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JDGJr:
Just got my star wars yoke working, using 1UpArcade's Sidewinder hack - thanks 1UPArcade!!! I wired it together and plugged into Vista box - Game controller applet allows calibration, and MAME 'works'.

After calibrating in the game controler, the crosshair in the properties window acts as I expect - I can hover at any position I want, and starting to move in any direction from a hover is fluid/linear.

But I'm not satisfied with the fluidity and aim-ability while playing Starwars under MAME v119...
 - Control lags when starting to move from a stop
 - When hovering off-center, the control jumps around - it is not close to steady.

I think that the hardware (pots, etc) are working properly since the display inside the Game controller applet work as I want.

I can't tell how the Analog Control settings in MAME really make a huge difference. I've tried a wide range for most values, and can see a slight change, but can't get a combination that supports enjoyable play. Does anyone with an operational yoke care to list the settings they're using? What suggestions do you have that might help configuring?

Thanks in advance!
John

mrserv0n:
maybe try using .122 of mame, they are always tweaking the controls and such... might have better support?

protokatie:
Dont know much about this, but would like to see you get it resolved in case I want to make a similar setup. On that note, a few things to try (without me knowing anything really about your setup)

1. Make sure that MAME is set to "Sleep when possible"

2. Set the task priority for MAME down a little bit

Sorry, Im not much use here, but I fathomed that MAME may be taking too many clock cycles and the controller driver may not be getting enough... Just a guess from so little info, and the fact I dont have one of these things (yet that is) :D

JDGJr:
I finally got it close to very good.

The key to the slugishness when starting to move was the 'joystick_deadzone' setting in mame.ini. It defaults to .3, and when i changed to .1 all movements became fluid.

Jitteriness when attempting to hold at a random location (like entering initials on the high score display) was improve by overriding the Analog settings inside the game. I changed all numeric values from 30 to 0, and both percentages to 1%. I can now hover to add my initials to the list!!!

now to relearn how to play the game well.

protokatie:
I was going to say something about deadzone, but figured you had dealt with it already...  Good to hear my reply was worthless :P

Regardless, Please post exactly what you  did (from install to tweaks) so that others can benefit from your experience. In the future I may want to add a Yoke, and would like to know about it from beginning to end.

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