A-pac? AAE Need Help Please.

[H4CK3R]

I am working on a Star Wars Cab, Got it all working through Mame, But once I try running it with AAE it doesn't want to load.



I have narrowed it down to the A-Pac?  I pac controller.  It works fine without the I-pac controller pluged into the USB, I have even tried running it with a USB to PS2 adapter.  No love.

I have my Dedicated Mamecab, with Ipacs pluged into it, and it works fine on that PC.



Please help me with this, Kinda stumped here...

H4CK3R

[Havok]

The A-Pac is a joystick(gamepad) as far as the pc is concerned. Unfortunately, AAE doesn't support joysticks - he never got around to adding support for them. You would need an interface that looks like a mouse to the computer for AAE to work with it. A U-hid *might* work in this case...


http://u-hid.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=15&Itemid=19


(If that works, you can send me your unnecessary A-Pac)

 

[H4CK3R]

Thanks... Think Im going to go Cry now...I tried to get hold of Tim?  AAE.  Nothing back so far.  I do pray he's still working on this.. Also wanted to ask him about the sound for Starwars.  Anytime you hear someone talk it seems to be barried in the back ground.

Anyone got AAE Running with the orginal Starwars controller?

This is what it looks like with just mame.





This is what it looks like with AAE running.  and that was with the lights on.



Can I trick the Computer into thinking the A-pac is a keyboard?  PPJoy?  Any thoughts? Idea's?

H4CK3R

Unless there is another option for running Starwars ( I am saving up to restore the cab...  If I can find all the parts.)

[Havok]

You could try a Joy to Key program, however I can see the movement to be clunky; you need an analog interface to smoothly move the yoke in Star Wars, and a keyboard input just isn't going to cut it. Just try and play Star Wars with the keyboard in Mame to see what I'm talking about. Really the best option is to get joystick support in AAE, or see if you can interface the yoke with a mouse input.

I'd check the mouse input option, but AAE doesn't like my Windows 7 machine. (I'm at work - shhhh!)

[rrcade]

What are you using for the yoke? I did the sidewinder hack on mine and it works great, I'm using this frontend:
http://urbaninteractive.wordpress.com/ The only problem with this frontend is if you hit escape twice your back to your computer desktop screen, I haven't figured out how to deal with this yet. I would Love to use AAE on this project also but I'm not sure if I would be able to keep the frontend above with AAE. Also I'm running SW, ESB, and ROTJ all on on machine and AAE only supports SW. I'd love to AAE source released and work continued.
What is the AAE process that makes it look so damn good? Anyone interested in taking the project over?

[AndyWarne]

This is strange, how can an emulator which runs analog games work unless it supports analog controllers?

[taylormadelv]

I think I saw an awesome SW yoke to USB adaptor on Ram Controls. Perfect for mame, absolute genius!
http://www.ram-controls.com/order-sw.html
No idea exactly how this works, just says "USB". Although it might be time to buy an ipac or keywiz. You'll have the extra connections for start buttons and coin, if you choose.
And I had issues running AAE with Asteriods Deluxe. The sounds were just plain wrong and I couldn't stand it and had no idea how to fix it. I think another AAE issue is that it doesn't support vertical games, so Tempest and Quantum are SOL on AAE. BTW what graphics card are you using?

[Havok]

I think I saw an awesome SW yoke to USB adaptor on Ram Controls. Perfect for mame, absolute genius!
http://www.ram-controls.com/order-sw.html
No idea exactly how this works, just says "USB". Although it might be time to buy an ipac or keywiz. You'll have the extra connections for start buttons and coin, if you choose.
And I had issues running AAE with Asteriods Deluxe. The sounds were just plain wrong and I couldn't stand it and had no idea how to fix it. I think another AAE issue is that it doesn't support vertical games, so Tempest and Quantum are SOL on AAE. BTW what graphics card are you using?

Ram Controls USB interface isn't available yet; hopefully by the end of the month...