winteriscoming
Champion
In trying to track down a Type 3 I/O for playing Mario Kart Arcade in my driving cabinet, I got to thinking about the emulation route, and am seriously considering it because I think I have everything I need on hand and won't have to invest any money in a Triforce motherboard so I can essentially play 1 game. 
I haven't messed around much with Triforce emulation, but I know it exists, and if I understand correctly, has the potential to increase the resolution and image quality of the game beyond what the stock hardware is capable of.
One thing I do have at the moment is a hacked Wii that boots into MKAGP2 when powered on, and I hacked together a controller so that my cabinet's wiring can control the Wii. With a video signal converter, I've gotten this playable in my cabinet, but I hate the video quality.
So my idea is getting this emulated on the PC, and translate my cabinet controls to PC controls. I've got a custom I/O project in the works where this is one of the project goals.
However, my understanding is that the emulation route would be lacking any kind of force feedback. The source code for the Triforce branch of the Dolphin emulator is available, though. So I wonder how feasible it would be to manage the force feedback information through a serial port. Triforce, like the Chihiro with WMMT, uses RS-232 to communicate with the force feedback board.
@MetalliC, I know you messed around in the Triforce Dolphin source code when we were working on the card reader protocol. Do you have any idea how feasible something like this would be? And a follow-up question: With your work on NAOMI emulation, would something similar be possible there, too? Like manage a signal, maybe through an RS-232 port, that could interface with the arcade cabinet's force feedback as long as you had an adapter in place that was capable of interfacing with the MIDI FFB board?
I haven't messed around much with Triforce emulation, but I know it exists, and if I understand correctly, has the potential to increase the resolution and image quality of the game beyond what the stock hardware is capable of.
One thing I do have at the moment is a hacked Wii that boots into MKAGP2 when powered on, and I hacked together a controller so that my cabinet's wiring can control the Wii. With a video signal converter, I've gotten this playable in my cabinet, but I hate the video quality.
So my idea is getting this emulated on the PC, and translate my cabinet controls to PC controls. I've got a custom I/O project in the works where this is one of the project goals.
However, my understanding is that the emulation route would be lacking any kind of force feedback. The source code for the Triforce branch of the Dolphin emulator is available, though. So I wonder how feasible it would be to manage the force feedback information through a serial port. Triforce, like the Chihiro with WMMT, uses RS-232 to communicate with the force feedback board.
@MetalliC, I know you messed around in the Triforce Dolphin source code when we were working on the card reader protocol. Do you have any idea how feasible something like this would be? And a follow-up question: With your work on NAOMI emulation, would something similar be possible there, too? Like manage a signal, maybe through an RS-232 port, that could interface with the arcade cabinet's force feedback as long as you had an adapter in place that was capable of interfacing with the MIDI FFB board?
