Build Your Own Arcade Controls Forum
Main => Main Forum => Topic started by: quarterback on April 06, 2006, 11:46:34 pm
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I have a GPWiz49 that I bought to use with a 49-way joystick. These controllers are "gamepads" rather than "keyboard emulator". I now want to use it for something beyond my 49-way stick.
It has "23 additional inputs, including 5 that are "shiftable", for conventional Joysticks, buttons or similar switch based devices" I can get them to register in my WinXP/control panel/game controllers window, but I don't know how to map those gamepad buttons to work with MAME. IOW, how do I get a gamepad button "22" to register as "arrow up" etc?
Do I need 'key2joy' or something like that? And, if so, what do I need to know about it to make it work? (I've seen the name bantered around but I know nothing about it)
Thanks
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not sure if this answers your question but you can press "tab" in mame and set the
player 1 up to game pad button 22
then when switch "GP22" is pressed the character will move up.
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I used the tab function in a game and just mapped the buttons that way. Also, for other emulators, most have esc hard coded, (pinmame especially comes to mind), so instead of using joy2key, I'm adding a keywiz and hooking up the escape and pause buttons that way. I will probably hook up all the pinball buttons through there and the start buttons for poop and giggles.
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not sure if this answers your question but you can press "tab" in mame and set the
player 1 up to game pad button 22
then when switch "GP22" is pressed the character will move up.
I used the tab function in a game and just mapped the buttons that way.
Ahhhhh... sometimes I can't see the forest for the trees. What you're saying is that these numerical "gamepad numbers" will register while I'm in MAME as well.
IOW: no need for some intermediate piece of software, I just need to reconfigure MAME to use the GPWiz49/gamepad button-numbers instead of the keyboard key-strokes. I was over-thinking it.
Thanks y'all!
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I would try to hook up your switches to the lowest numbers available, due to some emulators not registering the high joystick number inputs. Just something I thought you should be aware of.
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I would try to hook up your switches to the lowest numbers available, due to some emulators not registering the high joystick number inputs. Just something I thought you should be aware of.
Cool. I'm only running MAME, but that's good to know.
Well, I got it all hooked up an working. Next question though, how do I configure MameWah to work now? It's wants the "1", "2", "esc" and up/down keystrokes are no longer coming out of my CP. I scanned through the docs but couldn't find anything. I know I'm using an old version, is that the problem or is there some easy answer to this?
Thanks
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Edit the 'default.ini' file in the ctrlr subdirectory. Should be pretty self explanatory.
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Edit the 'default.ini' file in the ctrlr subdirectory. Should be pretty self explanatory.
Thanks man. I had read the crtl.document file in the "docs" folder but though the ctrlr subdirectory was only for setting info for individual games or emulators. I didn't realize it was also a place for settings that controlled mamewah itself Sometimes the mamewah docs make me dizzy. :dizzy: and this gamepad stuff is all new to me.
But with a little playing around, I'm all good to go.
Thanks again all
qb
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I hate to ask a question that I'm sure will have an obvious answer, but I'm stuck and can't find anything in search that has been on point.
I'm using PowerMAME with a Mala frontend, but am just now getting around to installing actual joysticks (the HApps 49 ways) for use with that setup. I have my GPWiz49 wired up and it registers in the Windows game controller config utility, but I have not figured out how to make it work in MAME. Once you tab into the controls settings for MAME and select a function to change, should the buttons wired through the GPWiz49 automatically display when pressed (much like a keyboard button would)?
Is there something I have to do enable the use of the GPWIZ49 with PowerMAME?
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Is there something I have to do enable the use of the GPWIZ49 with PowerMAME?
Did you enable joysticks? I know official mame disables them by default.
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Bingo! Every thing is A-OK now. I knew it was going to be something that obvious. Thanks!