!!
See more at Zack Kim’s You Tube Channel.
Hey, finally a post that isn’t just a rant… lol
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49-way analog joysticks with MAME
Friday, July 25th, 2008
There is no substitute for using a 4-way joystick on older 4-way games like Pacman or Donkey Kong. But here is a substitute that might help until you get a real 4-way joystick for MAME.
This works with my MAME + MAMEUI setup and it probably works with every modern MAME version and setup, but I can’t be bothered to check at the moment…
Sadly, this only works with analog (49-way) joysticks, I have an X-Arcade Tankstick and I have been thinking of replacing the joysticks with Ultimarc Mag-Stik or Mag-Stik Plus joysticks so I can switch between 4 and 8 way settings easier (at the moment I have to take the bottom off the controller to switch).
Download 49-way joystick configuration files (9.3 KB).
MAME ctrlr .cfg for Pelican Arcade Sticks
Sunday, July 20th, 2008
I made a MAME ctrlr file (more info about the MAME ctrlr configuration can be found at the BYOACWiki) for my friend’s Pelican X-Box arcade sticks (he has two of them). He uses X-Box to USB converters so he can use them with his computer. Even though I made it to use the X-Box Pelican arcade sticks, it may work with other X-Box via USB arcade controllers (for PC/MAME).
Ozma Wars Overlay
Sunday, July 13th, 2008
I got bored and made a MAME .lay file (overlay) for the arcade game Ozma Wars. I based the colors on screenshots of the game in the arcade flyer for ‘SNK Original Games’, which I found at The Arcade Flyer Archive.
Ozma Wars artwork (overlay) file (752 bytes).
title: Ozma Wars (set 1)
manufacturer: SNK
year: 1979
genre: Shooter
category: Shooter / Gallery
Another Test Post
Tuesday, July 1st, 2008
Since I just changed my blog to a new engine, I figured I should get used to the way it handles uploads, images, comments, etc…So here goes: a test post with very little content.
I figured this would be a good test picture, it is the score of our most recent McRugby match against RAGE (we won). They didn’t like the way we played the game and disconnected during the 2nd round, RAGE_Epi stayed in the server so we could report and confirm scores. Much respect to Epi for this.
The Black Scorpions don’t always make friends when playing MechWarrior, we play to win and often surprise other teams with our tactics.
DOSBox, Aces, and Linux
Sunday, July 15th, 2007I noticed (in my Acepage server logs) people searching for ‘Slowdown Red Baron 3D’ and ‘Red Baron DOSBox’. Never one to ignore a challenge, I added a link from that site to a slowdown utility for Windows called Throttle and wrote a tutorial on DOSBox and Red Baron (it’s in the ‘Patches, Utilities, and Texts’ section). Also, a tutorial on DOSBox and Aces of the Pacific (it’s in the ‘Utilities and Texts’ section).
So far only Linux DOSBox is explained, but I plan on adding a Windows version as soon as I can be bothered to boot to WinXP.
DOSBox and Linux
Saturday, June 23rd, 2007I got bored last night and installed DOSBox and QJoyPad for Linux. Using DOSBox I was able to get my favorite old DOS games running perfectly (Aces Over Europe, Aces of the Pacific, and Red Baron). I had to install pmidi and fluidsynth for Aces Over Europe to have sound and I used QJoyPad to map the throttle and joystick rotation to keyboard buttons (for Windows, Joy2Key should work to remap keys if needed, DOSBox has a mapper but my Saitek X52 has too many axes [that really is the plural of axis]).