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Kaytrim:
I appreciate all the work to automate the maping of the Ultimarc 360 joystick.  Could someone take the same functionality and port it over to the GPWiz-49 from Groovy Game Gear?  Randy has a nice piece of support software that maps the GPWiz-49 in a command line.  I just want it to be automated like what is being done for the U360.  I don't have a GPWiz-49 yet but I do have two 49-way joysticks that I will need interfaces for and ordering at least one soon.

I use GameEx but I am also looking at MaLa, MameWah and AtomicFE.  I would be willing to do some testing for you once I get setup.

Thanks to all you developers,  :cheers:
Kaytrim
fatfingers:

As the author of the U360 plugin for MaLa, I would be willing to take a shot at this since I assume much of the infrastructure would be the same.  I may need some help getting up to speed on the 49-ways however.
Kaytrim:
Thanks FatFingers,

This shouldn't be hard at all.  Randy has a text doc in the zip file that explains how to use the .exe.  I quote the following command lines from that document;

(DRS stands for Digital Restrictor Selection)

Automatic Mode:

Automatic mode was intentionally made to be very simple for integration into other software or in a shortcut as required.  The command line is just a number between 1 and 8 as follows:

GPWIZ49.exe 1
GPWIZ49.exe 2
...and so on.

The numbers indicate the DRS Modes as follows:

1= Raw49
2= Progressive49
3= 8-Way
4= 4-Way
5= Diagonals
6= 2-Way Horizontal
7= 2-Way Vertical
8= 16-Way

Looking at that it is just a matter of knowing the game requirements for the stick and pass the appropriate command to the exe.
fatfingers:

Hi Kaytrim,

Yes, it does look easy enough.  Do you see a need for overriding the mame default for control type?  Say like for Q*Bert that would show as 4-way, but really you might want diagonals?  If so, please propose a method to do that mapping and I will try to implement it.
Kaytrim:
There is a diagonal mapping built in, see option 5 above.  Or maybe I am not understanding you correctly.  How is the q-bert mapping handled for the U360?
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