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Software Support => GroovyMAME => Topic started by: quad on January 09, 2016, 02:17:25 am

Title: Groovymame not honoring Input Device Options
Post by: quad on January 09, 2016, 02:17:25 am

Hi, I need the Groovymame build to support Input Device Options like the normal mame build.  The normal build allows this section at the bottom of the mame.ini file:

#
# INPUT DEVICE OPTIONS
#

global_inputs             0
dual_lightgun             0
joystick_id_1             2
joystick_id_2             3
joystick_id_3             4
joystick_id_4             5
joystick_id_5             6

In my example above, I need mame to recognize the joystick device mappings because windows is assigning 0 and 1 to other non-joystick hardware.  This works on normal mame, but not in groovy. 

Groovy is ignoring this mapping section and just using 0,1,2,3 for the joystick device ids.  I've verified this by starting up a 4 player game and player 3's joystick (default as device 2) is moved by my first player joystick.

Title: Re: Groovymame not honoring Input Device Options
Post by: Calamity on January 09, 2016, 04:41:28 am

Hi quad,

Is there any way to test this without having 4 joysticks, I mean without a specific physical setup?

Title: Re: Groovymame not honoring Input Device Options
Post by: quad on January 09, 2016, 02:33:28 pm

One idea would be to just simply try to map joystick 0 to joystick 1 using this section.  You should be able to swap the two joysticks virtual ids this way.  So, if you have two joysticks where player 1 is device 0 and player 2 is device 1, simply do this in the mame.ini:

joystick_id_1             1
joystick_id_2             0

If you've ported over the trunk mame functionality, this should effectively remap the sticks only to mame.