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real virtual mouse or mame joystick absolute mode?
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ulao:

--- Quote ---What is that?  A paddle?  Does it have only left/right twist, or up/down too?  (If so, how?)  I'm assuming it's seen as a joystick with once axis?  Is it USB, or is it going through an adapter?
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It is an n64 joystick. and I'm uning a n64 adapter I built to allow n64 to usb. It has 5000 levels negative and positive in the x and y axis. I belive it was made for racing style games and I will admit it works well there.

It allows the x_axis with the dial and underneath it has a y_axis throttle.  All of the buttons on the 64 are on it. this is seen as a HID.

but in short its just a joystick.

I remember back in the 80s when I first plaid arkanoid on the nes. It cam with a dial in the box. This is the same thing just a bit bigger. So the first thing I though of was hmmm I wonder if I can make mame use this like the nes did... This is the only reason I want to do such a thing..



--- Quote ---If the product is still on the market and is USB, I'd try talking to the manufacturer and see if they can make a driver they makes windows see it as an absolute mouse that a fully turned left puts the cursor on the left edge of screen, centered paddle = cursor in center. and full right puts cursor on right edge of screen as we've discussed.
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I dont have that option as it was ment for the 64. This is why I asked if a joystick would work in absolute mode on mame.

I appreciate your feed back but I'm not interested in an alternative game pad, nor changing the joystick it's self. All I want is to find a way to get mame to do what I can do with a joy2mouse app.


--- Quote ---I didn't say that, I said hard to do, and hard to keep calibrated to game.  If you know someone who's good with writing mouse drivers, they might be able to do it pretty easily (if it's native USB); it's beyond my ability, though.
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- Sounds interesting but I was referring to MAME.

"So what I gather is it cant be done?" - In other words there is no way to get mame to treat a joystick in absolute. Or there is no way to get mame to think my joystick is a mouse. or as you responded to.. there are no virtual drivers that show up as a mouse and allow movement via joystick that anyone knows of.
Popcorrin:
U_rebelscum's knowledge of analog inputs and the mame's input system is scary.  :o

A while back I had the same idea ulao had but kind of forgot about it.   
I remember some old laptops used to have a stick on them for the mouse, but I can't remember if the cursor just moved the direction you moved the stick or if the cursor position represented the stick position? 
ulao:
Your thinking of the IBM style mouse IBM Trackpoint  control. Funny you say that I was just thinking about that the other day. It is the opposite of what I'm trying to do. It basically was a joystick.
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