I must be dumb...

[Rick]

...but I cannot, for the life of me, figure out how to get my GP-WIZ40 (from GroovyGameGear) to work properly.

I've wired it all up, have plugged it into the USB and watched the driver install properly. Now, I can't determine how to configure it. When I go into Notepad, none of the buttons or joystick positions register - which I assume is correct, as this is a USB gamepad adapter I believe, and whereas a keyboard emulator would show button presses... But, now I'm stumped. Do I need some type of driver? Do I just don't understand MAMEUIFX control configuration?

What am I missing? Does anyone know what I should be doing next? (Is it "dump MAMEUIFX and go with so-and-so"?)

Thanks!

Rick

[yotsuya]

...but I cannot, for the life of me, figure out how to get my GP-WIZ40 (from GroovyGameGear) to work properly.

I've wired it all up, have plugged it into the USB and watched the driver install properly. Now, I can't determine how to configure it. When I go into Notepad, none of the buttons or joystick positions register - which I assume is correct, as this is a USB gamepad adapter I believe, and whereas a keyboard emulator would show button presses... But, now I'm stumped. Do I need some type of driver? Do I just don't understand MAMEUIFX control configuration?

What am I missing? Does anyone know what I should be doing next? (Is it "dump MAMEUIFX and go with so-and-so"?)

Thanks!

Rick

GP-Wiz is a joystick encoder, not a keyboard encoder, so yeah, you won't see anything in Notepad. Open up the Joystick utility in your control panels to test it there.

If it's kosher, go into MAME, and set your controls there if necessary.

[Rick]

GP-Wiz is a joystick encoder, not a keyboard encoder, so yeah, you won't see anything in Notepad. Open up the Joystick utility in your control panels to test it there. If it's kosher, go into MAME, and set your controls there if necessary.

AH! A control panel entry - I never thought to check. (Never had reason before now, really.)

THANKS!

Update: YAY, and DAMN! I just used the tester, and validated every one of my buttons works perfectly! And every one of my joystick entries is rotated one switch to the right. (So, up is right, right is down, etc. etc.) So, first, we kill the Batman. Err. I mean, first, we fix the configuration.

[Slippyblade]

Update: YAY, and DAMN! I just used the tester, and validated every one of my buttons works perfectly! And every one of my joystick entries is rotated one switch to the right. (So, up is right, right is down, etc. etc.) So, first, we kill the Batman. Err. I mean, first, we fix the configuration.

At least with an issue like that you know EXACTLY what the deal is.  I once wired up a game pad encoder and got all sorts of screwed up inputs.  Turned out that I had the pinout rotated 90 degrees wrong. 

[Rick]

At least with an issue like that you know EXACTLY what the deal is.  I once wired up a game pad encoder and got all sorts of screwed up inputs. Turned out that I had the pinout rotated 90 degrees wrong.

It is certainly a learning experience! It's actually the first time I've done it - and I've been working on my own cabinet for three years now. Now, I'm into the whole front-end configuration piece. Ugh. Not enjoying this. I believe I have some differences between my ROMs and my MAME revision...