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Can someone tell me if its Mame / MaLa / Fatfingers Pluggin, or my U360's Issue
mrclean:
OK sorry for a some what of a double post but im still having some trouble Ultimarc joysticks both clearly work in various games / and other emulators both in Mame/ and outside of.. this is why I don't think anything is wrong with them.. however ;
Sometimes when i get to the Warning before the rom loads.. move joystick left / right OK Rom check menu the joystick doesnt work period.
I need to if i get stuck at this screen either exit with ESC, or if i intend to proceed I must tap left and right on my keyboard rather that using the P1 Joy..
Upon loading certain games using the FE MaLa ; I'm experiencing very odd things on the PLAYER 1 Joystick..
player 2 isn't affected, Mario Bro's now doesnt work with player 1 joy, only player 2.. when I try to hit TAB within Mame to map it the joystick for player 1 doesnt respond? the arrow keys on my keyboard currently control player one.. but it won't let me map it to my u360 ?, What leaves me really baffled is the fact that many other games work just fine.. so far galaga, bubble bobble, and now mario bro's ive had the same issue?> Any one that can walk me through this fix it would be greatly apreciated.. previously I had Mamewah, but switched to MaLa mainly because of FatFingers pluggin' which alegidly automatically maps for the specific game.
u_rebelscum:
I don't use MaLa or Fatfinger's pluggin, so take this with a grain of salt. Also I haven't seen your prior post, so I don't know what's been suggested. Anyway...
Try setting the u360 in analog mode for all games all the time, and let mame do the automatic mapping. Mame can do exactly the same thing as u360 is doing, without need for a pluggin. If you didn't change u360's default maps (8way/4way/4way diagonal), you shouldn't notice a difference. If you did change the maps, you can give mame the equivalent; for now just test with mame's defaults, and I'll help you with mame's analog to digital mapping format later.
I am assuming you are using a recent or current mame, of course. ;)
My guess at what's going on with the little info I have: the u360 is restarting after the remap, and mame starts before the u360 recovers. Since mame only looks for new joysticks at startup, it misses joy1. (I wonder if you can add a delay between remapping u360 and starting mame?)
Some questions I have if I'm wrong:
Player1 u360 is joystick 1, and p2 is joy2?
Sometimes joy1 works, sometimes it don't, and a game might flipflop between joy working and not? Or once a game doesn't work once, it continues not working?
Does joy2 act is if it was joy1 in the joy1 not working times? Or is it still joy2?
Something else you also might want to do:
In mame "input (general)" "user Interface", map both joy1 & joy2 as UI_left & UI_right. Then you can wiggle either joy1 or joy2 to get past the ok screen.
kegger:
Have you created a file called "umapper.log"? This should tell you what is going on when the plugin tries to load a map for a game. I would first make this file and see what it says
then go from there. I am using Mala and the same plugin with no issues but I haven't tried those games either but I will give them a shot tomorrow and post the results.
mrclean:
--- Quote from: u_rebelscum on January 29, 2008, 07:16:31 pm ---
Some questions I have if I'm wrong:
Player1 u360 is joystick 1, and p2 is joy2?...
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-joystick 1, and 2 are both different U360's
--- Quote ---Sometimes joy1 works, sometimes it don't,
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Yes its working fine in like 95% of my other games.. except for the ones that ive discovered so far.. bubble bobble, mario bro, galaga
--- Quote ---and a game might flipflop between joy working and not? Or once a game doesn't work once, it continues not working?
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No, certain games are just having this issue.. all the other games are just fine.. so far ive only noticed this problem specifically on bubble bobble, mario bros, and galaga. *When I had Other joysticks installed i left the microswitches underneath my cabinet connected because I didnt want to disconnect anything.. the U360's obviously use USB connection.. this might be the reason why?
--- Quote ---Does joy2 act is if it was joy1 in the joy1 not working times? Or is it still joy2?
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nope thats not an issue.. joystick 2 is always joystick 2
--- Quote ---Something else you also might want to do:
In mame "input (general)" "user Interface", map both joy1 & joy2 as UI_left & UI_right. Then you can wiggle either joy1 or joy2 to get past the ok screen.
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I didnt try this yet, how exactly do I do that? and, even upon if the game actually loads once in game the joystick doesnt have any responce when hitting TAB within mame anyways.. even if loaded with my keyboard left right?
mrclean:
--- Quote from: kegger on January 29, 2008, 11:09:25 pm ---Have you created a file called "umapper.log"? This should tell you what is going on when the plugin tries to load a map for a game. I would first make this file and see what it says
then go from there. I am using Mala and the same plugin with no issues but I haven't tried those games either but I will give them a shot tomorrow and post the results.
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Yes I created a umapper.log file... i actually didnt even read it yet to be honest
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