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Building a Star wars yoke from scratch
Danny R:
So how many people are building SW yokes based on this tutorial right now? I know I am.
Purchased my Dual Strike yesterday on ebay... $9 and change. If I bid against anyone here, sorry.
Tiger-Heli:
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--- Quote from: patrickl on March 23, 2004, 11:30:46 am ---That's weird. On my set the gas and brake use a different axis. I have the Performance set with the 3 pedals (with a seperate clutch) The clutch is a third axis.
I have not been able to get this to work with Mame btw. So maybe you can configure it to have the gas and brake to work on the same axis?
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That's actually what I was hoping - separate axis. Outrun needs this (actually, I think the brake is just a switch, not a pot in the real game), but you don't get brake lights if you use a single axis pedal set.
Patrickl, have you tried using MAME analog plus for this. I think it allows you to remap joystick axes, and I'm not sure vanilla MAME does.
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I might have to try MAME Analog plus then. The pedal set I have is actually a seperate 3 axis joystick from the steering wheel. It's not like the standard pedals that come with the wheel (where the axis of the pedals are integrated whith the wheel). I have been unable to get both controllers to work at the same time, but I haven't tried very hard either.
There was some discussion about Out Run earlier. I thought PaigeOliver said that Outrun was supposed to have a pot gas and brake. I even saw something about people hacking MAME to change this. Can't remember where I saw it though. I'm really hoping it will be a pot controlled pedal one day.
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If it's set up as a three-axis stick, I might want to pick a set up.
I saw the Outrun thread. I just checked the owner's manual on KLOV. Definitely separate brake and accel pots.
Of course all the system16 games in MAME are still being re-written so maybe this will get fixed then.
Stormy151:
I just got my Dual Strike yesterday too. Got it off Half.com for 15 bucks shipped. :D
I wonder, if you had the yoke interfaced as a joystick- would a mouse still function? Because you have 2 axes right there- they wouldn't be pots, but I bet they'd still work.
Also a question, how would I upgrade to MameAnalog from vanilla Mame? Do you just change the executable?
Tiger-Heli:
--- Quote from: Stormy151 on March 23, 2004, 02:04:13 pm ---I just got my Dual Strike yesterday too. Got it off Half.com for 15 bucks shipped. :D
I wonder, if you had the yoke interfaced as a joystick- would a mouse still function? Because you have 2 axes right there- they wouldn't be pots, but I bet they'd still work.
Also a question, how would I upgrade to MameAnalog from vanilla Mame? Do you just change the executable?
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The mouse should still work.
Upgrading - There are a couple of ways, mainly depending if you still want to use vanilla MAME or if you only want to use analog plus.
I would recommend only using analog plus.
In this case, rename your regular MAME.exe to mamestd.exe or sth. Rename your mame.ini (if you have one) to mamestd.ini
Copy the mameanalog.exe file to your mame directory and rename it mame.exe
run 'mame.exe -cc' from the command prompt to create a new mame.ini
Edit mame.ini to enable the options that you want to use.
patrickl:
--- Quote from: Tiger-Heli on March 23, 2004, 12:50:27 pm ---
--- Quote from: patrickl on March 23, 2004, 12:26:44 pm ---
--- Quote from: Tiger-Heli on March 23, 2004, 11:57:20 am ---
--- Quote from: patrickl on March 23, 2004, 11:30:46 am ---That's weird. On my set the gas and brake use a different axis. I have the Performance set with the 3 pedals (with a seperate clutch) The clutch is a third axis.
I have not been able to get this to work with Mame btw. So maybe you can configure it to have the gas and brake to work on the same axis?
--- End quote ---
That's actually what I was hoping - separate axis. Outrun needs this (actually, I think the brake is just a switch, not a pot in the real game), but you don't get brake lights if you use a single axis pedal set.
Patrickl, have you tried using MAME analog plus for this. I think it allows you to remap joystick axes, and I'm not sure vanilla MAME does.
--- End quote ---
I might have to try MAME Analog plus then. The pedal set I have is actually a seperate 3 axis joystick from the steering wheel. It's not like the standard pedals that come with the wheel (where the axis of the pedals are integrated whith the wheel). I have been unable to get both controllers to work at the same time, but I haven't tried very hard either.
There was some discussion about Out Run earlier. I thought PaigeOliver said that Outrun was supposed to have a pot gas and brake. I even saw something about people hacking MAME to change this. Can't remember where I saw it though. I'm really hoping it will be a pot controlled pedal one day.
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If it's set up as a three-axis stick, I might want to pick a set up.
I saw the Outrun thread. I just checked the owner's manual on KLOV. Definitely separate brake and accel pots.
Of course all the system16 games in MAME are still being re-written so maybe this will get fixed then.
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OK just once more OT. I just tried setting up the Act-LABS stuff in mame32+ and I guess I was just sleeping the previous time I tried. The wheel + 3 pedal (well 2 of them anyway) both work fine in Out Run. I guess a single brake/gas pedal would work fine too btw.