U360 Help Needed

[bgmagic]

I did a swap out of my Mag-Stik joystick for the U360 on my bartop (only a 1 joystick setup).  The Mag-Stik was hooked up through an Ipac along with the buttons.  After the swap, I have the U360 hooked up via USB and I also have the U360 wire harness hooked up in output mode with the up,down,left,and right running to the ipac as well to retain keyboard commands.  I have some questions on how this is supposed to be setup in Mala, Mame, and other emulators.

I see that when the joystick is hooked up via USB and wired to the ipac that pressing, lets say the "UP" direction on the stick, activates both the joystick up command as well as the keyboard up command, as sent through the ipac, at the same time.

I'm running Mala, Mame, a bunch of other emulators, pinball, etc.

I have the Mala mapping plugin by FatFingers sending the program codes to the joystick working fine so thats setup properly.

A lot of my emulators don't support joysticks and thats why I have the joystick going to the ipac as well.

Here are my questions:

How should this configuration be setup in Mala? In the Mala settings, If I have the "use joystick" option on, when navigating the menus its acting strange because I believe its sending the command for Joy1up and keyboardup at the same time.  Should I turn off use joystick in Mala?

In Mame, since I want the joystick mapping capabilities for different games, how would I need to have this setup to not send both the joystick and keyboard commands at the same time?  Am I not understanding how this should work?

In other emulators that work with analog controls, for example Project 64 or ePSXe, I guess I would just setup the emulators controls without the harness on so it grabs the joystick analog input only and not the keyboard one as well?

Is there a way to disable the U360 from sending the keyboard commands?

For those of you that have the U360 with the joystick also wired to an Ipac, how do you have this setup?

Thank you all!


    

 

[bgmagic]

After doing a little bit of research it seems that you don't or shouldn't have both the USB and the harness installed to an ipac in output mode. The way they show it on the Ultimarc site it looked like if you were using emulators that didn't support joysticks that you could have a ucg file for passing commands to the ipac.  Doesn't seem to work this way and that the joystick always sends digital presses to the ipac and that cannot be turned off.

I just purchased xPadder so I will see if this does what I need.  It appears that I can create profiles for different joy to keypress commands and that those specific profiles will run when the emulator EXE is run?  I only need to make the joysticks UP-DOWN-LEFT-RIGHT show as keyboard arrows for different programs.

For example, I want to have Mala execute a non-mame emulator and rom, xPadder needs to go "Vpinball.exe" is running so load the Visual Pinball profile and map joystick down to keyboard down (which I have mapped in Vpinball to plunger).  When exiting it should turn off that profile.  Is all this correct?

For now I will disconnect the joystick from the ipac so only the USB is hooked up and windows only sees it as a joystick and try the above method.

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You paid for xpadder?

[bgmagic]

xPadder is no longer free.