Not sure if you can remap the buttons without hacking the harness.
The trigger button I think is wired via the gunsense boards, and the pump action is wired directly to the I/O board.
In terms of the shoot of screen for reload I think that is possibly done in the software, not sure exactly how...
Should work with most of the gun games, I think there are 1 or 2 exceptions where games dont use the Sega setup, possibly Ninja Assault I seem to remember.
I know that a HOTD3 cab uses the same gunboard and sensors as a Confidential Mission cab, the gun sense board does all the work and outputs...
Tighter than I though, best option would be to just go without a case and mount the separate components on a wooden board or boards like the jamma area, and cut up an old or cheap case to get a structure for the motherboard and graphics card to support them.
You could make a main piece of wood...
No particular model, just sSomething low cost that you wouldnt mind cutting bits out of.
Probably what you will have to do is make it fit in the space by cutting it down to size and just using it as a frame
Why do you think Pi's cant give 31KHz emulation, they can be setup to ouput 640x480 at 60Hz refresh quite easily, or are you referring to the emulation of the 31KHz era of gaming (Naomi, TTX etc).
You could always build a Micro-ATX system and it might fit in the back corner of the cabinet out...
Or possibly set the SD card up to look for a named folder on a USB drive to load the game from then instead of having change the game on the sd card you could just pull the USB stick and move which ever game you want into that named folder and keep the others handy on the USB stick in another...
For the Service menu, you will need a service button and a test button, IIRC the test button puts you into test and acts as the enter key and the service button moves between the options, I believe you can only use those two buttons in the test menu and not the normal controls.
Never used...
Doesnt the Lindbergh just have a pair of RS232 Serial ports on it for the connection (1 for Card Reader and 1 for FFB), so guessing you would just need a null modem cable or something to your device running the script.
LOL - Should have read the thing in full, yes you just need a 9pin either...
Isn't there a way on Mega to create a shared folder/archive so you can pick and choose what files to download, I'm sure I've seen something like that before.
Silly question, but you are using a Chihiro Type 3 aren't you and not the Type 1, it just popped into my head when you said you were using a crazy taxi sitdown that it might have been a High Roller with the Type 1 Chihiro and that won't run SP, only the standard Outrun2.
Just a thought but since it looks like its not using standard hex to ascii character maps to send the names over to be store/written on the card, any chance you could map out the hex values to letters and numbers using the name entry as suggested and using those codes to search your data to see...