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Figured out why the joystick gets "stuck" in mame!!!

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Farmboy90:

--- Quote from: _Iz- on January 17, 2006, 12:18:24 pm ---Make sure you don't have any joysticks installed in the windows control panel that aren't plugged in. Also make sure joystick support is OFF in the mame config.

It's also possible you have a intermittently bad microswitch on joy2left.





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How many joysticks should show up in my case?  Here is my setup:
- 1 analog flight stick via the AKI board connected to 4 port USB hub
- 1 spinner (connected to 4 port USB hub)
- 1 trackball connected to 4 port USB hub
- 3 joysticks (2 8 way and a 4 way) via the IPAC connected to 4 port USB hub.

I am assumming 3 joysticks should show up in windows?

Also about the joystick support in mame config...  This is interesting.  Normally this is set to off right?  You are talking about this section right?
### Input device options ###
mouse                   0
joystick                0
lightgun                0
dual_lightgun           0
offscreen_reload        0
steadykey               0
keyboard_leds           1
led_mode                ps/2
a2d_deadzone            0.300000
# ctrlr                 <NULL> (not set)
paddle_device           keyboard
adstick_device          keyboard
pedal_device            keyboard
dial_device             keyboard
trackball_device        keyboard
lightgun_device         keyboard
digital                 none


Well I could not get my spinner or trackball to work unless I made this change:
dial_device                mouse
trackball_device        mouse

I think I set "mouse    1" as well.  I can't remember now and will have to check when I get home.

However once I did this my joysticks stopped working.  So I had to set "joystick     1" to make those work again.

Everything, in all the games I have played, works fine with this setup.  That doesn't mean it is correct however.   ::)

Lilwolf:
sounds to me like you have the ground going throught the NO of one of the other buttons from player 1.  Liek player 2 button 2 ground is cut if player 1 up is being pressed. 

When I bought my arcade, it had this... no wonder they wanted to sell it...

Farmboy90:

--- Quote from: Lilwolf on January 17, 2006, 02:33:07 pm ---sounds to me like you have the ground going throught the NO of one of the other buttons from player 1.  Liek player 2 button 2 ground is cut if player 1 up is being pressed. 

When I bought my arcade, it had this... no wonder they wanted to sell it...

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Wouldn't this be a problem all the time?

My IPAC does not blink when I turn on the cab.   The light comes on and stays on.

When the problem occurs, I hit ESC and return to Mamewah.  Things work fine once back in mamewah, so the problem is with mame.

Is there a bug in mame?

Is there no one who has v0102 that experiences this problem.  I will try to investigate more with a different build (I download v93 too but haven't had much luck reproducing the problem there.  I need to find some to be player 2....)

Clonedsheep:
I am having a problem with my controller right now and was going to post soon but wanted to troubleshoot. However since this one is started...here we go. My cabinet is used for most of my gaming nowdays. When I am not playing my classics, I hit my FPS's. I have no issues with using mame and joysticks but when I switch to regular pc games and use the common w,a,s,d on the keyboard my controls get stuck and movement will continue in the direction I have been moving too. This only happens after a few minutes into the game. When I disconnect the Ipac2 and use the keyboard from a warm boot everything works fine. So is my encoder going out?

juggle50:
Farmboy,

I posted a reply in your mamewah thread in the software forum.  Maybe your Mame problems and Mamewah problems are related. 

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