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Tiger-Heli:


--- Quote from: Truz on March 09, 2004, 11:07:50 am ---well i went and tried out the x-arcade test utility and i found something very interesting.


Whenever i press the button that represents shift (1 button in the second row) it will not allow me to move the joystick. It is like it is get locked for some reason. When mashing all the buttons together everything seemed fine. But when i hit the shift button and the control stick together it goes all haywire. It as if the cancel eachother out or something. Its really weird.

I even mashed down every single button (except shift) and then moved the control stick and it works perfectly.


So basically when shift and the control stick are moved and pressed together it doesnt work.  Sometimes it will register shift , but most of the time it wont register either the stick or shift being pressed.

Pretty weird if you ask me, what do you guys think?

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Not sure how Shift works (u just mean the button that is mapped to L shift, correct).

Try running MAME and pressing this button and moving your joystick, if it beeps now, then you've found the problem.

Next try re-programming the X-Arcade to assing this button to something other than Shift, re-run the setup, see if the problem goes away.  If so, remap P1B4 in MAME to whatever you changed it to and you should be golden.

Truz:

well i went into mame and tried out to see if pressing the button mapped to left shift and the control stick would cause the beep, but it didnt. They worked fine together while in mame.

But also here is another weird bit of information... when i play games in MAME with my x-arcade i have to turn the num lock off on my usb keyboard or else the control stick wont work and only the buttons will. But if i run the x-arcade test utility i have to have num lock on or else the control stick wont work. Kind of odd if you ask me, maybe it is another clue in "The great beeping motherboard mystery"

Tiger-Heli:


--- Quote from: Truz on March 09, 2004, 01:18:03 pm ---well i went into mame and tried out to see if pressing the button mapped to left shift and the control stick would cause the beep, but it didnt. They worked fine together while in mame.

But also here is another weird bit of information... when i play games in MAME with my x-arcade i have to turn the num lock off on my usb keyboard or else the control stick wont work and only the buttons will. But if i run the x-arcade test utility i have to have num lock on or else the control stick wont work. Kind of odd if you ask me, maybe it is another clue in "The great beeping motherboard mystery"

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Weird, seems like a conflict somewhere, but I'm all out of ideas.

Truz:

i just wanna say thanks alot for all of your help tigerheli, you have been tremendous help. Hopefully i figure this thing out.










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Truz:

well i went and tried to use the x-arcade with ps/2 keyboard plugged into the passport on the x-arcade and i still had the problem with the shift button and the control stick.



Also i am having a problem with mamewah (hehe the probs just keep on coming) everytime i start it up and then try to activate a game it gives a "runtime error 75" and something like file path error... not to sure. So i go into mamewah setup utility and then repoint it to the mame.exe so it can reload all the roms and then it works. But everytime time i restart mamewah it gives me the same error and i have to go back to the setup utility again. Its like mamewah keeps forgetting where the files are or something. Its really annoying as every time i shut down mamewah it and then try to play again later on it wont work until i reload the mame exe into the mamewah setup utility. whats the deal here?

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