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Title: question about Mamewah, U360, and UGC files
Post by: Ginsu Victim on April 18, 2008, 05:16:37 pm: I just ordered two U360s to replace my Happ Universals.
I use Mamewah with FastMAME .84
This version of MAME is before the analog mapping was added, so I'm going to have to use UGC maps for every game.

Is there an easy way to, say, generate all of the 4-way.ugc files I need for each 4-way game, and 8-way, etc? Is there a simple batch file or a program I could use?

I can't upgrade MAME because of the PC I'm using in my cabinet (733mhz), and I'm not sure I want to switch FEs (I know a lot of you love MALA, but I love Mamewah). Just trying to figure out the best way to handle this.

Thanks.
Title: Re: question about Mamewah, U360, and UGC files
Post by: fatfingers on April 19, 2008, 07:23:52 am: I don't think you want to generate maps for each game. I think you just want to use the 4-way, 8-way, etc. that come with UltraMap and apply those maps based on the controls specified in controls.ini.

Good luck.
Title: Re: question about Mamewah, U360, and UGC files
Post by: Ginsu Victim on April 19, 2008, 10:54:31 am: But, and correct me if I'm wrong, to use ultramap with mamewah and an older version of MAME, you have to have one for each game title. When the game loads, it loads the UGC with the same title, right? So I would have to make a 4-way, then copy and rename for every game. Make 8-ways, analog, and Q-bert style (at least that one is easy to handle).

Like I said...correct me if I'm wrong. I'm just trying to find an easy solution for the copying and renaming.
Title: Re: question about Mamewah, U360, and UGC files
Post by: fatfingers on April 19, 2008, 07:09:08 pm: Unfortunately, I'm not familiar with Mamewah...
Title: Re: question about Mamewah, U360, and UGC files
Post by: Ginsu Victim on April 19, 2008, 07:23:02 pm: Thanks for trying to help. If I switched to MALA, it wouldn't be a problem anymore. I just don't want to change things after finally getting my cabinet software running good. (Changing out the sticks will create enough issues already)
Title: Re: question about Mamewah, U360, and UGC files
Post by: ldl on April 20, 2008, 08:58:58 am: I am in the same boat as you. Read the thread below.

http://forum.arcadecontrols.com/index.php?topic=79003.0
Title: Re: question about Mamewah, U360, and UGC files
Post by: Ginsu Victim on April 20, 2008, 10:53:44 am: .
Title: Re: question about Mamewah, U360, and UGC files
Post by: ldl on April 20, 2008, 01:04:54 pm: Quote from: GinsuVictim on April 20, 2008, 10:53:44 am
Yeah, I've seen your thread, but it's got nothing to do with my problem. (Only slightly related)

If I understand your post correctly, you basically want to use your U360 with mamewah and have the selection of controller type be selected automatically as done in MALA, GAMEEX, etc. that use plugins. The feedback from Minwah is that this might be possible with Mamewah in the next build to some degree.
If I understand your post correctly?
If not? here is what I found for mame v.101 (UGC files for all games, replace x's). This should give you a good start.
hxxp://theretrocade.com/
Hope this helps, but I would prefer the latter.
Title: Re: question about Mamewah, U360, and UGC files
Post by: Ginsu Victim on April 20, 2008, 02:42:38 pm: I never finished reading your thread, so if Minwah is doing that, I'll wait for the next release :)
Until then, thanks for the link.
Title: Re: question about Mamewah, U360, and UGC files
Post by: Minwah on April 21, 2008, 04:25:35 am: Quote from: GinsuVictim on April 20, 2008, 02:42:38 pm
I never finished reading your thread, so if Minwah is doing that, I'll wait for the next release :)

Yes, I will be needing this feature myself shortly, when I finally finish my analog control panel...
Title: Re: question about Mamewah, U360, and UGC files
Post by: Ginsu Victim on April 21, 2008, 09:11:13 am: Yeah, I saw that. I'm glad it worked out this way.
(I get U360s, love Mamewah and don't want to change, then find out the author of it has U360s and decides to make some changes. WIN-WIN situation!)
Title: Re: question about Mamewah, U360, and UGC files
Post by: Minwah on April 21, 2008, 10:21:49 am: Quote from: GinsuVictim on April 21, 2008, 09:11:13 am
Yeah, I saw that. I'm glad it worked out this way.
(I get U360s, love Mamewah and don't want to change, then find out the author of it has U360s and decides to make some changes. WIN-WIN situation!)

I'm surprised someone hasn't asked for this before...or maybe they have and I missed/forgot it ::)
Title: Re: question about Mamewah, U360, and UGC files
Post by: Ginsu Victim on April 21, 2008, 10:42:52 am: Yeah, I was kinda shocked it took this long, but it works out for me, so cheers!
Title: Re: question about Mamewah, U360, and UGC files
Post by: Minwah on April 21, 2008, 01:23:01 pm: I have added this new function to Mamewah - if you would like a version to test out please let me know :)
Title: Re: question about Mamewah, U360, and UGC files
Post by: Ginsu Victim on April 21, 2008, 01:34:23 pm: I'm still waiting for my U360s to ship. I'm just trying to get ready for them. I'll test it as soon as I get them, though.