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Minwah:


--- Quote from: Silver on December 31, 2004, 10:11:33 am ---Yes I don't believe there are any games that can not be played with a 4-way shifter (and a turbo button)

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I have just mad ea 360degree wheel + 4-way (Atari) shifter panel and configured it for all 360deg driving games.

I can say that the shifter works fine for all these games (with official MAME) except dirtfoxj, which uses an up/down semi-automatic-style shifter.  For this I just use 2 buttons instead.

For toggle-style shift games, I have mapped all 4 inputs from the shifter to the 'gear shift' input in MAME, with the intention 1st/3rd are low, and 2nd/4th are hi.  The only downside to this is that hi/lo may be in different place each time, depending on the position of the shifter - as long as you bear this in mind it isn't much of a problem.

The shifter works fine for 4-speed games (of course) and also the ChaseHQ style hold-down-an-input-to-stay-in-lo shifter.

One random problem I have found is that my IPAC shift key doesn't work properly with a gear selected (input constantly down), I have to move the stick into neutral - again no biggie.

Hoagie_one:

thats good news.  I just need a good shifter then

Hoagie_one:

anyone have any experience with this happ 4 gear shifter?

http://www.happcontrols.com/driving/50849600.htm

Kremmit:


--- Quote from: Minwah on January 01, 2005, 02:06:26 pm ---
--- Quote from: Silver on December 31, 2004, 10:11:33 am ---Yes I don't believe there are any games that can not be played with a 4-way shifter (and a turbo button)

--- End quote ---

I have just mad ea 360degree wheel + 4-way (Atari) shifter panel and configured it for all 360deg driving games.

I can say that the shifter works fine for all these games (with official MAME) except dirtfoxj, which uses an up/down semi-automatic-style shifter.  For this I just use 2 buttons instead.

For toggle-style shift games, I have mapped all 4 inputs from the shifter to the 'gear shift' input in MAME, with the intention 1st/3rd are low, and 2nd/4th are hi.  The only downside to this is that hi/lo may be in different place each time, depending on the position of the shifter - as long as you bear this in mind it isn't much of a problem.

The shifter works fine for 4-speed games (of course) and also the ChaseHQ style hold-down-an-input-to-stay-in-lo shifter.

One random problem I have found is that my IPAC shift key doesn't work properly with a gear selected (input constantly down), I have to move the stick into neutral - again no biggie.

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I always forget to look for software fixes...  It's just so much more fun to make it into a big complicated hardware hack instead!   ::)

Xiaou2:


 How do you map the buttons to 'change gear'  ?

 Im using mame32 -  but anyways... Im guessing it has something to do with ctrl.ini  - and for some reason seems a bit too painfull to even look into messing with.

  Tia


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