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Mame hacks that make driving games play better with mouse/spinner/360wheel
geecab:
Sorry for the delay!
Here's my mame steering hack build (Mame version v0.148 Windows 32bit).
mame_0148_geecab_hack_v1_0.zip
In the zip file there is a 'mame_0148_geecab_hack_v1_0.txt' file that reads:
--- Code: ---Mame v0.148 Geecab Hack v1.0
============================
In this build, if you run:
mame.exe -showusage
You should see that I've added 2 new options in the CORE MISC OPTIONS section:-
-hack_steering Hack: Permanently associate the mouse's axis position at
rom start, with the game's central steering wheel
position.
-hack_gears_semiauto Hack: Allows shiftup & shiftdown for racing games that
use more than 2 gears. '1st gear' key shifts you down,
'2nd gear' key shifts you up.
Example usage
=============
To run Outrun, ChaseHQ, SCI, HangOn, SuperHangOn, PowerDrift, Harddrivin
(Compact version only), RaceDrivin (Compact version only), Wec Le Mans,
KonamiGT, etc... so that they're play better with mouse apply the following:
mame.exe -mouse -hack_steering
For Harddrivin and RaceDrivin you can also apply the -hack_gears_semiauto
option:
mame.exe -mouse -hack_steering -hack_gears_semiauto
Note. The -hack_gears_semiauto option currently only works for Harddrivin
(any version) and RaceDrivin (any version).
Source code changes
===================
I modified the following 6 files (Included in the 'hacked_src_files'
directory. Search for //GEECAB comments to give you an idea where I made
my changes):
mame0148s\mame\src\emu\emuopts.h
mame0148s\mame\src\emu\emuopts.c
mame0148s\mame\src\emu\ioport.c
mame0148s\mame\src\emu\mame.c
mame0148s\mame\src\emu\ui.c
mame0148s\mame\src\mame\machine\harddriv.c
Other
=====
You can still download the original mame v0148 source and binaries from:
http://mamedev.org/oldrel.html
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Please be a little prepared as you visit the mediafire site, you might get adverts for other software appear, encoraging you to download something else. Just make sure you only click on the big green 'Download' button near to top right of the page, and the file that you download to your computer is called "mame_0148_geecab_hack_v1_0.zip" (Its 20MB in size).
geecab:
--- Quote from: Thorvald on March 07, 2017, 05:12:11 pm ---Thanks for all the work on this! I just finished my cabinet and have a pair of spinners with the 6 inch wheel attachment from Ultimarc. Works great except for those games that hate 360's...
I'm running the latest 1.82 so I'll likely have to setup a dev environment and apply your changes to a newer build. Then also look into possible LUA methods (assuming we can get to that low of a level).
Cheers
Tim
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Hi Tim! A cabinet with 2 spinners sounds cool! I bet its great for things like super sprint, warlords etc :) Unfortunately, I can't seem to build the latest version of mame anymore (I've done a bit of googling and I think its because mame's latest build environment doesn't support XP users anymore) otherwise I'd have put the steering hacks into the latest version for you. Hopefully the older version will be ok for now (Perhaps you can (like I have done) configure your cab's frontend to run different versions of mame depending on the game you select)?
Marcoqwerty:
--- Quote from: geecab on March 08, 2017, 07:39:02 pm ---Sorry for the delay!
Here's my mame steering hack build (Mame version v0.148 Windows 32bit).
mame_0148_geecab_hack_v1_0.zip
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Ehiii!! Thank you geecab! :notworthy: :notworthy: can i upload on ArcadeItalia (the most important arcade/coin-op italian forum) server your release to avoid missing file again? i provide here the link after upload it.
Yes a new release would be better, i follow on queue to the Thorvald request....
baritonomarchetto:
The most important Arcade forum in Italy is arcademania.eu, as far as I know...
Marcoqwerty:
--- Quote from: baritonomarchetto on March 09, 2017, 05:00:16 am ---The most important Arcade forum in Italy is arcademania.eu, as far as I know...
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The first (born in 2006)....and most old (11 years) ...and with the large amount of italians users!
PS: with a own wikifiles to store the arcade project and anything else useful for coin-ops and flippers
:blah:
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