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!