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Servostik not working, getting windows error

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DaOld Man:
Yes its a bit more complicated than joychoose.
Run Mala.
Right click and get into the plugins sections.
Click on control choose then the configure button.
You will need to create a new action by clicking New button.
Now you should see several tabs. Mame Controls should be up front, if not click that tab.
Now select = (If Control =) Then select joy8way (If Control = Joy8way)
In the boxes below "Then Run" you can browse to the where the program to run the servo is. You can also type in the complete path, included the .exe program, but dont include the -servo parts.
In the optional argument box, put the -servo Joy8way (Cant recall exactly the command but you get what I mean.)
You should be able to test by clicking the test button. Now click OK and repeat the process for the 4 way joystick.
This program may not be completely finished, and if you can get the joychoose to work I recommend you use it. But maybe this will give you some trouble shooting help.
Also, you need to disable joychoose while using control choose, and vice versa. You can do this by either moving the unwanted plugin out of the mala plugins folder or changing its name to something like joychoose.tmp.
Good luck, and please post if this makes any different results.

DaOld Man:
Also, if you dont see any controls in the controls dropdown,  (such as Joy8way), then make sure you placed the controls.txt file I posted, into the mala/plugins/ctrlchse folder.
Please give me some feedback on this, I would like to finish this project up but its been a long time since I worked on it. I think I dropped it when mame.xml problem arose with joychoose.
I just installed it on my win10 with an older version of mame on it, and it works for me, I called a program I have on my desktop.
If you still get the error try running a different program, one you know works, to see if it will run it.
You can try that with joychoose too.

DaOld Man:
I had big plans for this plugin. It would do what joychoose did, except with a lot more different control options, plus it could rotate the monitor by calling MRotate (or any other program that does that sort of thing).
My idea was to have a lot more actions and options in a single plugin.
And by using the controls.txt file, you could change the control types whenever the xml file was changed, so control choose wouldnt mysteriously break like joychoose did.
Now why did I drop the ball and not finish it? Maybe lack of community interest, not sure now.
it may not be nailed shut, but it does work and hopefully will fix your problem.

Afterburner1970:
That is exactly what I tried last night and nothing worked.... not even the test function. Those extra files self populated  inside the MaLa plunging folder. I’ll have another look soon.

Fingers crossed

Afterburner1970:
Ok, good news and bad

I had left a joychoose file in MaLa, removed that and it worked.

No windows error.

Servo changes when different games are selected.

But....upon rebooting my machine it doesn’t work.... and I’ve seen this before in my car racing machines too. It’s because my machine is running as a shell, the joy tray program never seems to be able to execute.

If I “control ALT delete”... select task manager......”new task”, typing in Explorer it  “un-shells” and joy tray works.

Any thoughts?

I guess the only other way would be a command line.... but I don’t have any ideas how to set that up

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