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| Brewser:
OK Fella's I am still having the centering problems with both joysticks, but I found a way out of this. For me the problem is when I push the joystick up and hold for a couple seconds then release. It seems to get stuck one notch above center and then after a couple seconds it will release to center. You can view this in your windows control panel. So what I did is go through windows calibration and when it says to hit next with the joystick in the middle I would push the joystick to the top and hold it and then release. Once I released the joystick I would hit next. You have to do this twice. Now they center perfectly everytime. I couldn't play games like scramble before and after I did this the game works flawlesly, no more letting go of the joystick and have it crash into the top. Once you let go of the joystick it will center and not move the ship around. Now I am very happy. |
| RandyT:
Brewser, Did you purchase the stick from me? Something definitely seems odd with your setup, as this break-in issue should be nowhere near as bad as all that. If this is happening in 8-way DRS mode, something is definitely hanging up somewhere as the dead zone is larger in 8-way than 4-way. Is there anything peculiar about your installation that might be different than others? RandyT |
| Brewser:
Randy, Yes I bought 2 from you about 2 weeks ago. I don't think there is anything different in my setup than anyone else. My player 1 joystick I had to install upsidedown since the connector on the left wouldn't fit in my CP. I use mame to reverse the stick. The player 2 joystick is setup with the connector on the left. Both joysticks have the centering issue when holding the joystick to the top. In this case my player 1 has the issue when holding the joystick down since it is reversed. When you look at the bottom of the stick you will see when releasing from holding the stick to the up position it bounces to almost center then you can see it slow down until it hits dead center. When I run the sticks in Windows control panel you can see the stick almost hit center and pause for a couple seconds then go to dead center. My player 2 stick can get stuck sometimes in the up position and needs to tap the stick for it to center. As I mentioned in the previous post I was able to compensate for the sticks by changing the centering in windows control panel and now they seem to work great in mame. |
| RandyT:
Did you calibrate the sticks before you started seeing these problems? I ask because calibration shouldn't be necessary. Also, the first tier of movement should be showing "center" in the 8-way DRS mode. If your sticks are far enough to be registering in the second tier, then something is definitely wrong with your setup. I just measured .150" of stick displacement before it showed being off center in 8-way DRS mode. Is this how far off you are "sticking"? You might want to take this to email so we can explore other possible problems. RandyT |
| Brewser:
Randy, Let me play around with these a little more. I noticed I was not using the gpwiz software before playing the games. I didn't have the batch file setup properly in Mamewah. I will try these games again without using windows control panel and only gpwiz and get back to you if the problem persists. Thanks for your help on this. |
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