#21159 - Aceldamor - Tue May 25, 2004 2:36 am
Hello,
This question has been tossed around before by another member, but I was curious to know how difficult the following situation is.
I am an avid MAME fanatic and was using a standard 8x24 LCD screen connected via a com port to tell me what buttons had what function based on the game selected...another member of the BYOAC message forums proved it could be done with a Gameboy Advance LCD screen...See this thread for details...well the gentleman in question came to the boards to announce that he had accomplished this feat and even showed pics of it in action, and animated screenies of what he is displaying. When asked how he accomplished this his response was:
1. You edit a MAME picture then add your button assignments.
2. Create a GBA ROM of the picture
3. Connect your GBA to your computer
4. Link that ROM picture to the MAME ROM you are launching with a little programming.
It's a vanilla answer, so he was asked for more specific details (via PM, forum, and e-mail) such as: what did you use to connect the GBA to the PC? What did you use to code the "GBA ROM"? unfortunatly he never did respond to any attempt to contact him...which is a bummer, there were a few folks out there looking to do the same...
Well, I've decided that I might give this project a go and essentially what I was wanting to know is:
How hard would it be to replicate this project? I really want to give this a go, but don't know how complicated it would be. Any informational help or pointers would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks,
Aceldamor
This question has been tossed around before by another member, but I was curious to know how difficult the following situation is.
I am an avid MAME fanatic and was using a standard 8x24 LCD screen connected via a com port to tell me what buttons had what function based on the game selected...another member of the BYOAC message forums proved it could be done with a Gameboy Advance LCD screen...See this thread for details...well the gentleman in question came to the boards to announce that he had accomplished this feat and even showed pics of it in action, and animated screenies of what he is displaying. When asked how he accomplished this his response was:
1. You edit a MAME picture then add your button assignments.
2. Create a GBA ROM of the picture
3. Connect your GBA to your computer
4. Link that ROM picture to the MAME ROM you are launching with a little programming.
It's a vanilla answer, so he was asked for more specific details (via PM, forum, and e-mail) such as: what did you use to connect the GBA to the PC? What did you use to code the "GBA ROM"? unfortunatly he never did respond to any attempt to contact him...which is a bummer, there were a few folks out there looking to do the same...
Well, I've decided that I might give this project a go and essentially what I was wanting to know is:
How hard would it be to replicate this project? I really want to give this a go, but don't know how complicated it would be. Any informational help or pointers would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks,
Aceldamor