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Driving controls - one to rule them all?
Minwah:
--- Quote from: Silver on June 14, 2004, 03:34:49 pm ---re gear shifter: I'm sure (2) and (3) (in Minwah's post) can be simply done on a hi/lo shifter - as for (2) the hi/lo buttons are mapped to the shifter position, and in (3) simply mapping the lo to the shifter will work (I think).
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2) Well yes, but hi/lo shifters (usually) only have 1 microswitch, so it means wiring the NO to one input and NC to another. While this would work OK, it means there will always be a keypress being sent (I don't like that idea for some reason). Maybe a switch to turn the shifter on/off would be a solution to prevent that.
3) Yes, that's the easy one :)
As for 1), I don't know whether mapping the same button to NO as NC would work...in theory it would work if there is a gap when switching the gear lever (when switching from NO to NC and vice versa). I don't know in practice whether this would work or not ???
Silver:
Ah yes I had not thought about the constant keypress - this could come back to the ps2 vs usb post, as I think a constant keypress behaves differently on the different inputs(?).
What would be nice is some kind of adaptability on how different controls are dealt with by mame. Problem is what works best would vary from cabinet to cabinet depending on control (obviously).
Could be a case of get it built and then work through the problems later ;-)
Tiger-Heli:
--- Quote from: Silver on June 15, 2004, 08:37:09 am ---Ah yes I had not thought about the constant keypress - this could come back to the ps2 vs usb post, as I think a constant keypress behaves differently on the different inputs(?).
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I know it is handled differently in MAME than it is in Windows. Not sure if PS/2 and USB affects it. (Although to add further confusion, the I-PAC/2 handles it differently depending on interface choice.)
pocketbikez:
a happ 4-way shifter is a good alternative for multi game compatablity. the shifter has a spring that wants to keep the shift lever on the 3rd and 4th gear side of the shifter. so i use 3rd gear as low and 4th gear as high in games like pole position, outrun, buggy challenge, turbo and spyhunter. it feels just like a highlow shifter. as an added plus the shifter can play all the other 4 speed games like nightdriver, superbug, firetruck and montecarlo.
a spyhunter steering wheel used as a 270degree mame wheel has trigger buttons that i like to map as gear shift buttons like an f1 race car. my lap times are faster as compared to taking a hand off the wheel to shift.
Karman:
--- Quote from: Tiger-Heli on June 14, 2004, 04:38:26 pm --->I though pole position was a shifter too, but if its a button-up then a >shifter with a button would cover it.
It's a shifter. MAME set the controls for convenience rather than authenticity. Someone somewhere posted a source code patch to "fix" it.
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Does anyone have the patch to fix this? I have a Pole shifter that I want to make functional.
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