I know I haven't posted in a while, to be fair, I haven't been playing that much and haven't found anything really noteworthy to post here, but today I found something really useful.
Some guys have a whole suite of controls and macros on their arcades to control lots of different functions. I don't. Some guys have drawers where they keep their mouse and keyboard easily acessible or have a small keyboard to control their arcade. My mouse and keyboard are in the back of the arcade and are a pain to get at. But what I do have (now that I've found it) is an amazing phone app.
Enter unified remote, probably the most useful app ever. I had heard of this app, but never gave it a shot, and what made me try it today was the volume of the games. MAME has a serious problem with rom volume normalization, some are super quiet and others are super loud, and I was tired of always having to reach for the knob on my speakers, but with this app I can do it from my phone. Hell, I can even control the mouse keyboard and basically anything I want! Talk about a time saver.
The app is free though it has some limitations, but you can always shell out for the pro version and you have to install a program on your computer, but once you've done that you don't need to configure anything else, just open the app on your phone and do whatever it is you want, just make sure that you set it so that it starts when windows starts, otherwise you have to open the program every time you want to use the app.
The app is available for android, iOS and windows phone, and the pc program is available for *takes a deep breath* Windows, Mac, Linux, iOS, Android, Raspberry Pi and Arduino Yún,
