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Brewser:
Take a look at PowerMame settings for Sinistar. It only shows J1 for GPWiz49Way stick. You can cycle through all the different joystick settings but only for J1.

Tiger-Heli:

--- Quote from: Brewser on March 11, 2006, 10:42:37 am ---Take a look at PowerMame settings for Sinistar. It only shows J1 for GPWiz49Way stick. You can cycle through all the different joystick settings but only for J1.

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This is a question for MikeQ . . .

MikeQ:

--- Quote from: Tiger-Heli on March 11, 2006, 11:06:37 am ---
--- Quote from: Brewser on March 11, 2006, 10:42:37 am ---Take a look at PowerMame settings for Sinistar. It only shows J1 for GPWiz49Way stick. You can cycle through all the different joystick settings but only for J1.

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This is a question for MikeQ . . .

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Sinistar is strange.  I don't know why it does what it does but it won't recognize J2 at all.  It does this with regular MAME as well.  I'm wondering if a game only has 1 analog input then it automatically gets mapped to J1.  If I find some time, (which is unlikely in the near future.  I'm not working on PowerMAME at all for a while)  I'll try to figure out what it is doing.

I just looked at after burner and it does the same thing.  MAME appears to only look for the first joystick it finds.  One way you can control which stick you map the controls to is to edit the games .cfg and only enable the joystick you actually want to use.  Don't enable both.  So if you really want to use J2, disable J1 and sinistar will only find J2.

Also, adding new ports for games I'm not sure about.  I know for sure you would have to modify the game code specifically.  I'm not sure if you exposed new controls though, how you would hook them up to the ROM.  The ROM would have to know to look for them I would think.   I'm just speculating though.

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