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Brewser:
I was wondering if there is a way to map the second GPWiz49 way joystick to be used for single player games in PowerMAME?
Actually 2 questions:
1. Is there a way to map the second 49 way stick to be used by another person to play single player games in PowerMAME such as QBert & Packman so both people can use a seperate stick?
2. Is there a way to map the second 49 way stick in PowerMAME to be used for a single player game such as Sinistar? I would like to use my second stick for a few games since it is more towards the middle of my cab.
Thanks for the help.

screaming:
That's close to something that's been requested before - having 1p/alt games use 2 sticks. MikeQ, what do you think is the feasability on that feature for PowerMAME?

Tiger-Heli:

--- Quote from: Brewser on March 09, 2006, 01:34:16 pm ---I was wondering if there is a way to map the second GPWiz49 way joystick to be used for single player games in PowerMAME?
Actually 2 questions:
1. Is there a way to map the second 49 way stick to be used by another person to play single player games in PowerMAME such as QBert & Packman so both people can use a seperate stick?

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Gets asked a lot.

Can be done now by mapping UP to both sticks, but then P2 can mess up P1's game . . .

Could be done on games that support cocktail mode if there were a way to intentionally disable screen flipping.

Otherwise, I think it would need the LSE (or in-game event) engine to tell it whose turn it was.

--- Quote ---2. Is there a way to map the second 49 way stick in PowerMAME to be used for a single player game such as Sinistar? I would like to use my second stick for a few games since it is more towards the middle of my cab.
Thanks for the help.

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Ummmn,

Start Sinistar.
Tab - Input this game.
Map Up to Joy2 Up, Down to Joy 2 Down, Left to Joy2Left, Right to Joy2Right
Escape

Play Sinistar with second 49-way stick

Figured out what I am missing - You might need to disable the DRS switching or override it for Sinistar only.  Presume you can do this in the sinistar.ini file.  MikeQ ??

Brewser:
Sinistar only shows J1 for joysticks, you can't change it for J2. I guess I was hoping you could do something cool like run 2 joysticks on single player games with PowerMame. Maybe this would be a good suggestion with a future release.
I know people have been asking for this in previous posts but with the new PowerMame project maybe this can finally be done. Let's hope.

Tiger-Heli:

--- Quote from: Brewser on March 10, 2006, 06:10:52 pm ---Sinistar only shows J1 for joysticks, you can't change it for J2.

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That doesn't sound right to me.  With most MAME versions, you should be able to configure Player 1 to use any gamepad (which is what we are really talking about) as long as the device is connected when MAME starts.

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