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xga:
Hi Guys,

Does anyone know if there's a way to get games like Outrun working with a sequential gear shifter that auto return to centre?  E.g. Moving the shifter to the down position will only shift the gear to low and moving the shifter to the up position will only shift the gear to high.

I've had a look at H2Seq, but I don't think that can help in this situation.  I think it might have to be at the driver level?



Thanks in advance.

BadMouth:
I haven't actually used it because I have a 4 speed, but I thought that's what H2Seq did.

You do have to use a version of MAME that doesn't have the shifter in the game set up on a toggle.
Either RacerMAME or v.151 or newer with custom settings in the individual game cfg.
This is covered in the stickied driving cab info thread.
I'd give RacerMAME a try since it's from the same author as H2Seq.

It's important to keep in mind how these old Hi/Lo games originally worked.
To save money, they only had one switch for either Hi or Lo.  If the switch wasn't tripped, the game just assumed you were in the other gear.
So the way a solution would have to work would be to engage the virtual switch when you push a direction, then disengage the virtual switch if (and only if) you push the other direction.
Not sure if that's exactly how H2Seq works.

baritonomarchetto:
H2Seq helps you using H shifter games (es. Daytona usa, hard drivin' etc) in a cab with sequential shifter (like yours). In addition helps using a single button to cycle between multiple views, but this is something i added later. As far as i know there's not out there a way to use single switch gear games like outrun, chase hq etc with 2 switches the way you intend: only toggle. For shure H2Seq cannot handle the shifter that way. Using Racermame160 in most of those games in the per-game video options you can set the Cshifter icon, which is a (better looking in my opinion) alternative to the mame default shifter icon.

Nuexzz:

--- Quote from: xga on November 19, 2015, 06:49:55 am ---Hi Guys,

Does anyone know if there's a way to get games like Outrun working with a sequential gear shifter that auto return to centre?  E.g. Moving the shifter to the down position will only shift the gear to low and moving the shifter to the up position will only shift the gear to high.

I've had a look at H2Seq, but I don't think that can help in this situation.  I think it might have to be at the driver level?



Thanks in advance.




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Tell me the 2 buttons you want to assign ? Button5 example ( up ) and 6 button ( down ) and I could help with a script.

xga:

--- Quote from: Nuexzz on November 19, 2015, 11:26:48 pm ---
--- Quote from: xga on November 19, 2015, 06:49:55 am ---Hi Guys,

Does anyone know if there's a way to get games like Outrun working with a sequential gear shifter that auto return to centre?  E.g. Moving the shifter to the down position will only shift the gear to low and moving the shifter to the up position will only shift the gear to high.

I've had a look at H2Seq, but I don't think that can help in this situation.  I think it might have to be at the driver level?



Thanks in advance.




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Tell me the 2 buttons you want to assign ? Button5 example ( up ) and 6 button ( down ) and I could help with a script.

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Hi Nuexzz,

Thanks for the offer of helping with a script.

Button 5 (z key) = up
Button 6 (x key) = down

Thanks

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