buttons 4/5/6 through a kick adapter should be fine - as those are separate from JAMMA, and yes - just put 1/2/3 back to normal when doing that (one slide switch) and all should be good.
Matt
Small 2.40 update - was chatting with @electric_monk and he gave me another command to try and reset the IDE interface, instead of having to wait so long for a lull - works PERFECTLY.
Changing games is quick again, on every game. The unit waits a few seconds for a gap in the emulator's disc...
Last update for a bit as I will be traveling for the next 2 weeks for work.
Still pending:
SD2PSX firmware collab to clear up some errors I worked around
picoIDE hardware arrival
V2.39 is the current version - it is stubbed out now so that when the PicoIDE arrives, I can get that wired up...
Welllllll - master/slave is back (a little) - it turns out that on the 246, some games REALLY do need to run in slave mode. On the 256 - they all run in master mode (at least with tattibogle's ODE).
So I did a big change there, as well as building a new firmware for the sd2psx that gets rid of...
I am working right now on adding some commands to the sd2psx that will give more information like what firmware version, getting a directory listing (see above challenge where I couldn't tell the layout on the sd2psx card), etc. as well as try and run down the issue where I have to issue a reset...
after a lot of testing - I think I have everything working now - including the few games that weren't. For some reason - when selecting a card and a channel (per the original link for the sd2psx layout) - it fails on a small number of games. But if every dongle is channel 1 on its own card, it...