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Main => Main Forum => Topic started by: JLR2000 on September 11, 2002, 04:07:21 pm
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I'm setting up a machine running pure dos, dmame and ADVMenu. I want to use a mouse and an old pc joystick for input. I have the mouse working good, but I'm confused how to get mame to recognize the joystick. It is an old Gravis Gamepad 4 button model. I've plugged it into my soundcard port, and I set ADVMenu to support joysticks and it works in the FE, but when I get to MAME I don't get any response when mapping buttons (using TAB). I've tried running dmame from the command line with options like:
dmame -joygamepadpro centiped
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dmame -joyauto centiped
but have had no luck. Do I need some sort of DOS drivers for the gamepad? The game I'm replacing only has a few inputs, so I'm hoping to avoid buying an interface or a keyboard hack. I think a gamepad hack would be much simpler if I can get the joystick recognized. Thanks for any and all help!!
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I'm setting up a machine running pure dos, dmame and ADVMenu. I want to use a mouse and an old pc joystick for input. I have the mouse working good, but I'm confused how to get mame to recognize the joystick. It is an old Gravis Gamepad 4 button model. I've plugged it into my soundcard port, and I set ADVMenu to support joysticks and it works in the FE, but when I get to MAME I don't get any response when mapping buttons (using TAB). I've tried running dmame from the command line with options like:
dmame -joygamepadpro centiped
-and-
dmame -joyauto centiped
but have had no luck. Do I need some sort of DOS drivers for the gamepad? The game I'm replacing only has a few inputs, so I'm hoping to avoid buying an interface or a keyboard hack. I think a gamepad hack would be much simpler if I can get the joystick recognized. Thanks for any and all help!!
it should be dmame centiped -joy auto (the important thing is the space after -joy then the joystick name )
Not sure if ADVmame is different but fwiw dmame gamename -joy sidewinder works for me in vanilla dos without any gamepad drivers... I DID have to enable my soundcard in DOS though.. in may case load the SB emulation and set blaster commands in my autoexec.bat
Hope that helps... good luck!
rampy
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Thanks! I do have soundcard commands in my Autoexec. Looks like I was just typing the parameters in the wrong order! (DOH ::) ) I am using dos mame, not AdvanceMame. (Just using the AdvMenu DOS mame frontend). Thanks for your help. Can't wait to try it tonite!!
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for your need..
Dmame -4button gamename
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Thanks everyone for your help.....here's what I needed to do:
dmame gamename -joy 4button
also found out I can't edit the mame.cfg file in dos with the "edit" command. I just copied it to a floppy and changed it with notepad on another pc. Eventually, I just wiped out the mame.cfg and reran dmame with all the parameters I wanted:
dmame gamename -soundcard 1 -joy 4button -mouse
and a new mame.cfg was created. One thing to note: the soundcard option somehow was set to "-1" instead of "1". I just edited with notepad and replaced it. Now it's good to go. Thanks again everyone.. ;D