my CP (gpwiz and U360s) is becoming the bane of my existence AGAIN

[mrsenatoriii]

Hello friends,

I have been working on a arcade cabinet for the past few months and would have been finished long ago if not for the problem I am having right now. I have made some changes to my approach and yet can still not get my setup to work. Currently I have Groovy Game Gears  GP-Wiz Max 32 USB which I have used, along with the Ultimarcs U360s to build a cp. I am having problems getting it to work with any program I try. It didnt work with MALA so I tried Mamewah. Didnt work there so I figured,  "enough with all this, I need something else" and decided to try  Maximus Arcade (3.0.

And much to my chagrin, it didnt work there either. Here is what happens: I wire up all the p1 buttons to the gp-wiz and then run Maximus and it will not recognize any of the keystrokes. It recognizes the u360s no problem. Further more when I tested it with just one player 1 button, it did recognize it; only when I add a second button (and more) it doesnt work at all. (It does work in Windows control panel though)

I recognize that you may point out that this seems to be a GP-Wiz problem, but since its working in Windows, that seems unlikely.

Thank you for your assistance, as it will save my arcade from getting thrown off the golden gate.

[Games001]

Steps I take to be sure the GP-Wiz boards work for me:

1. Does it work in Windows Control Panel? Are the buttons showing up in the Game Controller Properties, etc?
2. Try using Joy2Key or XPaddle and see if that overrides the FE and helps.
3. Try another FE that is known to detect GP-Wiz boards. (i.e. GameEX, Maximus, Atomic, etc)

Sounds to me like a Joy2Key or other such program might fix the issue.  I had the exact same problem when asking Daphne to see my buttons when I ran it from within GameEX FE.  Joy2Key fixed the problem easily.

[mrsenatoriii]

1. The GP does work in windows control panel which makes the whole thing only that much more annoying.
2. Neither joy2key or xpadder work (they will not recognize any keypress)
3. I am already using maximus.

To throw another big ugly wrench in the whole thing, maximus will recognize a keystroke if I hold down botton 1 and hen press button 2- it will recognize the second button as long as the first is being held down. It doenst matter what 2 buttons i press it will do this.

[Havok]

Sounds like you have the GP Wiz wired wrong. Make sure you have everything wired to NO (normally open), not NC (normally closed)...

[mrsenatoriii]

You know its kinda a mixed blessing because on the one hand:
My cp works now;
It was relatively easy to fix;
the SF Bay is saved from more trash;
and I can stop getting the "when is this thing going to be done" condescending statements

but on the other hand:
I feel like a bit of a moron;
I may have to get a new name on the forums you know... because of the shame.

Regardless of both hands thanks Havok ever so much!

Ill be sure to post pics of it once Ive finished it.

[Havok]

Glad I could help. As far as the pictures go, you don't have to wait; post pictures now - slap them in the project announcements forum.

[mrsenatoriii]

Ok now only 1 of the 360s is being recognized in Maximus. When I try to assign a function to the 2nd 360 it is only seen as #1.

I have tried to use xpadder and the Ultramap with no success.

Can my earlier victory be extended to this I wonder...

[Stub]

Plug them in one at a time again and assign their IDs again

[mrsenatoriii]

Did that and it didnt work. It seems as though maximus only allows 2 usb devices. I even uninstalled the devices and then reinstalled them in the hardware manager.

[Games001]

Hence why I used GameEX over other FEs.. never gave me any issues iwth UBS conns or device notice.  I was under the impression that Maximus allowed more than 2 devices, but it's possible that could be a restriction.  You should see if there is a FAQ or Troubleshoot note for that issue over at Maximus.

[Havok]

See if it works in another FE - If not - there have been some issues with the U360s here and there. The best thing to do is email Andy at Ultimarc (andy@ultimarc.com), I have only heard good things about his support. I believe he has even shipped a replacement board when a similar problem cropped up for another user here...

[mrsenatoriii]

I switched to GameEx and am trying that as we speak. I think that MA, Mala and Mamewah all have the limiting factor that they will not accept 3 devices, at least not that I can tell.

Andy is extremely helpful- he actually has already replaced one of my pcbs due to something stupid I did that Id rather not mention- suffice it to say hes been really helpful.

So far GameEx seems to be working as does mame, now the only issue is setting up all the emulators and hoping that they each individually allow for 3 inputs (Fusion for example does not: In fact if anyone knows offhand of a Sega Emulator that will allow for 3 inputs I would be all ears.

Thanks for all your help, including the Gameex idea- I think im in the home stretch!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[Havok]

Good luck - hope it works out for you. I'm glad we have saved another needless arcade destruction!

 

If you have questions on Gameex, check out their forums - I think you'd get more help there than at BYOAC. I only support my front end of choice, which is of course AtomicFE...