Happ UGCI Adapter Question

[Tempest]

My MAME cab uses a Happ Controls UGCI Fighting adapter for the joysticks and trackball.  Since I inherited this machine, I have no idea how they set the device up.  I ended up swapping computers out because the one inside was underpowered (and running Windows ME), so now any settings that were on the original machine for this device are lost. 

I've been fiddling around with a test program I found for it, and I *think* I've been able to sucessfully map keys to the joystick inputs.  However when I try to move in a game I find that it moves very slowly, very choppy, and not always in the direction it should.  If I do a quick tap in one direct several times I can kind of get the player to move, but its not very good.  I thought that perhaps I had the key repeat rate and delay set too high so I adjusted those but it didn't do any good.  I know this thing worked in the cabinet before, as I tested it out, so the device is probably still good.  Could it be incompatible with my new joysticks somehow (I put in two new 4/8 way convertable sticks because the ones it originally had were crap)? Or am I just not setting it up right?  I can't seem to find any instructions for it, so I'm kind of winging it.  On an interesting note, if I just use the keys on the keyboard everything moves just fine with no delay or stutter.  It's almost as if thte signal from the sticks is being interrupted somehow and only going through intermittenly.

Can someone please tell me how to set this up or point me to some documents that can help?  I'm really lost on this one.

[AlanS17]

Well not alot of people will have that encoder. A joystick is just a joystick, though. Unless the switches in the joystick are damaged, that's not the problem.

[Tempest]

I've actually figure out what most of the problem is. However I can't get the controller to work in game now.  It works just fine in Mame 32's GUI and in the joystick test, however when I start a game none of the controls work.

[AlanS17]

If it works everywhere except a game, it sounds like a configuration issue.

[Tempest]

Yep thats what it was.  I had the movement set to keyboard keys only and not to joystick inputs.

Now everything works except that I can't seem to assign the three trackball buttons.  MAME doesn't seem to recognize them when I try to use them as inputs.  I can assign them using the special program that came with the UGCI, but then I lose their funcitonality in windows (right now they act as my mouse buttons in windows).  My plan was to make them the player 1 and 2 start buttons, but  I may have to develop a work around for that.

Interestingly this device does have inputs for player 1 and 2 start buttons, but according to the documentation programs have to specifically written to recognize them.  I'm guessing MAME isn't.

[AlanS17]

Do you have mouse compatibility turned on in MAME? You'll need that to get the mouse buttons going.

[Tempest]

That didi it.  Thanks!

[Tempest]

Looks like I spoke too soon.  Now it doesnt seem to want to recognize the third button, which I assume is the middle mouse button.  I swear it did before...