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Los Abrazos Rotos:
It probably just personal preference - Its just something i have noticed with this stick.  As you move the stick, just before you apply pressure and move the spring it feels like there is a small area around the centre that it sticks in.  Obviously if the joystick is off centre when I start a game that uses a wheel or dial its a bit annoying as the cursor/character goes flying across the screen.  I could disable the stick in every game but dont really want to have to do that. 

Its definitely worse since I replaced the stick with the longer shaft and harder spring.
AndyWarne:

--- Quote from: Los Abrazos Rotos on May 21, 2012, 05:03:48 am ---It probably just personal preference - Its just something i have noticed with this stick.  As you move the stick, just before you apply pressure and move the spring it feels like there is a small area around the centre that it sticks in.  Obviously if the joystick is off centre when I start a game that uses a wheel or dial its a bit annoying as the cursor/character goes flying across the screen.  I could disable the stick in every game but dont really want to have to do that. 

Its definitely worse since I replaced the stick with the longer shaft and harder spring.

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But this should not happen because games which react to this type of input have a dead zone in Mame. The first thing to do is find out why its moving the mouse pointer as its possible that whatever software is doing that does not have a dead zone configured. In analog mode, unlike most analog game controllers the U360 does not have a dead zone by default because this is provided by Mame if configured correctly.
Los Abrazos Rotos:
I have no idea why it does it, I cant find any kind of setting in windows or gameex.
gamepimp:
Do u have the U-360 plug-in enabled in GameEx? I do. And I noticed that when I exit the frontend, the joystick acts as a mouse in Windows. I think when u leave MAME, the plug-in might send the mouse map to the sticks. To test my theory, I went to UltraMap program and sent the "analog" map to the joysticks. They no longer moved the cursor in Windows. I went back to GameEx, launched the game Rastan in MAME (which uses an 8-way map, I believe), exited MAME, exited GameEx, and sure enough the joysticks moved the cursor in Windows again...
Los Abrazos Rotos:
Yes! Thats it - how can this be stopped without disabling the plugin?  Does mame map the joysticks perfectly well without the plugin?
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