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How to interface Ivan Stewart 3 player controls to MAME?

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BadMouth:


--- Quote from: PL1 on October 21, 2012, 11:02:26 pm ---Wouldn't using the z-axis cause the same problem that you encounter with spinners since windows handles z-axis inputs as 4 steps per transition, instead of one-to-one for the X-axis and Y-axis?

Details on the z-axis spinner issue mentioned in this thread.

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Was not aware of that issue.
I learnted sumfin.
Thanks.  :)

albrigsr:

Guys,
Thanks for your help thus far.  If I read it all correctly then it looks like a U-Hid is the way to go with regard to the controls as it can handle everything (I did forget the coin switches!  Thanks!).  I will review the link for the U-Hid.

Paige - I have seen some converters.  It looks like Andy has a VGA Breakout cable
( http://www.ultimarc.com/JShopServer/section.php?xSec=11&xPage=1&jssCart=600ad12d035c5db0654f71f93a876e55 ) on his site or a J-Pac could work for video as well.

matsadona - I have had two issues.  First, the sound is very staticy (not sure that's a word so perhaps a better phrase is that the sound contains much static!).  It's not the volume pot as I have tested for that.  It's possible that the power supply needs to be changed as maybe it's not properly grounded or something.  I will try to do that.  The second issue is that the game ahs started to freeze and garbage appears on the screen.  This is intermittent but when it has happened it wasn't resolved with a power cycle but rather turning off the machine and coming back several days later.  That too could likely be a power issue so that's what I will attempt.  If a new power supply doesn't work then I will likely move toward the MAME route as the posts I have seen on usenet or KLOV all point to people spending hours on end reseating ROMS, changing chips, etc. all utimately with no success.  It's a real bummer because it's a great game and there's nothing like a 3 way race between friends or with my two young sons!

Again, thanks to everyone for the quick responses and let me know if I need to know anything else.

matsadona:

I think you are on the right track having the PSU as the main suspect. Correct voltages is really critical and from my experience that is usually the problem. Let's hope that is the case here.
But if you are going for MAME, maybe you'll sell me the board ;)

albrigsr:

matsadona,
No problem.  I will let you know.  Just don't bet against me now on the power supply fix! ;D

albrigsr:

I bought a new power supply finally from Tornado Terry and installed it.  It solved the static problem.  I just wanted ot post in case someone else has the same problem.

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