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Bender:
No Problem

As far as the mapping goes
first thing to think about is you want to use any other emulators, if so LEBlinky is the way to go
are you going to be making custom maps, if so UltraMap is easier than Mame to do that, so again LEDBlinky is the the way to go

if you are not doing either of those things then the Mame Automapping is the easiest way to go

just out of curiosity what custom #'s did you end up with?
mdoggie:
To be honest, I just used the pre-made settings in the restrictor plate option in ultramap. Circular was getting closer, but it seemed to work best at 4/8 way. From there, I can just tone down the analog sensitivity in each MAME game. That seems to be doing great.

I've been messing with LED Blinky, but I'm not sure if there's a way to tell if its working to auto set the joystick maps. Tron, for example, will still hit the diagonals unless I specifically put a pre-made tron .ini in there. I'm also using hyperspin, and I'm not sure if that's causing an issue.

I've made an ini folder in MAME, and changed the joystick map thingy to -joystick_map 7777 whatever it was. Then, in LED Blinky, I'm pretty sure I've set the directories correctly, and told it I have a u360. Is there a good game to test out whether its setting the maps properly?
secret80sman:
Bender, this is all really useful information. Can you tell me how much better is using the Ultimarc software versus using maps from MAMEJoymap and dropping them into the ini folder?

Also, I never heard of auto joystick mapping in MAME, how is that accomplished? I use MAMEUI in windows 7 64 bit in case that is a factor in any of this.

Thanks man!
Bender:

--- Quote from: mdoggie on February 14, 2011, 02:44:07 pm ---To be honest, I just used the pre-made settings in the restrictor plate option in ultramap. Circular was getting closer, but it seemed to work best at 4/8 way. From there, I can just tone down the analog sensitivity in each MAME game. That seems to be doing great.

I've been messing with LED Blinky, but I'm not sure if there's a way to tell if its working to auto set the joystick maps. Tron, for example, will still hit the diagonals unless I specifically put a pre-made tron .ini in there. I'm also using hyperspin, and I'm not sure if that's causing an issue.

I've made an ini folder in MAME, and changed the joystick map thingy to -joystick_map 7777 whatever it was. Then, in LED Blinky, I'm pretty sure I've set the directories correctly, and told it I have a u360. Is there a good game to test out whether its setting the maps properly?

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Make sure you set the right restrictor in LEDblinky too

I alway check out qbert first cause it's easy to tell if the right map is installed
also Ledblinky has a debuglog that you can enable and look at to see if it loading the correct maps
also in the LEDBlinky config utility you have to pull up mame then put set it up to load the specific map for tron, that has harder to hit diagonals (you still need diagonals for the cone and spider boards)
I think LedBlinky comes with that map
Bender:

--- Quote from: secret80sman on February 14, 2011, 02:56:26 pm ---Bender, this is all really useful information. Can you tell me how much better is using the Ultimarc software versus using maps from MAMEJoymap and dropping them into the ini folder?

Also, I never heard of auto joystick mapping in MAME, how is that accomplished? I use MAMEUI in windows 7 64 bit in case that is a factor in any of this.

Thanks man!


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I'm not sure when it was implemented, but it was a while ago, so as long as you have a newish version of mame it has it's own mapping program for analog sticks very similar to the ultramap ones, you just enable it in the mame.ini file
there is more info in this threadhttp://forum.arcadecontrols.com/index.php?topic=86274.0
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