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Front End Support => MaLa Frontend => Topic started by: monkey puzzle on March 23, 2012, 03:37:03 pm

Title: Ultrastick plugin doesn't work in new game list
Post by: monkey puzzle on March 23, 2012, 03:37:03 pm

I had everything working with Fatfingers Ultrastick plugin for Mala. Then I decided to create a game list using Romlister to filter out unwanted games.
The U360 mapping does not work in the new game list I created, every game seems to have 8-way mapping. But when I switch back to the Full game list everything works fine. I've tried searching for a solution but could find nothing.  ???

Title: Re: Ultrastick plugin doesn't work in new game list
Post by: Gray_Area on March 24, 2012, 10:43:18 pm

Try un- and re-installing the plug-in.

Title: Re: Ultrastick plugin doesn't work in new game list
Post by: monkey puzzle on March 25, 2012, 03:59:33 pm

I cannot find a way to uninstall the plugin. I have tried just re-installing it, but the problem is still there.

I just want to point out that the plugin doesn't work in the list created by Romlister, but it works fine if I create a new list in Mala Gameslist editor.

Title: Re: Ultrastick plugin doesn't work in new game list
Post by: Gray_Area on March 28, 2012, 02:20:49 pm

When installed, the plug-in creates an un-install exe in the directory. It looks sort of red.

I don't know why a game list would affect the U360, but I don't use RomLister, either. Maybe ask the author of that.

Title: Re: Ultrastick plugin doesn't work in new game list
Post by: NOP on March 31, 2012, 04:25:47 pm

I think you may be bumping into this:
http://forum.arcadecontrols.com/index.php?topic=116655.0 (http://forum.arcadecontrols.com/index.php?topic=116655.0)

I haven't investigated yet, but I think what happened was that one of the latest MAME releases changed the text description from "joy4way" to "4-way Joystick" in every game's data.  Romlister and/or the fatfinger's plugin is keying off the old text string, and don't know what to do with this new data.

I think the 4way is just an example, I would not be surprised if joy8way has also changed, possibly others.

Sooo,, a few different things you can do:

1) use MAME 144 or earlier to build you lists.  You can still certainly use 145 or later to play your games.  Obviously new games in 145 or later that do not exist in 144 would be lost. this may not be a big deal.

2) after creating the 145 mame XML file, open it with a text editor and simply to a global search/replace "4-way Joystick" back to "joy4way"

3) wait for me to fix romlister to handle either method.  Fatfinger's plugin may also have to change to make this work-I'm not sure.

#3 is your least-likely-to-happen-this-weekend fix.

Title: Re: Ultrastick plugin doesn't work in new game list
Post by: monkey puzzle on April 02, 2012, 02:14:41 pm

Aha, I see. Thanks for that.