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MAME32 w/ PC steering wheels
bfeur666:
hello everyone - this is my first post so be nice ;D
Has anyone out there successfully gotten a PC steering wheel to work with MAME32 (ver .57 - .59)? I have a Thrustmaster Charger steering wheel that works fine in PC games but I can't seem to map the gas pedal control within MAME32. The steering work but the pedals won't. Is this a MAME issue, a wheel issue or what? I've tried everything and I'm out of ideas.
Incidently, when I try to go into the config menu with the TAB key and set Pedal 1 it is just ignoring my inputs and the field stays blank. Any suggestions are appreciated.
Donor:
I'm not sure if this will help ya or not but here goes, I recently bought a pc game controller that had software with that would allow you to map keystrokes thru your controller. The program would run it the windows background, all you would have to do is make button 1=ctrl, 2=alt and so on. So when I went into mame and hit button 1 it saw the alt key. I don't know if your steering wheel came with software like this or if you could find somthing on the net?
Lilwolf:
I have in the past. I had it setup as a joystick to get it working. Make sure you have in your mame.ini the joystick=1 (or makek6.ini if you are running mamek6.exe... that one caught me a few days ago)
Anyway, the trouble with pc steering wheels is they don't rotate like the originals. Most arcade racing games you can fully spin the wheel around multiple times. I've never seen a PC steering wheel that worked like this.
btw, I bought 5 steering wheels on ebay for about 15 bucks each. I haven't hacked them yet since I don't have time... but hopefully soon. I still need an encoder wheel to hack it to a mouse (you can make one from a CD)
u_rebelscum:
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hello everyone - this is my first post so be nice ;D
Has anyone out there successfully gotten a PC steering wheel to work with MAME32 (ver .57 - .59)? I have a Thrustmaster Charger steering wheel that works fine in PC games but I can't seem to map the gas pedal control within MAME32. The steering work but the pedals won't. Is this a MAME issue, a wheel issue or what? I've tried everything and I'm out of ideas.
Incidently, when I try to go into the config menu with the TAB key and set Pedal 1 it is just ignoring my inputs and the field stays blank. Any suggestions are appreciated.
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I have a (cheap) Saitek R100 PC steering wheel + pedals that works in mame. One question about your Charger: can you split the pedals so the gas and brake are on different axis? I don't think mame handles this well.
If possible, try setting the pedals so they are "combined", ie: share the Y axis. (My pedals cannot be spilt, and are always combined.)
Can you post if this is true or false? I'd like to know before getting a higher quality set of pedals. Thanks
Lilwolf:
analog mame is the continuation of pedal mame that took care of a ton of steering wheel troubles. Take a look at it