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harddrivin:
If no one else has figured it out I have a way to make the shifter work for the cockpit versions of hard drivin / race drivin in mame. Works perfectly with my logitech g27 h/6speed shifter. This will work on any shifter that holds the button position BUT could be made to work on a game pad that hast he 4 buttons on top like a ps2/ps3 controller as long as you hold down those buttons. But I would think there should be a way to make it work with any button input somehow.

Its likely you guys already know how to do this BUT looked like it was still up in the air according to the spreadsheet.

BadMouth:

--- Quote from: harddrivin on November 02, 2011, 08:56:20 pm ---If no one else has figured it out I have a way to make the shifter work for the cockpit versions of hard drivin / race drivin in mame. Works perfectly with my logitech g27 h/6speed shifter. This will work on any shifter that holds the button position BUT could be made to work on a game pad that hast he 4 buttons on top like a ps2/ps3 controller as long as you hold down those buttons. But I would think there should be a way to make it work with any button input somehow.

Its likely you guys already know how to do this BUT looked like it was still up in the air according to the spreadsheet.

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Experimenting with Hard Drivin has been on my to do list for a while.
I don't know what the solution is and it would save me (and others) a lot of time if you shared it.

I've all but ignored MAME on my driving cab because of the hi/lo gear shifter toggle hack.
Today, I finally compiled a version with Dmod's diff file (applied manually).
I'm enjoying the older sprite based games a lot more than I thought I would.  ;D

harddrivin:
Ok I hope this makes sense
Go to inputs and enter the following for ad stick x analog and ad stick y analog inputs inc and dec. Make sure the ad stick real analog inputs for x and y or set to nothing.

I will make it simple and call out the gear numbers 1-4 but assign what ever buttons you want for gears 1 to 4 for (ie what ever button or switch you want for gear 1 enter that button or switch where gear one is indicated etc) . I set it up first on my shifter but tried last night and it worked perfectly on my gamepad as well.

X Dec 1&2
X Inc 3&4
Y Dec 2&4
Y Inc 1&3

Now that works great on a shifter that stays in gear. But if you want it to work correctly on a shifter that doesnt stay in gear or a game pad etc. go to analog controls and set up y and x as follows

SET THE AUTO CENTER SPEED TO 0 or this will not work at all. This will keep it from coming back out of gear when you let go of the button, switch, etc. This step isnt needed if you have a h shifter that stays in gear.

Also make sure the reverse setting for this is turned to off.

I set the digital speed for both x and y to 200 and the sensitivity to 50 for both that way you only have to tap the button for a split second to make the shift.  But you can play around with these settings to make it work the way you want it to.

You are basically moving the inputs the same way an analog set up would from the original shifter for the game only doing it digitally.

BadMouth:

--- Quote from: harddrivin on November 03, 2011, 07:23:14 pm ---But if you want it to work correctly on a shifter that doesnt stay in gear or a game pad etc. go to analog controls and set up y and d as follows

SET THE AUTO CENTER SPEED TO 0

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I have a regular shifter, but that is friggin' brilliant! 
There is probably another use for that trick somewhere.
 :cheers:

Two more games I can add to the driving cab now.  ;D

harddrivin:
Hard Drivin and Race Drivin were never worth playing with an auto even at the arcade. You HAVE to use the clutch at times to keep the car from spinning out which you could fake by putting it in neutral instead of the clutch. BUT to slow down quickly before going off the draw bridge or the hill after the loop you could drop to first or second and dump the clutch while standing on the brake to slow down much faster. This let you run the course much faster.

I got my g27 last Friday and didnt mess with mame much that night but on Saturday I would not give up until i found a way to make it work for hard drivin. Took me about an hour to figure it out. Without being in the service mode and watching how the shifter analog inputs worked I never would have figured it out.

Maybe someone can let the guys at mame know how to do this and they can add it to the faq section for this game as they really dont go into much detail on how to set up shifters. The compact version didnt use the analog shifter BUT setting up a game pad to work the steering wheel of the compact is near impossible.

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