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Author Topic: 9x9 analog joystick map in Mame 0.117u1  (Read 2219 times)

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9x9 analog joystick map in Mame 0.117u1
« on: July 28, 2007, 05:49:27 pm »
interesting...

"Yes, it was shamelessly ripped from the UltraStick programming (I'm a big fan of the UltraStick myself), which was in turn ripped from a mapping concept from MAME Analog+  . . .  The 9x9 provides more flexibility and accuracy in the mapping. You can make your diagonals easier to hit or tweak it in other ways." [Aaron Giles]

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Re: 9x9 analog joystick map in Mame 0.117u1
« Reply #1 on: July 29, 2007, 01:52:35 am »
there's been some discussion of this in a thread in the software forum.

it would appear that you can now leave your u360 in analog mode 100% of the time and have mame itself switch emulation among 4-way, 8-way, q-bert, etc.
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Re: 9x9 analog joystick map in Mame 0.117u1
« Reply #2 on: July 29, 2007, 02:10:16 am »
Yes, this is such a great feature that can be used with any analog stick without any plugins or wrappers running.  Has anyone made a map for Tron yet (ie hard but not impossible to hit diagonals)?

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Re: 9x9 analog joystick map in Mame 0.117u1
« Reply #3 on: July 30, 2007, 12:43:03 am »

it would appear that you can now leave your u360 in analog mode 100% of the time and have mame itself switch emulation among 4-way, 8-way, q-bert, etc.


Does MAME have 100% accuracy in selecting the correct map?  Does it have any mapping controls, say to override a 'default' map?  Unless both of these are true, I don't know if we can discard the u360's mapping completely.

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Re: 9x9 analog joystick map in Mame 0.117u1
« Reply #4 on: July 30, 2007, 01:25:42 am »
I'm assuming you can make your own maps and choose them (or the defaults maps) manually.

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Re: 9x9 analog joystick map in Mame 0.117u1
« Reply #5 on: July 30, 2007, 01:28:47 am »
Yes, mame has most common maps (8way, 4way, 2way, diagonal 4 way) built in, but you can make a custom map if you wish.  Details are in the "docs" folder of mame.