Joystick troubles

[jkalna22]

I have an x-arcade two player arcade joystick and when I put games into my mame folder and start up game ex the joystick will not work. all of the other buttons work but the joystick and I have tried configuring it in the game ex configure folder. Can anyone help me? im running windows XP if that matters.

[Draco1962]

I would recommend first getting MAME up and running with your Tankstick outside of GameEx first. Please refer to the dos here as relates to the Tankstick and MAME.

[nullPointer]

Hi jkalna22 and Welcome to the GameEx forums!

With problems like these there could be any multitude of issues occurring, so we often request a bit more information to assist in troubleshooting. When you have a moment would you mind uploading a copy of your GameEx config, as well as a copy of your log immediately after experiencing the issue (and closing GameEx)

This thread will be beneficial to you in learning how to access that information. Thanks!

[jkalna22]

I have gotten my tank stick to work in mame outside of game ex but when I try to play the game through game ex it does not remember my settings and everything I configured doesn't work anymore through game ex, but it still does when I run mame without game ex. Do I need to reinstall game ex after I get everything configured?

[Draco1962]

I don't think that will be necessary. Please follow the link that nullPointer suggested and let us have a look at your gameex.ini and log.txt files. Thanks!