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NoOne=NBA=:
How DOES MAME read an analogue stick for digital games?

Does it read the stick immediately, or do you have to get the stick so far in a certain direction before it reads it?
Grasshopper:
Forgive my ignorance, but who is selling these 49 way interfaces?
dema:

--- Quote from: Grasshopper on May 02, 2004, 09:19:21 am ---Forgive my ignorance, but who is selling these 49 way interfaces?

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It was just announced the other day on the BYOAC home page. Here's the link...

http://dave.bit2000.com/
Sylentwulf:

--- Quote from: dema on May 01, 2004, 08:28:30 pm ---Do you mean that there is some sort of hack that can be done to get it to work? Or even a possible adapter for the Xbox to the PC? I'm not familiar with any type of instructional which converts a USB to XBox control.

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I carry the xbox USB adapters, and some PC controllers DO work on the xbox. The problem is, you won't know until you try it (or do a LOT of googling)

Adapters for all systems can be found here - http://www.electricquarter.com/contadapt.htm
Grasshopper:
The interface seems to treat the 49-way sticks as standard analogue HID devices. So what you're essentially getting is an interface to connect a (relatively) cheap arcade quality analogue joystick to a PC.

This would certainly be very useful for some games. However most games require digital joysticks, so I suppose that most people who fit one of these to a panel would be using it as a digital joysticks for most of the time.

The advantage of using one of these instead of a standard digital joystick is that you can alter the joystick's sensitivity (I've just read this in the MAME faq).

What I'm wondering is how MAME treats analogue joysticks in games that expect a 4 way digital joystick such as Pacman. Does it divide the joystick's 360 degree range of movement into 4 segments? I'm guessing not as I haven't seen any mention of this in the MAME faq. It would certainly be a cool feature (4/8 way switching through software!) although obviously not quite as good as having a joystick with a proper diamond shaped restrictor. Maybe someone should mention this to the MAME developers so that they can incorporate it into the next release.

Paige, do you know whether they use springs or rubber grommets to generate resistance to movement? I look forward to your review.
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