Hi,
Great work on the plugin.
Am experiencing the same issue as others have mentioned with Mame, the plugin works from the Mame UI, everytime, but at best, works once per boot of the machine (rarely) from the command line. as others have mentioned, the ffb plugin hooks but doesn't see the rom name.
Now I can't see this being an issue with the plugin, nor Mame to be honest, as for the majority of people it seems, running from the command line works for them.
Changing the output to network btw, Rave Racer picks up the ffb fine, Hard Drivin\Outrun etc provide ffb to the wheel, but not in line with the game, I presume because the plugin still doesn't know which game is running and is just processing the raw values.
Anyway, have tried everything mentioned in these pages and more, still can't get it to work from the command line. Will live with booting Mame UI for these games unless somebody has any ideas I have not yet tried.
Have tried, setting output to windows, both in the mame ini and on the command line, checked for extra instances of the output entries in other .inis, fresh installs of both mame and the plugin, fresh instances of the roms, various directory locations, bat files, running as admin.
I do have another instance of ffb plugin in my DaytonaUSA game folder but from my understanding that should not matter as the plugin just hooks into the running executable in the same folder it is in so you can have as many copies of the plugin as you like if they are in different folders.
Anyway, out of ideas now, hoping someone here can provide insight into what might be the cause on my system so I can remove that step of launching the Mame UI first instead of directly from LaunchBox.
Cheers