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| EddieArcadian:
Right, me too. Only thing I can think of is if you have more than one emulator (NES, Daphne, etc.) controlled by your Front End, this is actually nice... although in that case, each emulator only has one "right" joystick map (ex. there is only one type of correct NES controller/set of directions), so mapping the stick by emulator wouldn't be a big deal. But yes, I was surprised too... more so that Andy didn't have more detailed info on this in general. If anyone can chime-in as to how they go about using their U360's, it's appreciated. Do most of you folks just plug it in and play (making the stick analog)? |
| dgame:
If you are only using MAME set it analog and forget it. Mame auto-magically maps the controls. Generally I don't see how using external maps would be any better. Mame.exe -v romname to see what controller mapping is being used. For games like Qbert use Headkaze's Mame Analog Joystick Map Editor http://headsoft.com.au/index.php?category=mame&page=joymap to get the qbert.ini file which handles this special case. The program also includes several examples of good maps. |
| EMDB:
As I'm facing the same problem I decided to create a tool myself. I call it UltraMap4Mame. You call it from Hyperspin instead of calling mame.exe providing the same parameter (the game title). It looks in it's configuration file which mapping should be used, calls UltraMap to download the map to the stick(s) and finally calls Mame to launch the game. My testversion runs fine but needs to be cleaned up a bit. No UI (yet) for the configuration but this can be done using your favorite text editor. Here's the configuration file I currently use to test: [Settings] MamePath="f:\emulatoren\mame64\mame64.exe" UltraMapPath="E:\UltraMap\UltraMap.exe" ConfigsPath="e:\ultramap\configs" DefaultConfig="8" [Games] dkong="4" pacman="4" qbert="4-diagonal" I created a config folder with 4.ugc, 8.ugc and 4-diagonal.ugc for now. You only have to specify the games with alternative mappings. In my case the majority has 8-way mapping so only the 4-way and some special (QBert has 4-way diagonal) games have to be specified. When I'm finished I will provide a download link in the software section. |
| EMDB:
And here's the preliminary UI for UltraMap4Mame: |
| EddieArcadian:
For those following this, Here is the crosspost in the Main Forum: http://forum.arcadecontrols.com/index.php/topic,134049.0.html And EMDB posted his software on this forum: http://forum.arcadecontrols.com/index.php/topic,134128.0.html I'm excited to try this. Thanks to EMDB!!! |
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