Mame32 - Slikstik controller setup

[toxiciti]

I can't seem to get any help. Slikstik forums are dead so I thought I would get an answer here. I've been tearing my hair out for months trying to get my slikstik to work with ANY front end correctly. I registered GameEX because I thought maybe it would cure my problems. It didn't.

Here is the issue:

I know that I've programed the i-pac correctly. When in WinIpac every button that I push corresponds correctly. The letters are correct too. For example my shift key is in the proper place, My 1up coin button, Pause, etc, etc...

I can't seem to get mame mapped to these buttons for some strange reason. It's almost like it doesn't actually save or something or it doesn't know how to read the .ini file inside my ctlr directory.

I'm running mame32 v1.07. I have slikstik.cfg in the ctrl directory. (I've tried it both ways with a slikstik folder in sided ctrl director and just slikstik.cfg without another sub directory).

Amazingly if I use the mame32 gui interface most of the buttons work fine along with the trackball. If it works in here how come it won't work in GameEx? Doesn't make any sense! In GameEx have both the slikstik and keyboard direct options selected.

I would appreciate any help. I love this front end so much but I can't enjoy it because something is not right in my setup.

Thanks for any ideas you may have.

[Tom Speirs]

I can't seem to get any help. Slikstik forums are dead so I thought I would get an answer here. I've been tearing my hair out for months trying to get my slikstik to work with ANY front end correctly. I registered GameEX because I thought maybe it would cure my problems. It didn't.

Here is the issue:

I know that I've programed the i-pac correctly. When in WinIpac every button that I push corresponds correctly. The letters are correct too. For example my shift key is in the proper place, My 1up coin button, Pause, etc, etc...

I can't seem to get mame mapped to these buttons for some strange reason. It's almost like it doesn't actually save or something or it doesn't know how to read the .ini file inside my ctlr directory.

I'm running mame32 v1.07. I have slikstik.cfg in the ctrl directory. (I've tried it both ways with a slikstik folder in sided ctrl director and just slikstik.cfg without another sub directory).

Amazingly if I use the mame32 gui interface most of the buttons work fine along with the trackball. If it works in here how come it won't work in GameEx? Doesn't make any sense! In GameEx have both the slikstik and keyboard direct options selected.

I would appreciate any help. I love this front end so much but I can't enjoy it because something is not right in my setup.

Thanks for any ideas you may have.

In GameEx advanced configuration, go to advanced MAME settings and add the following (inside the quotes with the leading space) to the the end of the CMD Line options " -ctrlr slikstik"

[toxiciti]

In GameEx advanced configuration, go to advanced MAME settings and add the following (inside the quotes with the leading space) to the the end of the CMD Line options " -ctrlr slikstik"

Hmmm... didn't seem to work. Would not load the game up. Would just start beeping and see black screen. Maybe I did it wrong I will try again but your answer seemed like a common one.

[Tom Speirs]

Hmmm... didn't seem to work. Would not load the game up. Would just start beeping and see black screen. Maybe I did it wrong I will try again but your answer seemed like a common one.

The command line should look like this without the quotes:

"-triplebuffer -nowindow -joy -ctrlr slikstik"

[Tom Speirs]

The command line should look like this without the quotes:

"-triplebuffer -nowindow -joy -ctrlr slikstik"

If its still not working try a fresh install of MAME.

[Tom Speirs]

If its still not working try a fresh install of MAME.

In addition, you should be using the default SlikStick control mappings, as is out the box. If youve remapped them to standard MAME controls, then you should not be specifying GameEx or MAME to use Slikstick settings.

[lingpanda]

In addition, you should be using the default SlikStick control mappings, as is out the box. If youve remapped them to standard MAME controls, then you should not be specifying GameEx or MAME to use Slikstick settings.

It sounds to me as if this it what he did.

[toxiciti]

I feel really stupid. I've never had this issue before until the latest versions of mame. In the command line box that you want me to put that line, mine had the following:

-device_video_output fullscreen -quiet -dir_rom "C:\Emulators\Mame32\roms"

I deleted this and put the line you gave me and I still get the black screen and the repeated beeping.

As for a fresh install of mame.. I have many different versions of mame in my emulator directory. I have a bunch of them because I have been trying a lot of versions of mame and mame32.

Are you saying that I need a mame and a mame32?? I didn't think so but I am out of ideas as to why I can't get this going for me.

I have no idea if I"ve remamped my settings to standard mame settings. All I know is that I have programmed the original default settings for my classic slikstik. Then what I do is take the slikstik.cfg file and put it in the ctrlr directory.

I so much appreciate your help. Its amazing that I fix people's computers and build computers all the time and have no problems but I can't fix my own issue here with this. This has been frustrating me for quite some time.

Here is another wierd thing about the situation. When I power down the computer and load up GameEx before I can use my slikstik controller I have to go back and re-program winipac everytime! Its almost as if it can't save the info on the ipac??? But yet it tells me it saved successfully.

[toxiciti]

Ok, I think I finally got it correct somehow... Buttons and joysticks work now but trackball/spinner are not getting recognized inside mame game. I've hit tab key in mame to try and assign the two mouse inputs but i can't bring up the y mouse, x mouse thing in the analog controls. I can get trackball/spinner to behave properly in mame32 gui, just not in GameEx. I have mouse enabled in input settings is there any place else in GameEx to get mouse inputs recognized?

Even still I have to program winipac everytime i reboot.