Before I started blogging on Big Head Mode, I did some reviews of arcade related stuff on RetroBlast!. I just had to update a review I did earlier this year to coincide with an upcoming contest, so I just thought I would link it. This was a review I wrote of ThrustVector’s Afterburner, an arcade controls encoder. If you are not a home arcade enthusiast you will probably find it very boring, but here are the basics. In order to interface your computer into an arcade cabinet, or build a genuine arcade controller for your PC, you must map all the joystick and button presses to input into the PC. You can do this by hacking up a keyboard, or by just buying a dedicated keyboard/joystick encoder. The latter option gives you an easier, cleaner setup with more features. The Afterburner is a very nice fully featured encoder, but with a pretty steep price tag. The review is here.


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