I have long thought making one of the MAME arcade boxes would fun, and
recently stumbled on some second hand arcade controls, so I've decided
now's the time.

Seems like I'm really late to the party. Pimame.org, which I once
bookmarked, seems to be off the air and I found several other projects
that also look stalled.

The MAME side of things I feel confident I can handle, co-ercing Linux
to do things for me is easy. Even if starting from source.

No, my questions are how the controllers work. The up-to-date pi MAME
system, Recalbox, just says buy USB controllers or use a keyboard.

So, how did people do this before complete kits were on the market or
without just off-the-shelf controllers?

Personally I've been leaning towards getting a Teensy 2 (Arduino board)
and using that to wire the controllers like a custom USB keyboard, but
I'm open to other suggestions.

I don't have the Pi for this yet, I was leaning towards a 3, but if
there's a good reason for another one, I could still switch.

Elijah
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was using MAME long before the Pi existed

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