Please Help me with my Joystick problems

[Marky_1979]

Hi guys im currently having problems with my happs joysticks.

They are all wired up into the ipac 2 and although they register when pressed they dont work correctly.

I was testing it out on a variety of games and noticed that if you press left it would walk left on the game then freeze until I release the direction pushed and pressed left again.

It seems that it is only registering it as a single press this applies to all directions on both joysticks. Is there a mame/mamewah option i need to alter or is it a wiring fault?

can someone please help?

many thanks

[Marky_1979]

Anyone? 

[leapinlew]

Hi guys im currently having problems with my happs joysticks.

They are all wired up into the ipac 2 and although they register when pressed they dont work correctly.

I was testing it out on a variety of games and noticed that if you press left it would walk left on the game then freeze until I release the direction pushed and pressed left again.

It seems that it is only registering it as a single press this applies to all directions on both joysticks. Is there a mame/mamewah option i need to alter or is it a wiring fault?

can someone please help?

many thanks

I had a problem similar to this, and I ended up trying it on a different computer and it worked fine. It was a compaq, and I ended up not being able to use it.

Have you tried it with a different computer? If the problem follows you to a different computer, we'll know it's the ipaq, joystick or wiring, but if the problem only exists on one computer we can start looking at the computer.

[Marky_1979]

I only have 1 pc so I hope thats not the problem I will check wiring again to see if something is a miss

[AndyWarne]

The usual cause of this problem is using a PS/2 to USB converter. But this would cause the problem on all buttons and joysticks. If its only happening on the joysticks its more likely to be a wiring problem.

[Turnarcades]

You possibly have bad earths, some kind of touching contacts or quite simply a bad connecting cable or PC port. Either that or you have wired the connector to the 'Normally Closed' connection instead of 'Normally Open' one.

[Marky_1979]

Cheers guys i'll be checking the panel over later and will see if its a loose wire or if something is a miss.

[Neverending Project]

You could also try opening up a text program such as notepad and see if the joystick behaves as it should. If your joystick is mapped to the arrow keys, then make sure you type a bunch of garbage text in Notepad and then place the cursor in the middle. Press and hold the joystick and see if the cursor moves repeatedly or just once. Similarly, pressing a pushbutton should register multiple key presses (unless the pushbutton is mapped to Control, Shift or the Shift function in iPac).

To really determine if there is a wiring problem, you could disconnect all but one switch and try again. If it doesn't happen when only one switch is connected, this would point to a wiring problem and you could continue to reconnect switches one at a time until the problem happens again.

[Marky_1979]

fixed thanks guys I changed to ps/2 cables re did my wiring just in case and it works