> So, in a big plea-styley, is there any chance that MAME devs could offer an
> accessibility option that gives a way back in for these devices that use "scan codes"
> or "virtual keycodes" for modern computers? It would be an amazing add, and would
> re-open up games that a number of people used to play, but no longer can due to
> disability. It will also mean that if current MAME users were to become disabled in
> future life, they'll still be very likely to keep playing with a little support.
We'd certainly accept patches that added explicit support for various accessibility devices. (Not having any, we can't add the support ourselves). And I wish people with genuine use cases like yours would have spoken up sooner. 99% of people asking about this stuff want it for novelty or illegal purposes, which tends to harden MAMEdev's response to such questions.
That said, the MUCH lower resistance method is to simply build SDLMAME for Windows, which AFAIK is fully vulnerable to all the classic key-injection hacks. We include everything you need to do that in the base source and the base compile tools; you simply 'make OSD=sdl' instead of plain 'make' when building.
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