what is the best way to make your own mame?
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I am ending my own arcade machine, but I have a little problem of how to fix the command control. I was thinking to avoid buying the small controller (photo) and make one for myself and figure out how to connect / solder a keyboard or joystick under control, where the lever and buttons are.
>>1021821
>what is the best way to ask a retarded question?
>>1021821
For best results use an FPGA. If you have no idea what an FPGA is, don't use an FPGA.
So computers today have fuckloads of processing power, even a goddamn raspberry pi ought to be able to emulate damn near any old arcade machine.
For your controller, the first thing I think of would be to use an arduino to make a USB human input device to convert button presses into something the computer can use.
>>1021928
Raspberry Pi has GPIO pins that you can access via library, so you wouldn't even need to introduce a separate microcontroller into things.