Main > Main Forum

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

<< < (2/4) > >>

_Iz-:
what are you using to interface the joysticks to the computer?

Farmboy90:
I use an IPAC2 to interface.  You are right that it might not be after I die that things break.  It does appear to be random.

I am using standed wire for everything.

What I don't understand is that it works fine, then stops working all of a sudden.  Last night I tried to reproduce the problem, so I grabbed my wife and had her be player 1 and me be player 2.  We fired up Double Dragon and after about 20 minutes of playing we got tired and shut it down (it was late).  We played without ANY issue.  This is the first time I have ever seen a two player game not break. 

It is driving me nuts.  I was going to switch to an older mame version (so I grabbed v093) and will try to get someone to help me test again tonight.

I will double check the wiring again but I am not sure why it would work fine then suddenly go bad. 

I suspected the IPAC as well, but buying another to test would take a week and cost another $50 after the overseas shipping....

Oh and swapping joysticks would be a nightmare.  I have artwork and plexi on top of everything and don't want to remove it all.  I could however move the microswitches and handle and just leave the base screwed in.  That should be ok anyway since the base doesn't "do" anything anyway.

Oh, and when it does break the player ALWAYS is stuck moving to the left.  Not sure if that hints at anythin either.

jjd:
Check all of your wires and connections (both on the joystick and IPAC).  If everything looks good, try sticking a new microswitch into the joystick and see if that fixes the problem.

Definitely do those things before spending any money or additional time with the software. 

Hoopz:
Have you tested the Ipac in notepad to see if you are getting the proper letter when you move the joystick?

Does the LED on the Ipac flash multiple times when the pc is booted on?  The number of flashes indicates if there are any issues or not.

_Iz-:
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.



Navigation

[0] Message Index

[#] Next page

[*] Previous page

Go to full version