UltraMap issues - afterburner conflict?

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UltraMap seems to be a bit fragile.  When it scans for stix, all my usb devices seem to get reset several times.   It doesn't always find them.  It may complain about there being none, but still show the crosshairs move when i use the stick.  But lately I get "Run-time error '457': This key is already associated with an element of this collection".  I've uninstalled/re-installed, rebooted, etc.  I've cleaned the registry, wiped all copies of the ini.  The only thing that seems to make it happy is if I unplug my keyboard encoder (afterburner - which shows up as a keyboard and 4 joysticks).  Any ideas?

btw - does mame (circa 106) only support up to joy8?

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btw - does mame (circa 106) only support up to joy8?

Yes, 0.106 supports up to 8 joystick devices.  Each device can have multiple joysticks, but mame calls each device joy#.

It looks like current mame supports more than 8 joysticks (actually, no limit).

Are you planning on having more than 8 joystick devices?

[ids]

Not planning on more than 8, but the afterburner registers as 1 kbd and 4 joys (which I'm not using), add to that 4 real joys (u360).  At the time i noticed this, i had a few others attached (eg. gamepad, flightstik, etc -- currently testing stuff on my main computer, cab is not quite there yet).  Thanks for the info - guess I'll upgrade to latest mame in the interim.

Still curious about the issues with UltraMap - perhaps I should ask Andy.