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harri:
I have not yet got any timber so building hasn't started. While waiting I was thinking a solution for the problem of showing only the games that can be played with controls in hand. I tried it with GameEx and custom lists, I put multiple installations of Mame on disk and on each I added roms for specific controllers. Then I added them to custom list as additional emulators but GameEx didn't find the roms, only on first one that was Mame on GameEx setup.
What I currently have is multiple installations of GameEx Arcade with multiple installations of Mame. Since I have a TankStick and Yoke I'm testing this with them, I made a simple powershell script that checks if controller is plugged in and if it is then launches the GameEx with Mame configured for games for that controller. The caveat is that when I get several identical boards to connect the buttons of each controller they need to look as different devices to Windows. Then I can put the PC to run the script at boot and it opens the right version of GameEx.
If I get this to work the downside will be that I pretty much decided to not make 2, 3 and 4 player modules but only one module because only benefit of separate modules would have been ability to put the one player module on middle of the screen while playing alone instead of playing on left side of the cabinet. I'll have to think of this since the big module would probably be sturdier because 3 and 4 player modules go over the base.
harri:
My laziness isn't the only reason this project hasn't progressed, effort I would have put towards this has been needed elsewhere. In the meantime I've come to a conclusion that since I have a driving rig with a good wheel and powerful PC it's best to use it for games with 270 wheel and so I did a sort of proof of concept test.
Dead space in middle was about half a turn so that needs quite bit of tuning but I'm sure that will fill my 270 wheel needs.
PL1:
--- Quote from: harri on August 08, 2023, 10:26:45 am ---Dead space in middle was about half a turn so that needs quite bit of tuning but I'm sure that will fill my 270 wheel needs.
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Sounds like you need to adjust deadzone and maybe saturation.
Badmouth's sticky "Emulator/Driving Cab info thread - Beginners start here!" thread in the Driving & Racing sub-forum is your friend.
http://forum.arcadecontrols.com/index.php/topic,105961.0.html
--- Quote from: BadMouth on September 18, 2010, 07:46:50 pm --- For 270° wheels, set the joystick deadzone to .05 in the mame.ini file;
the default .3 means that you have to turn the wheel fairly far before it does anything.
Joystick saturation narrows the operating range of your wheel, i.e. you only have to
turn it halfway before MAME sees it as being turned all the way. Set it to 1.
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Scott
harri:
--- Quote from: PL1 on August 08, 2023, 01:31:27 pm ---Badmouth's sticky "Emulator/Driving Cab info thread - Beginners start here!" thread in the Driving & Racing sub-forum is your friend.
http://forum.arcadecontrols.com/index.php/topic,105961.0.html
Scott
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Thanks, will look at that.
JudgeRob:
Good luck dude, can't wait to see how it pans out. Esp with the modules. I don't know GameEx, but I would think there is a way to make custom lists, like "favs" or something like that. If you use RocketLauncher as a game launcher you might be able to make something custom too, since RL can launch games with an executable line of code.
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