Your mame.ini file

[Boz]

For those who have 360 type joys, USB trackballs, USB spinner, would you mind terribly posting your mame.ini? I'm having some trouble and would like to see yours to help me troubleshoot.

Thanks.

[ahofle]

You may get more input if you describe what problems you are having.

[Boz]

You may get more input if you describe what problems you are having.

At the risk of sounding really noob-ish. After months and months of building, my cab is finally in a position to actually play. I'm setting up the FE (GameEx). I'm using Andy's Ultrastick 360, a Happ TB with USB conversion, Slickstick spinner (USB).

My trouble is getting the right games to use the right controls.

Now, I read a post where it was said that the ONLY way to properly configure use of the controls was to use automatic device selection. Yet, some games don't recognize the joy and some don't recognize the mouse-based controls. I was hoping to avoid the necessity for the eyesore of having a keyboard and mouse to navigate windows and change ini files right in the middle of using the system.

Is this something that everyone does? Edits individual games?


#
# INPUT DEVICE OPTIONS
#
# ctrlr                   <NULL> (not set)
mouse                     0
joystick                  0
lightgun                  0
dual_lightgun             0
offscreen_reload          0
steadykey                 0
a2d_deadzone              0.3
digital                   none

#
# AUTOMATIC DEVICE SELECTION OPTIONS
#
paddle_device             mouse
adstick_device            joystick
pedal_device              keyboard
dial_device               mouse
trackball_device          mouse
lightgun_device           keyboard

[ahofle]

For starters you need to enable joystick and mouse in your MAME.ini (for all games):

mouse                     1
joystick                  1


Then go into MAME and start any game.  Press 'tab' and go to 'Input (General)' and map your player one stick directions and also map the common trackball and dial/spinner settings.  They should then be the defaults for all games.

[Boz]

Thanks for the response ahofle. Actually I found a solution for this problem I was having.

http://forum.arcadecontrols.com/index.php?topic=64103.0