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Main => Software Forum => Topic started by: ErikRuud on April 14, 2003, 01:45:31 pm
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I have moved my MAME system to a different PC and upgraded to .66
I was testing several games to make sure everything was configured properly. I started up Crazy Climber 2, and the controls were not configured properly. I hit tab to get to the config menu, and I noticed that the selection arrows kept moving up. It was like the Up Arrow key was stuck.
I did checking and confirmed that it was only happening in MAME, and not in any othe app on my PC, so I know it is not wiring or an IPAXC issue.
Next I tried the MAME .58 and everything is fine.
I went back to .66 and the problem is still there. I have also discoveed that I am having the same problem with left arrow.
Example: in Missile Command, the cursor moves to the upper left corner as soon as the game starts.
So far this only happens in MAME .66. I did not try .65 or .67 because I did not have them handy this weekend.
I am running the windows version on a 233 mhz Pentium MMX pc under Win98.
Has anyone else run in to this? I tried to look on the MAME Testers furom, but I couldn't find any mention of it there.
I will test with .65 and .67 tonight.
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That happens to me sometimes, but I'm using sidewider pads. I noticed that if you scroll through the mame config list to fast , or if you just hold a key down too long, it just keeps going. In order to stop it, I just press that same key that was sticking a couple times and it seems to stop it. Don't know why is does it, but it almost like if you hold a keys down too long, it make the key stick. Hmmm
Does this happen to you without even pressing a key in the config menu? Now that I think about it, I have had some games that will just act weird, for no reason at all, and I end up have to just playing the clone if there is one.
I'll try mine out and see if I experience the same thing!
Missle command and crazy climber 2 right, or is there more?
Steve
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It happens all the time, In many games. I have not found one yet that it does not happen in.
It happens before I hit any key in the config menu. It is also happening outside of the config menu (Missile Command example). If I hit another key say down arrow, the game accepts it, but then continues to do the up arrows.
I have tried rebooting, re-extracting, running from command line, running from Game Launcher, disabling all background tasks first, disconnecting the keyboard, disconnecting IPAC, disconnecting sidewinder joystick. Nothing has made a difference. It happens only in .66, not in any other application that I have tried.
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Weird, I had no problems with 0.66. I have seen this happen if a gameport joystick is connected and out of calibration.
BTW, I'd bet 0.67 won't work on your machine unless you compile your own based on the K6 thread below. (I have a Pentium 200 MMX).
(Just saw you mentioned disconnecting the sidewinder joystick, but it's not plug and play. Try going through Windows control panel - gaming controls, and removing it there, or going through the calibration routines.)
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Have you tried using Advanced mame .66? Just checked and it looks like advanced mame.67 was just released.
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I have not tried Advanced MAME at all because I was running under dos until last week.
I'll double check the control panel for the SideWinder. It did install as plug and play.
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I have not tried Advanced MAME at all because I was running under dos until last week.
I'll double check the control panel for the SideWinder. It did install as plug and play.
Ah, USB sidewinder, not gameport. My bad!!!
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My Bad. I should have been more specific. It is actually a "Sidewinder 3D Pro Joystick" and it is not USB.
I hooked it up for analog games like TailGunner.
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OK, here is the story so far.
.67 does not work on my machine as expected.
I tried .65 and .63 and still had the problem. I tried .63 dos and the problem did not occur.
I then uninstalled a bunch of stuff that I do not need to have on my arcade PC, including Quicken 2000, McAfee Virus Scan, McAfee firewall, SBC DialUp, MS Sidewinder, a bunch of stuff left over from the ATI All In Wonder 128 Pro(now in the E-Machine), and a few other things.
The problem has gone away!! I don't know which one was the culprit, but it is working.
I will have to try re-installing the Sidewinder and see if it still OK.
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My bet would be McAfee VirusScan. I had weird problems with later versions of it and MAME previously.
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The Virus scan is one of my prime suspects. All of the stuff I mentioned involved some sort of background process. I am better off without them taking up memory any way.
Now I just need to figure out why the artwork for some of the games does not want to work.
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I had this problem after my friend installed directpadpro to play ddr. Once I uninstalled the dpadpro drivers I never had the problem. Guess something conflicting there.
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SirPoonga, Which problem are you referring to? Repeating Keys or Artwork?
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OK, I got it figured out!
I can make the problem occur at will.
I tried re-installing the MS Sidewinder drivers, and the problem came back. I thought about it for a while, and then I checked my mame setting. I had Joystick 0 in my mame.ini, I switched it to 1 and the problem went away! If I switch it back to 0 the problem comes back.
It is odd that the Sidewinder works even when joystick is set to 0.