Oggalz's Plugin Ultrastik

[Tempest]

Oggalz's plugin ultrastik says that it "Supports external UltraMap (.um) files." Does anyone know how to do this? Or, Maybe how to Edit his default maps?

My cursor drifts up in mouse mode. If I use Ultramap to edit the map for "mouse" (setting the center to "sticky"), I can solve the problem, but it appears that he is not getting his maps from Ultramap, so this does not really help.

Any Ideas? Did the Q*bert problem ever get solved?

Thanks!

[Tempest]

BTW - Headkaze,

Do you remember me having the problem of the CPWizard not displaying when I press "pause"?

I believe that this (was) is the problem, the joystick is "stuck" in the up position, and blocking key commands.

[Tempest]

I got tired of you guys not helping me, and figured this one out myself. I finally found this:

# If you want to change the joystick map for a particular rom, just make an

# entry with the name of the rom, without file extension, (), [], or {} and

# with a value equal to the joystick map you want to use. Any joystick map

# value that end in ".um" is assumed to be an external UltraMap file and it

# must reside within the GameEx's PLUGINS directory for it to be loaded.

It was in the read me file for the plugin ultrastick!

Now, is somebody gonna tell me if he ever got the 4way diagonal problem fixed, or am I going to have to fire up Q*bert and find out for myself?

Edit:

It looks like oqqalz never updated the file but I found this:

Indeed the Mame devs changed qberts inputs in 118 so as to only allow a single directional input in the default map.

By creating an ultramap with the diagonals mapped to ordinals (essentially a copy of the 4-way diagonal but replacing the upper right with UP the lower right with RIGHT, Lower Left with DOWN and upper left with LEFT) I was able to program and play the qbert games correctly. Hopefully this saves any time and hopefully is an easy addition to the plug-in.

I was going to give credit to whoever wrote this, but now I can't remember (CRS)

To be honest, I read this before, but didn't know what it meant. I thought it would be complicated , but it wasn't. So if anybody needs help let me know.

Thanks for listening!