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| torgo:
Is there any way to make mame or mame analog+ see the entire throw of a pedal (set up as a joystick axis) as one axis? I'm running into this anoying problem where mame is seeing my pedal as two halves of one axis (+ and -). I just want it to work so that when the pedal is not pressed mame sees no input. When the pedal is half pressed mame sees half input, and when the pedal is fully pressed mame sees full input. As it is right now, mame sees nothing for the first half press, starts seeing input half-way through, and of course is at full when the pedal is fully pressed. This sucks! There must be a solution to this crap. I used to use Optimame (back in the day) and never had these issues. It just worked the way you'd think it should. Not this half axis mumbo-jumbo. I understand the half axis thing for wheels and such where you want a clear centerpoint and two directions away from the center, but for a pedal all you want is one direction. |
| grafixmonkey:
What exactly is this pedal you're using? Analog joystick (pots), on the joystick port? analog through USB? Digital axis? Can it be recalibrated, so that the "center position" is really close to one end? If it's analog with pots, which I assume it is, did you build it or hack it, or are you using a manufactured product out of the box? |
| torgo:
--- Quote from: grafixmonkey on July 16, 2003, 02:00:05 am ---What exactly is this pedal you're using? Analog joystick (pots), on the joystick port? analog through USB? Digital axis? Can it be recalibrated, so that the "center position" is really close to one end? If it's analog with pots, which I assume it is, did you build it or hack it, or are you using a manufactured product out of the box? --- End quote --- Essentially it's just a pot wired directly to the joystick port which is detected normally and calibratable from the Game Devices Control Panel. It worked fine in previous versions of MAME (and yes, I realize I could just continue to use an older version) but in the latest versions it has the wierd behavior. I thought about trying to "fake out" the computer and recalibrate it, but there really is no way to do it and get the desired result. If you know a way I'd love to hear it, though I'd prefer a "real" solution. I know I'm not the only one to see this, as I've seen other folks on this board mention the issue in passing, but never address a solution. How do the rest of all y'alls pedals behave? In a similar way? Or do you have the full throw of your pedals active and usable in MAME? If not how do you tolerate only being able to use half of the range of motion? |
| GamingGreg:
I think u_rebelscum's special version of MAME, called Analog+, can help you with that. |
| grafixmonkey:
Does the analog input on the gameport take a voltage between 0 and 5 as its input? My bro says he thinks that's how it works, but I've never checked it out. If so, connect a resistor of the same ohmage as the pot between ground and the pot. I think that would limit the output to between 2.5v and 5v, instead of between 0v and 5v, giving you the "upper half axis" you need. |
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