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allroy1975:
he's done it again... :) :D ;D
Anyone else who's interested in playing Virtua Tennis through your MAME with your regular Control Panel.....Deon figured out why Virtua Tennis wasn't seeing his PPJoy Virtual Joysticks....
here's his latest e-mail to me:


--- Quote ---It looks like Virtua Tennis ignores any joystick with more than
4 (I think) axes - what this can't be no friggin' joystick!
The PPJoy virtual joysticks by default has 8 axes... See the
problem? [Virtua Tennis also ignores joysticks with less than
4(?) buttons it seems]. Very temperamental little piece of
software!

PPJoy makes provision for changing the number of axes a joystick
reports - but I haven't yet figured out all the snags. Mainly it
makes the Game Controllers control panel applet DrWatson :-( but
everything else seems fine.

I attach a special version of PPortJoy.cpl that has this extra
functionality
enabled. Copy it over the existing one in the System32 directory.

Then:
- Open the PPJoy control panel applet. Select one of the Virtual
joysticks.
- Click on Mapping
- Select "Modify the interface mapping for the IOCTL..." (bottom)
option
  and click on Next.
- Click on Next (Create or Modify the mapping)
- Change the number of Axes to 4 (from the drop-down) and click Next
- Click Next (leave the number of buttons unchanged)
- Click Next (leave Axes mapping unchanged)
- Click Next (leave Button mapping unchanged)
- Click on Finish

From here on the ground is a little shaky (i.e. the part that is not
sorted out 100%)

First, try Virtua Tennis - if you are lucky it should work now. [I.e.
see
the sticks in the config.]

If that does not work try deleting all the Virtual Joysticks from PPJoy
and
re-creating them. Throw in a reboot for good measure :-) Then open the
Game Controllers control panel applet [Which may Dr Watson] and close
it
again. Try Virtua Tennis again.

That should solve it.
--- End quote ---

I put his new CPL file here:
http://allroy.bigdrillcar.com/mame/zips/PPortJoyfix.zip

Thanks again Dion!

Matt

allroy1975:
well, it worked like a champ!
my brother in law came over tonight and we played some vs Virtua Tennis and some Doubles.
Worked Great.  Remapping the keys didn't work too well, so I used the Win I Pac Programmer to set up a profile for VT.
This may sound like a lot of work for 1 game, but it's soooo worth it.
2 Player Virtua Tennis....Next stop....EA SPorts!
Thanks again to everyone who helped make this happen!
especially howard for being so supportive   ;)

Matt

Jakobud:
Wow.  This whole thread turned out very very good :)  Brilliant.

Howard_Casto:
The software is quite brilliant, I'll gladly admit.  The problem is it isn't very useful at all.  You needed it for a game that would only see a joystick and not allow for keyboard input.  That type of problem is super rare (as a matter of fact it's the first time I've ever ehard of it.)  

Quite frankly, that almost never happens.  Most problem games are games in which the game only accepts keyboard input but the layout is hardcoded, and badly at that.  Or the game only accepts mouse clicks to go through the menu, ect.  99% of the games with input issues don't even support the joystick.


Again, brilliant software, too bad it solves a virtually non-existant problem.  

I hate to be negative like this, but since you called me by name.  ;) :P

DAmnb:
Great work, thx definatly goes out to allroy1975, cobelli and Deon!  ;)  ;D

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