Sterring wheel not working on a Mamewah/mame/cabinet

[hayabusa_fmw]

Hello guys

It seems i cannot make work my old Thrustmaster t2 Sterring wheel with my mame cabinet  I am using mamewah, & dos mame i think

The thrustmaster connects to the Game port + i have calibrated it fine.

I am using an x arcade aswell but it connects via ps2 so it doesn't really have to interfer with anything....

In mamewah theres a place with Mouse 0 , joy 0  ( I set them to 1 all of them for the heck of it because it was (0 = off  1 = On)
doesn't work either


I go in the game Press Tab = try to configure it Hit any key on the sterring doesn't move....

how can i fix this?

thanks!!!!

[ArcadEd]

Does your MAME cabinet have windows installed?

If the joystick is digital, I'm not sure Dos can recognize it via the Gameport.  I remember back in the day when digital joysticks first came out, there were a lot of problems trying to get them to work with DOS games.

[hayabusa_fmw]

so it would never work, ....?
this sucks tho many of older device were made Game port wise.

i would need a USB one...?.....

[ArcadEd]

Probably your best bet would be to upgrade to windows for the OS and windows mame.

I'm not sure if any steering wheel will work in DOS Mame unless it's a mouse hack.

[u_rebelscum]

ArcadeEd, the T2 wheel is so old apparently was designed for dos (link 1 and link 2), so all is needed are the right drivers and tell dmame what type of driver you have.


And hayabusa_fmw, are you sure you are using dos mame ('dmame.exe' since before 0.53), not windows commandline mame, aka official mame, aka mame, aka "mame.exe"?  I haven't used dmame for a long time, so hopefully someone else can help.  If you have mame.exe and it's not 4 years old, it is not dos mame and more people know how to help you.

[hayabusa_fmw]

I am using The mame Binary + mamewah.....

I really don't know what you mean

I think i have official mame
http://www.mame.net/downmain.html
I got it from there back then.

I got the THRUSTMASTER FORMULA T2
not the one with the blue pannel


I am using Windows XP + theres an incorporated driver T/2  With adapter so i Choosed it + it works i calibrated it


but it's not working in mame when i hit TAB in game to change the steering atributes

like I press the gas pedal doesn't change....
doesn't see it seems like.

[Minwah]

As you got MAME from mame.net I assume you are using Windows Commandline MAME (not Dos MAME).

Setting 'joystick 1' in your \mame\mame.ini is the easiest way.  Alternatively you could use the _device settings...

[hayabusa_fmw]

im not sure what you mean?....


I put Joystick 1   (on/off)    = 1 on   0 = off

(in Mamewah , CTRL) default.ini


(i dont have a mame/mame.ini  remember im using the binary )

still doesn't work....

I don't get it.

[Forces21]

What MinWAH is trying to say to you is that you SHOULD have a mame.ini file within youre MAME directory, NOT the ini file from within MameWAH. If there isn't a MAME.INI then use RUN from the start button and enter the program as being CMD & then press OK.
You are at a command prompt. Now say you have MAME on E drive in a directory called MAME, you would need to type the following where <Enter> is the enter key

E: <Enter>
cd MAME <Enter>
mame -cc <Enter>
exit <Enter>

(Just replace the E: with the drive your MAME directory is on etc.)

You can then use explorer to go to the MAME folder & enit the MAME.INI file that has been created. Within here you need to set Joy = 1.

Then you should be able to configure the game from the TAB screen & should recognise the buttons & steering wheel / pedals.