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Dual Mode Joystick Analog and Digital values on the fly switch any options?
Aberran:
I have learned that around here its best to say everything you intend something to do to get the best advice so lets setup the situation.
Dreamcast/Naomi/Atomiswave and most likely more emulation. I would like to have a single and preferable analog capable joystick serve as both the Digital and Analog joysticks. I would love a way to toggle one on and the other off on the fly. Is this at all possible with what is on the market right now. Or am I going have to set it up in software by redirecting inputs or some sort of similar trick.
Thank you
Aberran
ivwshane:
You can do what you want with the ultimarc u360 sticks. They use a mapping program that will automatically tell the sticks what kind of controller it is, ie analog, 4-way, 8-way, etc.
http://www.ultimarc.com/ultrastik_info.html
Aberran:
Does that not just change the behavior of a stick so if I mapped it to analog and switch a map to digital the emulator would still think analog but only be able to be full analog value instead of the range that an analog stick would have? Maybe I failed again here, but that does not seem to be the solution I am looking for at this time at least not to my eyes. I already know for consoles I must give up on analog being practical. But don't mind one interface for pc one for consoles. Yet it seems like even in PCs there are a lot of give and take. Maybe I ll just have to make 3 or 4 "interfaces in a box"
*Kegger*:
As ivwshane recommended the U360 will do what you want. Without the sticks and software it is hard to understand but when you map to a 4 or 8 way the stick acts just like a digital stick. The mapping software gives you more options for how the stick responds because you can adjust the dead zones. When in analog mode the maps disappear. There is usually no replacement for a consoles original controls but if that option isn't available the u360 do a pretty good job.
Aberran:
I could be mistaking but Andy himself told me in an email that the U360 always sends analog X/Y information to the computer the only way to change that is to send it to an encoder and than it would send keyboard strokes. I can't get PPjoy to do hatswitch values nothing I have seen works for me at least besides rerouting it through glovepie but even than the X/Y value cannot be blocked and will be given to the computer.
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