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Howard_Casto:
Ok here is the tough one... mame.  I know Badmouth has emphasized this before as have I, but I can't stress this enough.  This stuff takes time and patience.  I only got the first dozen or so setup and I haven't even fine-tuned anything or setup mamehooker outputs yet and it took me around 45 minutes.  Be warned, you will have to manually adjust the settings of every single solitary game in mame. 

Anyway, mame's setup has it's quirks and although it has been covered before this stuff bears repeating.  There are a few steps you need to go through with each game so I'll just go down the line.

1.  Do NOT pause the game while you are setting up controls... mame doesn't like that.
2. Use split axis for mame, as some games need both pedals at the same time.
3. To set a pedal in mame, highlight the "pedal analog" entry in the menu, press enter, and then press the pedal down once. Do NOT mess with the INC and DEC entries.  As a matter of fact, once you set the analog one you might want to clear the dec/inc settings by pressing enter to set them and then pressing escape.
4.  If the game has a service menu, enter it and enter the input testing section.  Test your pedals... they should register 0 when they aren't pressed.  If they don't go into mame's analog settings and reverse the axis. 
5.  These days pedals are usually labeled in mame, but if they aren't typically pedal 1 is gas, 2 is brake and 3 is clutch. 
6.  For games that have digital pedals, there is a trick to mapping inverted analog pedals in mame.  Highlight the entry, hold down the pedal and THEN press enter.  Now release the pedal.  That should work for games like great thousand miles rally and the neogeo racers.
7.  Although this is going away, the dec/inc mappings for pedals are sometimes mapped to the same button as the shifter or other game buttons.  This is why you should clear all the dec/inc entires if at all possible. 

Anyway, I think that covers most of it.  If I can think of anything else in regards to mame, I'll add it later.

PL1:

--- Quote from: Howard_Casto on February 20, 2016, 02:22:19 am ---2. Use split axis for mame, as some games need both pedals at the same time.

--- End quote ---
In case anyone is confused by "split axis", it is the same as "dual axis" in this illustration -- one axis per pedal.   ;D




Scott

Howard_Casto:
What he said.  All Logitech wheels are wired to have dual axis, but the profiler software can merge them virtually, so don't get confused, this isn't a wiring thing.

Howard_Casto:
Ok I'm still setting up mame games. 

Another thing that I noticed that will drive you crazy is the fact that some games don't behave properly when you first change the controls.  I've had a few games that the steering wheel becomes off-centered upon the first run of the game.  Sometimes resetting the game doesn't even help... you need to exit the game completely and everything should be ok the next time.

Howard_Casto:
Mame is done except for the mamehooker part, so on to model 2. 

M2's setup is fairly easy actually.  The one annoying thing is you have to setup each games controls individually.  To do that, launch the game then press left alt + enter to go into windowed mode and then access the game controls settings.  You check the analog inputs to enable them and double-click on the label to set them.

Model two also has two annoying issues.  It shows the mouse cursor sometimes and you can't exit with escape.  I wrote a little ahk script to take care of this:

============================
Run, emulator_multicpu.EXE %1%
sleep 4000
MouseMove, 1920,400
~Escape::
Process, Close, emulator_multicpu.EXE
ExitAPP
return
============================

Obviously change the exe name if you are using the single cpu variant. 

Troubleshooter 2 exposes many outputs for these games, but that's a discussion for another day. 

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