Question on Emulaxian/3D Arcade and gamepad

[twitami]

Ok, I can't seem to get this to work. I have a regular USB Gamepad that I play games with. In the Arcade mode, it works fine for looking around. But once in a game, it does nothing. I have tried doing setup from within mame, but it doesnt even recognize button pushes from the pad. Yet in FPS mode it works. I tried the Joystick=0 to 1 thing, no effect.

Thanks,
Brian

[)p(]

Ok, I can't seem to get this to work. I have a regular USB Gamepad that I play games with. In the Arcade mode, it works fine for looking around. But once in a game, it does nothing. I have tried doing setup from within mame, but it doesnt even recognize button pushes from the pad. Yet in FPS mode it works. I tried the Joystick=0 to 1 thing, no effect.

Thanks,
Brian

you have to setup mame for joystick use too.  in you mame folder open mame.ini set the joystick option to 1.


peter

[Howard_Casto]

Actually due to heirarchy changes, unless you want to use the joystick for all games, you don't do it that way anymore.

It's a tad complicated, so I suggest looking at the mame docs.  (Translation:  although I know how it works I have no way of explaining it)

[)p(]

hehe...sorry...it has been a while since I got a newer version of mame...I guess its time to check it out again

When were these changes introduced?

peter

[Howard_Casto]

not sure... i think .79 or something like that... maybe later


it's when they changed the ctrlr format to xml

[Popcorrin]

Howard, do u still have your xml converter?

[Howard_Casto]

of course.... 

i suppose i need to link that to my site permenantly....