Anyone having trouble with hotrod joystick?

[Alpha17X]

I've been out of the hobby for a bit over a year, but I'm back into it now.

However it's been so long that I've forgotten a few things. I've got a Hanaho Hotrod Joystick I use for MAME (was using MAME32, now I've got 'MAMEUI' which I think is the same people they just renamed it for whatever reason.  I've got the hotrod config file, strange thing is that it won't recognize input from the player 1 joystick while in games.  player 2 works fine and that's what I've been playing as to get around it.

But, there appears to be no reason for the the first player joystick to not be working. I opened up a notepad and moved it around and it typed out 2468 in various patterns signifying that it was indeed working, just not in mame. so I checked the controller config file, and it had all the inputs mapped correctly, yet it doesn't work in mame.

Anyone else having that or a similar problem where the first player joystick corresponds to 2,4,6,and 8? for it's directions?


edit: after scratching my head and finding no rhym or reason to this problem I restarted my pc and now it works. I'm not sure why it happened but its fixed now.

[u_rebelscum]

Glad you got it working, as the advice I was pretty sure was the solution sounds like it won't have worked.  However, I'll touch a minor point.

...was using MAME32, now I've got 'MAMEUI' which I think is the same people they just renamed it for whatever reason.

Yup, mame32's current name is mameUI, with two binaries: mameUI32 & mameUI64, as in mameUI 32 bit and mameUI 64 bit, respectively.  Mame3232 and Mame3264 would be pretty weird names, don't you think?  Not only that, but official vanilla mame had been 32 bit even when it was still dos based, and even more so when it changed to windows based way back in 2001 (even though still from command line).  Add that vanilla mame also has a 64 bit binary, named vmame64.  Vanilla mame couldn't have a higher number in it's name, now could it?   IOW, Mame32 had an improper name for over half a dozen years, and it was about time it changed its name to one told the difference from vanilla mame: mameUI has its own full UI front end, and vanilla mame doesn't.

Welcome back!