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Racing games with shifters question
Minwah:
--- Quote from: Silver on December 31, 2004, 10:11:33 am ---Yes I don't believe there are any games that can not be played with a 4-way shifter (and a turbo button)
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I have just mad ea 360degree wheel + 4-way (Atari) shifter panel and configured it for all 360deg driving games.
I can say that the shifter works fine for all these games (with official MAME) except dirtfoxj, which uses an up/down semi-automatic-style shifter. For this I just use 2 buttons instead.
For toggle-style shift games, I have mapped all 4 inputs from the shifter to the 'gear shift' input in MAME, with the intention 1st/3rd are low, and 2nd/4th are hi. The only downside to this is that hi/lo may be in different place each time, depending on the position of the shifter - as long as you bear this in mind it isn't much of a problem.
The shifter works fine for 4-speed games (of course) and also the ChaseHQ style hold-down-an-input-to-stay-in-lo shifter.
One random problem I have found is that my IPAC shift key doesn't work properly with a gear selected (input constantly down), I have to move the stick into neutral - again no biggie.
Hoagie_one:
thats good news. I just need a good shifter then
Hoagie_one:
anyone have any experience with this happ 4 gear shifter?
http://www.happcontrols.com/driving/50849600.htm
Kremmit:
--- Quote from: Minwah on January 01, 2005, 02:06:26 pm ---
--- Quote from: Silver on December 31, 2004, 10:11:33 am ---Yes I don't believe there are any games that can not be played with a 4-way shifter (and a turbo button)
--- End quote ---
I have just mad ea 360degree wheel + 4-way (Atari) shifter panel and configured it for all 360deg driving games.
I can say that the shifter works fine for all these games (with official MAME) except dirtfoxj, which uses an up/down semi-automatic-style shifter. For this I just use 2 buttons instead.
For toggle-style shift games, I have mapped all 4 inputs from the shifter to the 'gear shift' input in MAME, with the intention 1st/3rd are low, and 2nd/4th are hi. The only downside to this is that hi/lo may be in different place each time, depending on the position of the shifter - as long as you bear this in mind it isn't much of a problem.
The shifter works fine for 4-speed games (of course) and also the ChaseHQ style hold-down-an-input-to-stay-in-lo shifter.
One random problem I have found is that my IPAC shift key doesn't work properly with a gear selected (input constantly down), I have to move the stick into neutral - again no biggie.
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I always forget to look for software fixes... It's just so much more fun to make it into a big complicated hardware hack instead! ::)
Xiaou2:
How do you map the buttons to 'change gear' ?
Im using mame32 - but anyways... Im guessing it has something to do with ctrl.ini - and for some reason seems a bit too painfull to even look into messing with.
Tia
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