GameEx, Mame, & the Ultrastick 360

[In2ishun]

Sorry guys. Normally I'm quite able to find solutions to my problems in a variety of places. However, I find myself (for the last umpteen hours) looking and looking and looking with no results.

I'm having trouble getting Mame (via GameEx) to recognize the appropriate control for the appropriate game. Here's a small section of my mame.ini

#

# INPUT DEVICE OPTIONS

#

# ctrlr <NULL> (not set)

mouse 0

joystick 0

lightgun 0

dual_lightgun 0

offscreen_reload 0

steadykey 0

a2d_deadzone 0.3

digital none

#

# AUTOMATIC DEVICE SELECTION OPTIONS

#

paddle_device keyboard

adstick_device joystick

pedal_device keyboard

dial_device mouse

trackball_device mouse

lightgun_device keyboard

Now, my understanding is that Mame should recognize that the games which require a trackball, will use the mouse and games that require a joystick, will use my joystick. However, some trackball games don't even recognize the trackball. Almost all of the joystick games won't recognize the joystick. I'm aware of the plugin for the Ultrasticks, but the joystick isn't being recognized at all in the games that require it. In addition, I'm not too keen on completely rearranging my file system to suit the plugin.

Shouldn't "adstick_device" essentially set the -joystick switch to 1 and launch the game with joystick support?

Honestly, I'm not sure if this is a GameEx or a Mame issue. I've spent months and months making sawdust and I'm getting frustrated with the FE and my ability to "just play games". If it's one of those RTFM issues. Would you mind pointing me in the right direction. Any assistance would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks 'gents.

[In2ishun]

Fixed my own problem.

Digital joys won't be recognized unless you set mouse to 1. Then, in #AUTOMATIC DEVICE SELECTION OPTIONS, set your mouse-type controls to mouse. In my case it was paddle_device, dial_device, and trackball_device. None of these should interfere with the joystick games and visa versa