Ultimarc U360's just got them.. don't have the software... need the disc!

[mrclean]

I have just gotten the sticks directly from ultimarc no software can someone upload it to me? I think I was sent the wrong disc I got the vga card drivers, and ipac, and jpac stuff but nothing on the disc can I find about the U360's? not to mention it was scuffed / cracked.. but it loaded up but either it was a bad burn or i was sent the wrong disc

[headkaze]

I don't think you need drivers for these do you? They are treated just like a regular analogue joystick AFAIK.

[TheDriver]

I don't think you need drivers for these do you? They are treated just like a regular analogue joystick AFAIK.

Absolutely right, just plug in the USB and windows will see it as "Ultimarc Ultra-Stick"
Mind and enable joysticks in mame.

Regards.

[2600]

I don't think you need drivers for these do you? They are treated just like a regular analogue joystick AFAIK.

He needs a driver to program and rename them, so that they are more then just analog joysticks.
Luckily, the driver is included in the Ultramap program.

http://ultimarc.com/download.html#ultramap

[TheDriver]

Oh right, I just assumed it was for driver's, my bad! 

Regards.

[mrclean]

Installed the software.. still some problems: now i'm having trouble where the X /an Y axis in the test mode are all messed up.. do i need to remount the sticks and turn them or can i do this with the software in calibration? I enabled the joysticks in mame.ini and I still cant get them to work and i cant get them to even scroll through my games list in mamewah

here is part of my mame.ini :

### Input device options ###
mouse                   1
joystick                1
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

[Lilwolf]

Please don't try and get anything working past the test...  Why worry about mame and mamewah when windows can't read them... confuses the issue...

Anyway, have you tried to run the ultramap?  sounds like it might have some corrupt defaults..

[mrclean]

I fixed the issue by physically rotating the board on the ultimarc unit.. Now I'm thinking about ditching mamewah and going with mala.. but boy do I not want to reconfig all this stuff again, but aparently thats they only way that it will "automatically" map my stuff from that front end

[crummy]

I fixed the issue by physically rotating the board on the ultimarc unit.. Now I'm thinking about ditching mamewah and going with mala.. but boy do I not want to reconfig all this stuff again, but aparently thats they only way that it will "automatically" map my stuff from that front end

To be honest, Mala seems to be far easier, yet far more powerful - you'll be glad you did in the end.

[LeedsFan]

I'm gonna be ordering some Ultimarc 360s soon and I have been reading that MaLa is the best frontend for these sticks. But I too have been so used to MameWah and put so much time into making my frontend sceeen. How easy is it to copy that over? I don't wanna lose all the work I put into that menu screen.... it took me bloody ages. 

[mrclean]

I'm gonna be ordering some Ultimarc 360s soon and I have been reading that MaLa is the best frontend for these sticks. But I too have been so used to MameWah and put so much time into making my frontend sceeen. How easy is it to copy that over? I don't wanna lose all the work I put into that menu screen.... it took me bloody ages. 

dude.. im in that same sinking boat right now 

I can't even figure out how to get the video previews to show up in gamecreatures inner circle on his BLUE layout.. and I need to obtain it in a 1280x1024 resolution currently the videos are squares.. yuck!

[mrclean]

Now my test patterns in umapper.exe are all messed up.. If I set the map to a 4-way mode then I go to preview the 8 way.. it will only go in 4 directions.. I can only map the joystick to one map as of now.. rather annoying I don't know what the deal is

[headkaze]

I'm gonna be ordering some Ultimarc 360s soon and I have been reading that MaLa is the best frontend for these sticks. But I too have been so used to MameWah and put so much time into making my frontend sceeen. How easy is it to copy that over? I don't wanna lose all the work I put into that menu screen.... it took me bloody ages. 

There is a plugin for GameEx to auto switch the Ultimarc joysticks. That's all that is necessary to support the U360's in a FE. Not sure how you can say MaLa is the best FE for these sticks based on that fact.

[loadman]

I'm gonna be ordering some Ultimarc 360s soon and I have been reading that MaLa is the best frontend for these sticks. But I too have been so used to MameWah and put so much time into making my frontend sceeen. How easy is it to copy that over? I don't wanna lose all the work I put into that menu screen.... it took me bloody ages. 

There is a plugin for GameEx to auto switch the Ultimarc joysticks. That's all that is necessary to support the U360's in a FE. Not sure how you can say MaLa is the best FE for these sticks based on that fact.

Hey I'm a MaLa freak  !!!  But mr HeadKaze has a point    Give both a whirl   

[headkaze]

Hey I'm a MaLa freak  !!!  But mr HeadKaze has a point    Give both a whirl   

I could understand someone saying "I think MaLa is the best FE", but saying it's the best FE for Ultrastiks IMHO is a little misinformed. Perhaps he was comparing it to MameWah, which I don't think has a plugin or native support for U360's, but I'm sure there would be a command line tool that can switch the sticks based on parameters sent to it anyway.

I guess my point is don't choose a FE based on the joysticks you have That being said I have great respect for the MaLa software and crew and with guys like Loadman on the team you can rely on getting great support and advice 

[2600]

There is a plugin for GameEx to auto switch the Ultimarc joysticks. That's all that is necessary to support the U360's in a FE. Not sure how you can say MaLa is the best FE for these sticks based on that fact.

Don't want to step into your who's FE is best discussion, but to my knowledge at least the MaLa plugin doesn't violate the GPL.

[headkaze]

Don't want to step into your who's FE is best discussion, but to my knowledge at least the MaLa plugin doesn't violate the GPL.

Okay I did some research and figured out what your referring to now. Your Ultrastik library is used in the GameEx plugin written by Oggalz.

I've posted your concerns to the author here.

BTW I thought I made it clear it was not a "who's FE is best" discussion, I hate them myself. I was pointing out that support for Ultrastik is not a unique skill for any FE and it's stupid to say a FE can be the "best to support" it. I'm very careful with my wording as to not attract "my FE is best" arguments 

[LeedsFan]

Just to clarify that didn't know other frontends supported the U360s. I just read that MaLa does and because I just assumed that was the only FE that did. I basically want to be able to select any game and have the FE also load in the correct joystick map for that game. I don't wanna be manually changing it every time I swap games. Is this exactly what MaLa and GameFX do?

Edit:  It's ok... just read more stuff in here which answered my question. 

[mrclean]

I'm still having map issues any help forgetting about what front end to pic, I can only map one thing at a time and my test pattern remains so unless I phyiscally down click on the tab in the umapper.exe from ultimarc software, it seems to only map 1 of the maps instead of all of them ?

[DaveMMR]

Unless I'm mistaken, you have the same question posted in three different threads.  One's dying in the main forum but there are two in the software forum.   It's going to be counterproductive and redundant so please refer to http://forum.arcadecontrols.com/index.php?topic=74248.0 for my reply.