Mala trouble - not recognizing 'button 12' activation.

[quarterback]

I have a GPWiz49, which is basically a USB gamepad encoder that also has the ability to connect a 49-way joystick.

Beyond the 49-way portion, the rest of the unit has 23 additional inputs which just work as a gamepad.  By hooking up buttons and a normal 'digital' joystick to these inputs, I got everything working fine.

Except, for some reason, I can't go "up" in the Mala gamelist using the joystick.  "Up" corresponds to gamepad button "12".  I know that it's working because both Windows' game controller setup and Mala's own "check" option show button #12 lighting up when I press the joystick up. So I know that the joystick and the GPWiz49 are working.

However, for some reason, I can't get it to scroll up in the Mala game list.     I went into Mala > ‘options’ >‘controllers’ > joystick and set it up so button 12 is "1 Up" but it won't actually move it up the list.   I set up all the other directions as well and they work just fine, just not "up" 

EDIT:  With more testing, I can't get "button 12" to control anything in Mala.  If I set "1 Down" to be controlled by "button 12", then I can't go "1 down".  If I set "Letter Up" to be controlled y "button 12" then I can't go "Letter Up" at all.   I don't understand, since Mala definitely recognizes when "button 12" is being pressed (I can see it light-up under the "check" tab when I push the joystick up) but it doesn't seem to be able to make Mala actually do anything.

Anybody know why this might be?

[loadman]

According to this post by SWINDUS up to 12 are supported by MaLa...

http://forum.arcadecontrols.com/index.php?topic=59267.msg584999#msg584999

... so it is possibly a Bug.?

You might have to find a 'work around' until that is addressed I guess.

[quarterback]

According to this post by SWINDUS up to 12 are supported by MaLa...

http://forum.arcadecontrols.com/index.php?topic=59267.msg584999#msg584999

... so it is possibly a Bug.?

Yeah, that's the weird thing.  Mala does see up to 12 buttons (Windows sees many more) and the 12th button 'lights up' in the Mala "check" window, but just doesn't seem to work for doing anything...

You might have to find a 'work around' until that is addressed I guess.

Yeah, I can rewire some other button to the #12input and wire the "joystick up" to a different one that Mala responds to.  Just seems odd.

Thanks for the reply.

[quarterback]

Well, I rewired my controls and now a button on my cp is connected to "button 12" and my joystick is connected to buttons 8-11.   So now the joystick works in the MaLa front end to control the game list and the button connected to "button 12" works fine in Mame.

[loadman]

Good result I guess 

My life is just one big 'work-around'   

[quarterback]

My life is just one big 'work-around'   

Ain't that the truth!