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GroovyGameGear GPWiz49 / gamepad question
quarterback:
I have a GPWiz49 that I bought to use with a 49-way joystick. These controllers are "gamepads" rather than "keyboard emulator". I now want to use it for something beyond my 49-way stick.
It has "23 additional inputs, including 5 that are "shiftable", for conventional Joysticks, buttons or similar switch based devices" I can get them to register in my WinXP/control panel/game controllers window, but I don't know how to map those gamepad buttons to work with MAME. IOW, how do I get a gamepad button "22" to register as "arrow up" etc?
Do I need 'key2joy' or something like that? And, if so, what do I need to know about it to make it work? (I've seen the name bantered around but I know nothing about it)
Thanks
Timoe:
not sure if this answers your question but you can press "tab" in mame and set the
player 1 up to game pad button 22
then when switch "GP22" is pressed the character will move up.
mccoy178:
I used the tab function in a game and just mapped the buttons that way. Also, for other emulators, most have esc hard coded, (pinmame especially comes to mind), so instead of using joy2key, I'm adding a keywiz and hooking up the escape and pause buttons that way. I will probably hook up all the pinball buttons through there and the start buttons for poop and giggles.
quarterback:
--- Quote from: timoe on April 06, 2006, 11:54:17 pm ---not sure if this answers your question but you can press "tab" in mame and set the
player 1 up to game pad button 22
then when switch "GP22" is pressed the character will move up.
--- End quote ---
--- Quote from: mccoy178 on April 06, 2006, 11:54:57 pm ---I used the tab function in a game and just mapped the buttons that way.
--- End quote ---
Ahhhhh... sometimes I can't see the forest for the trees. What you're saying is that these numerical "gamepad numbers" will register while I'm in MAME as well.
IOW: no need for some intermediate piece of software, I just need to reconfigure MAME to use the GPWiz49/gamepad button-numbers instead of the keyboard key-strokes. I was over-thinking it.
Thanks y'all!
mccoy178:
I would try to hook up your switches to the lowest numbers available, due to some emulators not registering the high joystick number inputs. Just something I thought you should be aware of.