Cruisin USA H shifter and Mame

[DTAR]

I've looked around it I still haven't found a way to make the H shifter work in Mame. Anyone have the solution?

[buttersoft]

How is the shifter normally wired in, how are you connecting it to the PC. IF the PC will show the input somehow, there should be a way to get that into MAME.

[baritonomarchetto]

How is your shifter wired?

[DTAR]

Sorry, the shifter is wired into an a- pac. The problem is that Mame only recognizes the the pressed button is depressed. The shifter holds the button closed in each gear.

[buttersoft]

Hmmm, there were versions of Racermame to combat the fact a lot of older games with the hi-lo shift had the same single switch closed for lo, open for hi or vice versa. I think that's been put into mainline mame now. I certainly know that playing chase hq with my sequential, i hit the same direction (up) to change gears between high and lo each time. If i'm in hi, i push up and i get lo, and if lo i push up and get hi. There's no onscreen indication either.

You might try something like joytokey, that will see the apac, and probably allow you to set keypresses and duration. Or if not, autohotkey will let you set duration with the command "setkeydelay, 0, 50" where 0ms is time index when the press is triggered, and 50ms is when it's released.

Then we need to think of a way to get the keypresses to activate in a meaningful way using something like autohotkey.

I think the problem is with game tho, and the fact you can only set the one gear change command. Because even if you use joytokey to set the same keypress to more than one position, you can still wrongfoot yourself so up is down by just leaving the shifter in the wrong position when the game boots, etc.

[baritonomarchetto]

Mame asks for a key press and release to assign the key. You could disconnect the shifter, assign the keys with your keyboard and then reconnect.
If you don't know which key is assigned to which shift position, open notepad and move your shifter to all the positions.

[BadMouth]

It's been a long time (circa MAME v.134) but I've played Cruisin' USA with an Act Labs, Logitech G27, and hacked Sega/Ketz....never had a problem.
I suppose something could have changed in MAME.

Again, what shifter are you using?  Does it have 3 or 4 switches?

The Sega ones only used 3 switches.  Here is some info on those:http://forum.arcadecontrols.com/index.php/topic,106709.msg1130503.html#msg1130503
I thought the Happ one had 4 switches, so it should work fine with the exception of not going into neutral since MAME latches the gears.

Exactly what is the problem you are having?  Is it just the lack of neutral that bothers you?

[esoteric_rt]

I manged to get this working easily with our Daytona Twin, which pretty much has the same shifter design? (4 microswitches). I was using the M2 Emulator also.

But anyways,

Hold the shifter joystick in the middle of the plate, so it isn't engaging a microswitch. Get MAME ready to accept the key press for that particular gear. Then move the shifter into that gear, hence engaging the micro switch. Repeat for the other 3 gears

Give that a try