Joystick or I-pac playing up.

[tumler]

Hey, today I was able to put together my cab and test it but somethings has screwed up and I don't know what.
It turns out when I load advancemenu And I push my joystick up to scroll through the list it goes up until I release it then it goes haywire and goes up, down, up, down continously. Same goes with going right or left.

I don't know whats happened as it's all wired correctly to my i-pac and I was playing it properly before I had it in my cab. (Last time I played it was about a week). Only thing I can think of doing is running the software that came with the ipac again.

Have you guys got any ideas or has it happened to you before?

[chemame]

Hey, today I was able to put together my cab and test it but somethings has screwed up and I don't know what.
It turns out when I load advancemenu And I push my joystick up to scroll through the list it goes up until I release it then it goes haywire and goes up, down, up, down continously. Same goes with going right or left.

I don't know whats happened as it's all wired correctly to my i-pac and I was playing it properly before I had it in my cab. (Last time I played it was about a week). Only thing I can think of doing is running the software that came with the ipac again.

Have you guys got any ideas or has it happened to you before?

This might not be a huge help, but I have seen EXACTLY this behavior out of Advancemenu. Not with an i-pac though. I've never had an i-pac, so can't say on that one.

BUT... of all the crazy things, I was experimenting with using Advancemenu with my ATI Remote Wonder. Everything looked great, except that I could only scroll in one direction, and then it would jump chaotically back & forth, back & forth, precisely as you describe.

Now, it's been a long time, but if I recall properly, by looking at the Advancemenu source code I was able to determine that it was a difference in how Advancemenu expected keypresses versus how the Remote Wonder was sending them. I think the Remote Wonder was filling the keyboard buffer, and the true keyscan codes expected by Advancemenu weren't being triggered, or weren't being triggered properly, or something. In fact, dredging this up in my dingy memory, I think it would trigger the PRESS for Advancemenu's logic, but would never trigger the RELEASE.... so pressing DOWN triggered DOWN ok, but letting up didn't stop it, and then pressing UP sent an UP to fight with the DOWN, and you ended up bouncing.

As I said, not the same hardware as you have, but sounds like an identical issue nonetheless.

Hope it helps somehow. I simply gave up and found another menu. 

Che

[tumler]

Thanks for replying.
But I don't think its advancemenu playing up as in the games if you click to the left, the character will go left but once you let go it goes to the right, same with up and down. But you can cancel it out by clicking the opposite way.

I'll have a go re-applying the software to the i-pac. I just hope I havent screwed it up and lost $70 

[tumler]

OMG lol
Turns out I had put my wire on the wrong terminal of the microswitch. Making the buttons always on until I pressed and broke the connection lolololol
ahahahahahah
No wonder there was delay when I clicked jump in metal slug