I am running MAMEmce on this machine, Windows XP Pro. It works great! It does not in any way need MCE for it to work. It is just a standard program, like any other, that mimics the look and controld of MCE.
NOW the GOOD part! I was doing some googleing and found some information about MAME. I just grabbed an old USB gamepad from the garage I havent used in a long time. When you are in a MAME game, and hit the TAB key, it brings up a screen to select your input controls!. You can select either the controls for JUST that game, or for all the games. Just select the button that you want to change, and then press that button on the controller to lock it in. You can also do this for the mouse as well. They recommend when are setting up a mouse to control sa movement, that you select the dirrection in the menu, and then move the mouse in a slow steady single dirrection to program it. Within a couple minutes I had it set up so I could press buttons on the controller to "insert Coins" and all of the game functions to whatever buttons you want to use! Way Kewl! And it gets better from there
The MAMEmce is set up to accept commands from the game controller. With that, you are able to navigate all the MAME menu's, select games and launch them, all with out the use of a keyboard or MCE remote control.
So, for all those non-MCE owners, you can still load up MAMEmce and use your controller to control the menus and play games on your TV with a standard video output. I wish I would have known this a long time ago!
On another note, Tom Caldwell wrote an .asp MAME interface to work with HS. I have not used it, but it seems like it will do just about the same thing as MAMEmce does. You can check it out on the HS msg board HERE.
NOW the GOOD part! I was doing some googleing and found some information about MAME. I just grabbed an old USB gamepad from the garage I havent used in a long time. When you are in a MAME game, and hit the TAB key, it brings up a screen to select your input controls!. You can select either the controls for JUST that game, or for all the games. Just select the button that you want to change, and then press that button on the controller to lock it in. You can also do this for the mouse as well. They recommend when are setting up a mouse to control sa movement, that you select the dirrection in the menu, and then move the mouse in a slow steady single dirrection to program it. Within a couple minutes I had it set up so I could press buttons on the controller to "insert Coins" and all of the game functions to whatever buttons you want to use! Way Kewl! And it gets better from there
The MAMEmce is set up to accept commands from the game controller. With that, you are able to navigate all the MAME menu's, select games and launch them, all with out the use of a keyboard or MCE remote control.So, for all those non-MCE owners, you can still load up MAMEmce and use your controller to control the menus and play games on your TV with a standard video output. I wish I would have known this a long time ago!
On another note, Tom Caldwell wrote an .asp MAME interface to work with HS. I have not used it, but it seems like it will do just about the same thing as MAMEmce does. You can check it out on the HS msg board HERE.
