Programming joystick direction(ultrastiks 360)

[nelson]

Hi everyone this is my first post here .I donated to gamex and the emumovies and am happy with the overall frontend(very slick)

When i run just mameui123 and play defender I can enter the mame config menu to select the custom buttons for the way i play( i like to use joy left and joy right as my thrust control) and it works perfectly,but when I run it under the gamex frontend all I can program is joy up or joy down.I get absolutely no response from the joy left joy right directions.Hence i am a sitting duck for them evile aliens

joysticks are enabled and also the plugin that ships with gamex.I also use an ipac and an opti- pac

Any help would be greatly appreciated

Nels

[Brian Hoffman]

  nelson said:

Hi everyone this is my first post here .I donated to gamex and the emumovies and am happy with the overall frontend(very slick)

When i run just mameui123 and play defender I can enter the mame config menu to select the custom buttons for the way i play( i like to use joy left and joy right as my thrust control) and it works perfectly,but when I run it under the gamex frontend all I can program is joy up or joy down.I get absolutely no response from the joy left joy right directions.Hence i am a sitting duck for them evile aliens

joysticks are enabled and also the plugin that ships with gamex.I also use an ipac and an opti- pac

Any help would be greatly appreciated

Nels

If you program your controls outside gameex... When you load the game via gameex it should remain the same.

Perhaps there is an underlaying issue... I dont understand why it wouldnt reconize left and right.

I also dont understand why you need to keep programming it.

I dont have this issue... Id like more info... Perhaps the gameex log will help

[nelson]

i have to reprogram it because i cam only move up and down when running mame thru gamex(even though mame config says its mapped).If I run it without the gamex frontend then everything is working fine.

I just checked the game controllers and i have both setuo as Utrastik player 1 and player 2 but they have 15 buttons each.

Should i try reinstalling them again amd if so is there a way to remove the registry settings for them

Thanx

NEls

[nelson]

Seems just to be defender and stargate that dont want to play nice i tried rtype leo and i could program it no problem....Thanx for the help anyways

Nels

Heres my log file Brian

log.txt

[Tempest]

  nelson said:

Seems just to be defender and stargate that dont want to play nice i tried rtype leo and i could program it no problem....Thanx for the help anyways

Nels

Heres my log file Brian

I'm probably way off (a habit of mine)

If I understand you correctly, you select Defender from the Mame list in Gameex, and then start the game. Then you then press "tab" to bring up the Mame user interface. When you try to set the controls for left and right, it won't let you. Is that right?

Brian is (almost always) right, Gameex shouldn't have anything to do with that. The only thing I can think of is that for some reason then Ultrastik plugin isn't setting your maps correctly. It sound to me like you have a 2-way vertical map, and that is why Mame won't accept left and right from the joystick.

Now that I've typed that out, that is (probably) exactly what the problem is. Does Defender use a 2-way vertical joystick? I'm betting it does from what you've said, and the plugin is making your U360 a 2-way vertical stick, making it impossible for you to set the controls as you would like. You will have to use a override for Defender, and Stargate, just set it up to use a 4-way map for those two games....

[nelson]

  Tempest said:

I'm probably way off (a habit of mine)

If I understand you correctly, you select Defender from the Mame list in Gameex, and then start the game. Then you then press "tab" to bring up the Mame user interface. When you try to set the controls for left and right, it won't let you. Is that right?

Brian is (almost always) right, Gameex shouldn't have anything to do with that. The only thing I can think of is that for some reason then Ultrastik plugin isn't setting your maps correctly. It sound to me like you have a 2-way vertical map, and that is why Mame won't accept left and right from the joystick.

Now that I've typed that out, that is (probably) exactly what the problem is. Does Defender use a 2-way vertical joystick? I'm betting it does from what you've said, and the plugin is making your U360 a 2-way vertical stick, making it impossible for you to set the controls as you would like. You will have to use a override for Defender, and Stargate, just set it up to use a 4-way map for those two games....

Thanx tempest i checked the MAWS site and indeed it says "vjoy2way" now can i ask how to set the game so it always loads an 8 way map for defender without always having to manually load up the ultramap program? ( im pretty green to this new frontend)

thanks for the help

Nels

[Tempest]

  nelson said:

Thanx tempest i checked the MAWS site and indeed it says "vjoy2way" now can i ask how to set the game so it always loads an 8 way map for defender without always having to manually load up the ultramap program? ( im pretty green to this new frontend)

thanks for the help

Nels

well....my version of Gameex has PluginUltraStik by Oqqalz. I'm a couple of versions behind in Gameex, and Headkaze has been working on a new version, but I assume you have the same plugin as I do.

I cut this from pluginultrastick.ini, located in the gameex\plugins folder...

 

#  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.
#

#
[GameEx]
#debug=true			  # Used for debugging.
Exit=joy4way			# Configuration for joystick(s) on exit of GameEx
GameExit=joy4way		# Configuration for joystick(s) on exit of a game but still within GameEx GUI

[Mame]
default=analog
asteroid=joy2way	# I prefer 2 way joystick rather than buttons
astdelux=joy2way		 # I prefer 2 way joystick rather than buttons
tron=joy4way			 # Tron actually uses an 8-way stick but with a 4-way restrictor
tron2=joy4way		  # Tron actually uses an 8-way stick but with a 4-way restrictor
tron3=joy4way		  # Tron actually uses an 8-way stick but with a 4-way restrictor
tron4=joy4way		  # Tron actually uses an 8-way stick but with a 4-way

Add these entries to the [Mame] list:

defender=joy8way

stargate=joy8way

Save the .ini file, and you should be good to go. You can also do custom maps... There are instructions on how to do this in the pluginultrastik.ini. If you need help, just ask!

[nelson]

thanks tempest ...i just got to try it...works like a charm

later ...gotta go blast some aliens

ps ..great forum