FFB Arcade Plugin

[Boomslang]

you use Windows 10?

[Eduardoml]

needs to be set to Upright Cabinet or you won't recieve FFB Output Values

I did it, I forgot to say in the other post, it didn't work, no effect, in the log it looks like the plugin didn't receive any FFB output values, it must be some problem with the Rom version, maybe.

[Boomslang]

hm I'm not sure sorry

So every other game works fine except virtua racing?

Virtua Formula doesn't work so just wanna confirm it is Virtua Racing you are using

[Eduardoml]

It's working. 

What happened was that I was using an incompatible rom, I downloaded a rom for Mame 0.193 and used that version and it worked perfectly. Thanks for the support, I was already going crazy  haheheheue

[MrThunderwing]

So, I got the MAME FFB up and running today, great work as always Boomslang, thanks!

Let me just share a handy little tip to anyone setting this up for the first time, to save them a fruitless hour and a bit of head scratching and wondering why it's not working - make sure your mame.ini file has actually saved as an ini file. When I was getting everything set up initially the text file I was putting the info into saved itself as a text file called mame.ini... FFS. I eventually twigged what the problem was when I realised it didn't have the cog thing in the icon.

Because this took a bit of finagling to get working in the end, I'm not sure whether I ended up using your Windows 7 Test plugin or the regular MAME 64 bit one, but Virtua Racing, Outrunners and Outrun all work OK. Super Chase Criminal Termination hangs for me though at the 'press any key to continue' screen, which is odd, because I definitely had it working earlier and I'm sure on that early test go the FFB was working.

Also, if anyone's struggling to get their old Virtua Racing ROM working in the latest version MAME make sure you have a file called model1io.zip file and m1comm.zip in your ROMs folder. I was still missing one last EPROM - epr-15624.17 but I was able to find it in an old Virtua Formula zipped file I had. Extracted it, added to my VR.zip and game is now working

[Boomslang]

So, I got the MAME FFB up and running today, great work as always Boomslang, thanks!

Let me just share a handy little tip to anyone setting this up for the first time, to save them a fruitless hour and a bit of head scratching and wondering why it's not working - make sure your mame.ini file has actually saved as an ini file. When I was getting everything set up initially the text file I was putting the info into saved itself as a text file called mame.ini... FFS. I eventually twigged what the problem was when I realised it didn't have the cog thing in the icon.

Because this took a bit of finagling to get working in the end, I'm not sure whether I ended up using your Windows 7 Test plugin or the regular MAME 64 bit one, but Virtua Racing, Outrunners and Outrun all work OK. Super Chase Criminal Termination hangs for me though at the 'press any key to continue' screen, which is odd, because I definitely had it working earlier and I'm sure on that early test go the FFB was working.

Also, if anyone's struggling to get their old Virtua Racing ROM working in the latest version MAME make sure you have a file called model1io.zip file and m1comm.zip in your ROMs folder. I was still missing one last EPROM - epr-15624.17 but I was able to find it in an old Virtua Formula zipped file I had. Extracted it, added to my VR.zip and game is now working

Do you use Windows 7 or 10?

Having issues with Windows 7 and new games, sorted most of them out now but Super Chase seems to be wierd still for people. It works fine on my pc tho across 3 x different versions of mame across Windows 10 and Windows 7 VM lol so its hard for me to fix

[MrThunderwing]

Windows 7 - I forgot to mention that in my original post, which was why initially I was using the test plugin. I was trying to get this working using 2 diffrent versions of MAME initially and one of them I overwrote with the regular 64bit MAME plugin, but by the time I realised what had happened with the text document not actually saving as an ini file, I'd lost track of which version of MAME was the one I'd used the regular plugin on  Herp derp.

[Boomslang]

Windows 7 - I forgot to mention that in my original post, which was why initially I was using the test plugin. I was trying to get this working using 2 diffrent versions of MAME initially and one of them I overwrote with the regular 64bit MAME plugin, but by the time I realised what had happened with the text document not actually saving as an ini file, I'd lost track of which version of MAME was the one I'd used the regular plugin on  Herp derp.

all good

Ive been doing all sorts of test plugins trying to get everything sorted before i do next release

Just need to get Super Chase more stable for others etc

[Nnanard8]

Hi everybody !
I have a question :   what is the point to have ffb for gun games ? Is it working with rumbleling xbox controler ? I use wiimote to play with gun games (teknoparrot and mame), is it possible to use the rumble option of the wiimote ? The problem is the wiimote are emulating a mouse, so no rumble...


MrThunderwing

[Boomslang]

Yes it rumbles fine on wiimote with ffb plugin

[MrThunderwing]

Boomslang, is the original Chase HQ something that you'll be able to get FFB or motor shaking effects working with in MAME? I think I was about 12 years old the last time I played an actual Chase HQ arcade cabinet and I can't recall if the wheel had any motorised functions or not.

[Xynie]

Hey guys!  Having fun with this... followed all the readme files and got it all working (although my brake and gas are mixed up on 2049, that's a story for another day).  My G29 seems like it has a huge deadzone, I played around with the min/max and feedbacklength (to 270), and that brought the stronger feedback in, but it was still a huge deadzone - the cars didn't turn until I was at or past 90 degrees.  How do you strink that zone?  Appreciate the help!

[nipsmg]

Hey guys!  Having fun with this... followed all the readme files and got it all working (although my brake and gas are mixed up on 2049, that's a story for another day).  My G29 seems like it has a huge deadzone, I played around with the min/max and feedbacklength (to 270), and that brought the stronger feedback in, but it was still a huge deadzone - the cars didn't turn until I was at or past 90 degrees.  How do you strink that zone?  Appreciate the help!

