Happs rotary joystick

[joe35car]

Just hooked this up with the rotary interface and would like to get this to work in Ikari Warriors. I went in the MAME setting under the game but can't get the thing to rotate. The handle moves but I can't figure out what settings I need it to be. What should the setting be under the positional analog, analog dec and analog inc?

Thanks.

[joe35car]

OK I got it working but still a little shaky. I have the 12 rotary happs joystick and went into the analog control settings to change the senitivity. What is the right setting for this game?

Thanks again from a noob

[Brian74]

Did you get this to work? I wanna do the same thing.

[nick3092]

I have a Happ rotary hooked up via the roto-x feature on my GPWiz40.  Which sends a single button press for 1 rotation/click depending if it it CW or CCW.  Assuming your interface is the same and sends one key/button for each rotation then this should work:

Input (This Game):

Positional Analog: None
Positional Analog Dec: (whatever key or button for your interface)
Positional Analog Inc: (whatever key or button for your interface)

Analog Controls:

Positional Digital Speed: 0
Positional Reverse: (depends on if you need to swap CW or CCW depending on your interface)
Positional Sensitivity: 100

[Brian74]

I have yet to buy any of the parts to do it. I already have a ipac that I use for my other joysticks. I need to figuare out what I need to make this work. I guess I could get 2 to replace the comp sticks I already have.

[nick3092]

I have yet to buy any of the parts to do it. I already have a ipac that I use for my other joysticks. I need to figuare out what I need to make this work. I guess I could get 2 to replace the comp sticks I already have.

I don't know that you would want to replace your normal 8 ways with these.  The feel of the movement is very different.  Hard to explain.  Clunky is the first word that comes to mind, but that isn't the exact word to describe it.  I certainly wouldn't want to play a fighting game, or most other games with it.

As far as making it work, you just need some form of interface.  Luckily the GPWiz I went with has the ability to read the 12 way position by tying every 3rd wire together and hooking those 3 combined wires up to the interface.  Unless your looking to replace your ipac with that, you would most likely have to get the rotary interface from Ultimarc.  That interface looks simple enough, it just sends a single keypress for each rotation.  So then the settings I posted would work with it as well.

[Brian74]

Hmm then what to do. 

[matsadona]

Is this the rotary interface you have and refer to?
http://www.ultimarc.com/rotary.html

Haven’t used it myself, but it seems pretty straightforward to configure in MAME, since it is pre-programmed with the standard MAME keys for rotation…

[Brian74]

How do you have you cp layed out if you dont mined me asking?

[nick3092]

How do you have you cp layed out if you dont mined me asking?

Me?  I went modular. I mounted all my joysticks to 4" wide panels. I wanted to be able to play games with as authentic controls as possible, so modular was pretty much the only option for me. I used a modified version of Doc's CP. I used Velcro instead of wooden dowles.