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Title: Problem with Mala+Ultrastik (w/Mala Plugin)+NullDC, erratic stick?
Post by: Warborg on November 27, 2007, 01:16:12 am

Ok, I'm having a bit of a strange problem, maybe someone could shed some light...

I'm using Mala 1.04, an Ultrastick w/Mala Ultramap plugin, and setting up NullDC.  Now I have NullDC working through Windows just fine, using the Ultrastik and plays pretty well...  Except unfortunately I can't map the P1 button as start because the joystick plugin accepts ONLY joystick input, but that's another story...

So anyway, launching NullDC through Windows, everything is golden.  I have it set up in Mala, with ESC as an exit key/hook and no probs there.  But when I get into a game, the joystick is responding very erratically.  I drop out of Mala and go into Ultramap and it looks like the stick is now set as a 4-way, even though I have nothing set to do that.  So in Mala I set Pre and Post commands to program the stick as an 8-way just to make sure, and try again and same behavior...  In Ultramap it is again acting like a 4-way until I reprogram it.  So I'm stumped...  I'm not sure why it's freaking the Ultrastik out when launching through Mala, but not when just launching NullDC in WinXP.

Anyone have any ideas or maybe have run into something similar?

Title: Re: Problem with Mala/Ultrastik/NullDC
Post by: Warborg on November 28, 2007, 08:56:42 am

So no one out there has tried this software combination at all?  I'd love to be able to play Soul Calibur on my cab...

Title: Re: Problem with Mala+Ultrastik (w/Mala Plugin)+NullDC, erratic stick?
Post by: Warborg on December 03, 2007, 09:48:29 pm

C'mon, no one out there has tried this or anything similar?

Title: Re: Problem with Mala+Ultrastik (w/Mala Plugin)+NullDC, erratic stick?
Post by: fatfingers on December 04, 2007, 09:39:40 am

Sorry, didn't see this until today.  I'm pretty sure my plugin is the culprit of your problems.  Please stop MaLa, create umapper.log in the MaLa directory, start MaLa, run your program, exit your program, exit MaLa, and then mail me the umapper.log file.  My email is in my profile.

Thanks.

Title: Re: Problem with Mala+Ultrastik (w/Mala Plugin)+NullDC, erratic stick?
Post by: Warborg on December 08, 2007, 11:29:55 pm

Quote from: fatfingers on December 04, 2007, 09:39:40 am

Sorry, didn't see this until today.  I'm pretty sure my plugin is the culprit of your problems.  Please stop MaLa, create umapper.log in the MaLa directory, start MaLa, run your program, exit your program, exit MaLa, and then mail me the umapper.log file.  My email is in my profile.

Thanks.

Ok, well I got the log file (would have sooner, but it's been a LONG hellish week)...  So I decided to look at the log file first, and noticed that for every DC game it was using the Analog map file even though I kept specifying 8way...  So I copied the 8way map files and renamed them after the DC image files, and viola! it works properly...  If you would like, I can still email you the LOG file.

Title: Re: Problem with Mala+Ultrastik (w/Mala Plugin)+NullDC, erratic stick?
Post by: fatfingers on December 11, 2007, 03:43:10 pm

Nope, no need for the logfile if you have figured it out.

Enjoy.