It's not your wheel.. it's mame.  Mame has a joystick_deadzone setting that's set to 0.3 by default that gives a MASSIVE deadzone for driving games.

I go through how i set it per game and globally in this post here:
http://forum.arcadecontrols.com/index.php/topic,162932.msg1717985.html#msg1717985

[Xynie]

Hey guys!  Having fun with this... followed all the readme files and got it all working (although my brake and gas are mixed up on 2049, that's a story for another day).  My G29 seems like it has a huge deadzone, I played around with the min/max and feedbacklength (to 270), and that brought the stronger feedback in, but it was still a huge deadzone - the cars didn't turn until I was at or past 90 degrees.  How do you strink that zone?  Appreciate the help!

It's not your wheel.. it's mame.  Mame has a joystick_deadzone setting that's set to 0.3 by default that gives a MASSIVE deadzone for driving games.

I go through how i set it per game and globally in this post here:
http://forum.arcadecontrols.com/index.php/topic,162932.msg1717985.html#msg1717985

Thanks so much - will give that a run!

[RetroFliper - Arcade]

Hey guys!  Having fun with this... followed all the readme files and got it all working (although my brake and gas are mixed up on 2049, that's a story for another day).  My G29 seems like it has a huge deadzone, I played around with the min/max and feedbacklength (to 270), and that brought the stronger feedback in, but it was still a huge deadzone - the cars didn't turn until I was at or past 90 degrees.  How do you strink that zone?  Appreciate the help!

In mame reset the deadzone option to 004.

Hello guys! I start my participation in the forum thanking Boomslang for the excellent work and solidarity in making the ffb plugin available for free. Thank you!

[nipsmg]

Welcome!

[Boomslang]

New Version of FFB Arcade Plugin. Now Version 2.2

https://github.com/Boomslangnz/FFBArcadePlugin/releases

[isamu]

Wow excellent buddy! Gonna test it out on Initial D Zero.

Quick question....which of the force parameter sliders from the main ffb settings menu is actually affected when using the FFB Dynamic Strength Adjustment? Is it the Min Force slider? The Max Force Slider? Or both?

Also, if it's possible can you add an independent FFB Dynamic Strength Adjustment to the "Force Spring Strength" slider and the "Force Feedback Length" slider in a future update? Would be cool to play around with those in real time as well.

[Boomslang]

Changes Max Force

Min should always be set at 0

[isamu]

Okay copy. Just tested it out with a nice session of Daytona via model 2 and Sega rally. Working very very well. Tested it out with ID 0 and works there perfectly as well. Great job brah!

[RetroFliper - Arcade]

I can't activate FFB in Supermodel 3. Yes, I disabled the emulator's native FFB. Should I put the command "-outputs = win" in the Supermodel.ini file in the Config folder? What am I doing wrong?

[MotownC]

Do you have the MAME64.dll or MAME32.dll file in your SM folder? Somewhat silly but something I have overlooked in the past, have you run the FFBPlugingui.exe and set it up with the proper Device GUID? Does the ForceFeeback test work in the GUI?

[RetroFliper - Arcade]

Do you have the MAME64.dll or MAME32.dll file in your SM folder? Somewhat silly but something I have overlooked in the past, have you run the FFBPlugingui.exe and set it up with the proper Device GUID? Does the ForceFeeback test work in the GUI?

Yes Yes Yes. I think the error is related to the command "-outputs=win", is it really spelled correctly? Can I put it anywhere in the "Supermodel.ini" file? I had no problem with MAME.

[Boomslang]

I dont have it in my supermodel.ini file, I just use shortcut with it in personally

From memory it's something like

Supermodel.exe daytona2.zip -outputs=win

[Boomslang]

Read Below

[Boomslang]

New Version of FFB Arcade Plugin. Now Version 2.2c

https://github.com/Boomslangnz/FFBArcadePlugin/releases/

[PepsiBoy428]

Hi I have a Logitech G920 wheel and I can't get this plugin to work with Rush 2049, I'm using MAME 0.222 64 bit and my wheel acts loose with this plugin, I'm also using the latest version of the FFBInput plugin (v2.2b) and Windows 10, How do I fix this?

[Boomslang]

Does ffb test work in gui?

[PepsiBoy428]

Does ffb test work in gui?

Yes it does work in the GUI but I can't get it to work with Rush 2049 in-game

[Boomslang]

Does ffb test work in gui?

Yes it does work in the GUI but I can't get it to work with Rush 2049 in-game

Does it work with any game supported?

I don't know the steps you have done but should be pretty straightforward

Copy all files to mame folder
Set up mame.ini as instructed in readme
Load FFBPluginGUI.exe and select device guid from ffb setup

[PepsiBoy428]

Does ffb test work in gui?

Yes it does work in the GUI but I can't get it to work with Rush 2049 in-game

Does it work with any game supported?

I don't know the steps you have done but should be pretty straightforward

Copy all files to mame folder
Set up mame.ini as instructed in readme
Load FFBPluginGUI.exe and select device guid from ffb setup

I just tried setting it up just like that and it's still not working

[Boomslang]

Send log

[PepsiBoy428]

Here's my log file

[Boomslang]

Hmm not recieving any values

Odd.

I'll be home soon so will have a test on my pc

[Boomslang]

Just got home and installed latest mame and set up FFB Plugin here and everything works fine on SF2049 for me, recieving FFB immediately

[PepsiBoy428]

That's weird, I can't get mine to work.

[Boomslang]

Give this a try

Added couple things to log to see what's going on

[PepsiBoy428]

Give this a try

Added couple things to log to see what's going on

Still doesn't work sadly

[Boomslang]

I need new log lol

I added things to log

[PepsiBoy428]

I need new log lol

I added things to log

Here's an updated log.