Anybody using GPWIZ49 and Set49mode with latest MAME

[y2k600f4]

Just received (2) GPWIZ49s from GGG (will be using williams49 joysticks) and I am in the process of wiring them up today along with the buttons (still need a trackball !). In the meantime I have been working on my PC that will be dedicated to MAME (currently .115b) and have that installed along with the frontend I selected: MAMEwah. I have hidden most of the windows XP stuff (bootup stuff) and took the conservative route (hide taskbar, hide icons and hide mouse pointer) instead of replacing explorer with the FE. This has gone pretty good for the most part thanks to the BYOACWiki !!

Side note....doing this in parallel to working on the cabinet, designing/building CP, etc etc and it is only been 1 week !

Anyway I have downloaded the GPWIZ49 software from GGG and came across the following site for the set49mode software which allows auto selection of the joystick modes in MAME for the particular game:

http://www.mameworld.net/tigerheli/set49mode/

I downloaded the software from:

http://fe.donkeyfly.com/forum/index.php?topic=168.msg1041#msg1041

Also the latest controls.ini from:

http://fe.donkeyfly.com/controls/controls_dat.php

HOWEVER the  latest controls.ini file is for MAME 0.111...can this be used in version 0.115b ?

Also am I on the right track or totally missing it ? Any comments would greatly be appreciated. Thanks !

[Green Giant]

I am not sure about the latest version of mame, I think I am running .112, but the set49mode works great.

I used mala, but it should be just as easy with mamewah.  All you need to do is setup the set49mode software, I think you just point it to the controls.ini file.  When you start a game it reads it and starts up.  The details on the tigerheli site are great.

And if you want to, somewhere on this forum is a GPWIZ49S.exe that does not show the joystick setting before starting a game.  Normally it shows a popup with 8way or 4 way or whatever.

The controls.ini from set .111 should be fine.  I am not sure what games were added from .111 to .115 since I have not run into anything the set49mode can't handle.  I guess for the games that were added you will have trouble, but since controls.ini .111 is still in use it must not cause any problems.  Otherwise someone would have updated it.

[y2k600f4]

Thanks Green Giant. I located the "silent" version GPWIZ49s.exe that Randy T posted on a previous post. I will attempt setting everything up with the tigerheli site using MAME 0.115b and Mamewah v1.61 later tonight. But First I need to do some wiring of the GPWIZ49s and Williams49.

[y2k600f4]

Updated: Looks like the GPWIz49s are up and running. Finished the custom cabling, installed the GPWiz49 software and set up set49mode for MAME 0.115b....went pretty smoothly. Only thing now is trying to integrate it into my FE (mamewah), if anybody has any tips it would be a great help. Thanks.