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| mikeveli20:
Hey all, I'm in the process of trying to get my USB steering wheel configured to work with MAME. The wheel I have is a Logitech MOMO Force Feedback racing wheel. I don't really care about the Force Feedback in MAME and I doubt it would work anyways, so the focus is just on getting the wheel, pedals and gear shift to work properly. I have the wheel installed in Windows and it is recognized by Windows and works fine with PC games. However, in MAME it doesn't work at all. I am using California Speed as my test game. For those that are familiar with it, when you first load the game you have to calibrate the wheel by turning it left and right, pressing the pedals, etc. Well when I do this on my wheel, nothing happens. I checked the controls for the game by pressing Tab, and it says that Paddle Analog is set to Joy 1 X Axis, Paddle Analog Dec set to Joy 1 Left, and Paddle Analog Inc set to Joy 1 Right. P1 Buttons 2-5 are set to keyboard buttons Alt, Space, Shift, Z. There is no Button 1 under the options. Excuse my noobness if the solution is painfully obvious. Thanks. |
| Neverending Project:
There is a chance that MAME is seeing your steering wheel as Joy 2, or something different. You can check by pressing Tab in MAME, press enter on Paddle Analog, and then turn your wheel. It will register the correct Joy #. If you don't plug-in and remove your wheel often, you should make this change in the Input All Games settings instead of the Input for This Game setting. Hope this makes sense, I am not at my MAME computer right now. |
| u_rebelscum:
--- Quote from: mikeveli20 on February 20, 2009, 01:05:51 pm ---I checked the controls for the game by pressing Tab, and it says that Paddle Analog is set to Joy 1 X Axis, Paddle Analog Dec set to Joy 1 Left, and Paddle Analog Inc set to Joy 1 Right. P1 Buttons 2-5 are set to keyboard buttons Alt, Space, Shift, Z. There is no Button 1 under the options. --- End quote --- In addition to what Neverending Project said (I'll lay money that your wheel is joy 2 or up), to get true analog control, make sure only the Paddle Analog is set to you wheel's axis. If you set the Paddle Dec and Paddle Inc to left & right, the wheel will act like you're using the keyboard or a dpad. BTW, the reason the game doesn't have a "Button 1" is that the pedal's default map is to the same as button 1's default key & button. Your MOMO has an analog pedal, so you might want to remap mame's pedal so it only looks aat your wheel's pedals, and maybe remap the game's buttons 2-5 to you wheel's buttons 1-4. |
| mikeveli20:
Thanks for the replies, I will give that a try. Another question before I attempt this. This wheel is going to be part of my MAME cab, but it wont be connected all the time. My other USB connections are as follows: Gun1, Gun2, Trackball, UltraStik 360. These things will be connected all the time, but the wheel will only be plugged in when it's in use. I've designed my control panel so that the wheel can be connected with ease. I have a USB extension cable going from the back of the computer to underneath the control panel which the wheel just plugs in to when it's going to be used. So the question is, will the wheel be assigned a different Joy # each time it's plugged in, or am I able to force it to use a certain Joy # each time (or will it do this on it's own since everything else remains plugged in all the time)? Also, u_rebelscum mentioned that I should not set my Paddle Inc and Dec to Joy Right and Left, so what should I set them to instead, or should I just delete whatever is there so it says None? |
| Minwah:
--- Quote from: mikeveli20 on February 20, 2009, 03:15:03 pm ---My other USB connections are as follows: Gun1, Gun2, Trackball, UltraStik 360. These things will be connected all the time, but the wheel will only be plugged in when it's in use. <snip> So the question is, will the wheel be assigned a different Joy # each time it's plugged in, or am I able to force it to use a certain Joy # each time (or will it do this on it's own since everything else remains plugged in all the time)? --- End quote --- In this case you should be fine. Your wheel will probably be JOY2 as your guns & trackball will be mouse devices. On my cab my pedals are incorporated & always plugged in so assigned to Joy 1 & Joy 2 (the interface I use is effectively 2x joysticks). When I plug my yoke in it always appears as Joy 3. --- Quote ---Also, u_rebelscum mentioned that I should not set my Paddle Inc and Dec to Joy Right and Left, so what should I set them to instead, or should I just delete whatever is there so it says None? --- End quote --- Yes, delete them. Same goes for the pedal inc/dec inputs if you have an analog pedal. |
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