Issue with spinner and 720

[martin35]

Hello Guys

I’m experiencing a problem with the spinner and 720 on my mame cabinet.

I use to run my cabinet with an old dual Core processor from around 2008 running MAme 181 and everything was running great until it dies last week. As a backup I’ve installed an even older Pentium4 with Mame 141. It works ok but I have a problem with 720. The spinner work but I’m only able to spin the skateboard 180deg at a time, there is nothing in between. I wonder if it’s mame version issue and if so, which is the oldest mame version without that issue ?

Hopefully there is a 720 guru out there able to help me

Thanks for the help

Martin

[DarthMarino]

At some point they changed the way the controls are handled in MAME.  How do you have it set in game configuration?  I have a youtube video on the various control settings in MAME if you need help with it. 

[martin35]

Great. I will look at it tonight

Thanks a lot

Martin

[paigeoliver]

Also it will never be RIGHT, without the RIGHT controller. The right controller has a special encoder setup so that one spin of the wheel is always one spin of the skater and whichever way you face the handle the skater faces that way.

[martin35]

Thank you Darthmarino, your video is very informative. I've did some test yesterday and it looks like I have a rom VS Mame version issue. Stangely I cannot open 720 directly with mame( I got a missing rom error message) but it works thru Maximus....

Like I said it works but when I push Tab I have a really limited menu where I cannot change the controler type. I've tried with different rom version with the same result.

I will probably wait to have a better PC to reinstall a more recent mame version unless you have another suggestion

Thank you your help

Martin

[paigeoliver]

720 has been working in mame for like 17 years, latest version is not going to be your fix.

[martin35]

Interesting, I will try to dig a little deeper.

Thanks

Martin