Another question, which I couldn't find poking around the documentation: It has 2 joystick input. Could I connect 2 mice (for Hired guns and Settlers) ?
You can connect two Amiga mice but neither of them will work with the current firmware. Only one PS/2 mouse is supported.
also, and this may be a dumb question.. can you use a CD32 pad with it in place of a joystick ? A few of my friends prefer pads to sticks and this thing will be mainly for multiplayer
The hardware designer of the Minimig board omitted one signal at the joystick ports which is necessary for additional buttons of a CD32 pad to work. So these pads can only work as standard 2-button joysticks. You can also use a Sega Genesis/Megadrive pad but to have working two buttons you need to swap two wires inside the pad.
I know the minimig has a normal VGA output. Anything particular to watch out for as far as monitors or will it work on pretty much any ?
To be able to run the Minimig in PAL mode the monitor must be able to sync down to 50 Hz (only some monitors are capable of this).