? Is there a way to use accelerated scrolling when using an ultrastik for the joystick and ipac input for buttons

[popcorrin]

I recently swapped out my 8 way joys for ultrastiks and now the accelerated scrolling feature of gameex no longer works.

The buttons are still wired up to the ipac. Would it be possible to add the ability to use the shift_paging button for the keyboard with the joystick?

[Tom Speirs]

Its supposed to do it with joysticks too. Its one of the buttons. I have not tested gamepad support in a long time, but its supposed to still do it, and I think HK or BKenobi would have shouted out if its broken. I believe there using them or the Groovy Game gear equiv.

When your talking about accelarted scrolling, are you talking about paging?

[bkenobi]

Alpha paging works with my GP-WizRX as of 9.87 (released yesterday). BUT, I use XPadder to convert the joystick inputs into key strokes and have joystick inputs turned off in GameEx.

[popcorrin]

  TSpeirs said:

Its supposed to do it with joysticks too. Its one of the buttons. I have not tested gamepad support in a long time, but its supposed to still do it, and I think HK or BKenobi would have shouted out if its broken. I believe there using them or the Groovy Game gear equiv.

When your talking about accelarted scrolling, are you talking about paging?

Yes, I was referring to paging. If the input is strictly joypad, or strictly keypad, it works fine. But with the setup I have, I am mixing the two. Joypad input for the joystick and keyboard input for the buttons. I know I could wire up the buttons to the ultrastik but I would like to avoid the extra work if I can.

Thanks.

[popcorrin]

I guess I'm stuck with either rewiring the buttons or setting up Xpadder like bkenobi did.

Bkenobi, do you disable Xpadder when you play games or do you have it running at all times?

[bkenobi]

When you are using MAME, it's not an issue because it can't use XPadder inputs (assuming you are using a build after v0.117). When I set up other emulators, I either use the joystick inputs or a common set of keyboard inputs. That way I only have to set up one layout. I actually have two set up though. One generic and one blank layout. I always switch to the blank layout when a system doesn't need XPadder, but it's not required.

[scurvy]

you can accelerate the scrolling of titles with a gamepad? i'd like to know how cause it takes about 5 minutes go from top to bottom of a list without a keyboard

[bkenobi]

I used to use GameEx's built in joystick support (well over a year ago). When I did, alpha/paging worked fine. The only reason I use XPadder for my main input is because I have two players using the same gamepad encoder and I wanted both to control the GUI. GameEx can't do that natively, so I convert my button presses to key presses for each player. I haven't tried using the joystick support in a while, so I can't say whether it works right now or not.

[popcorrin]

Thanks for the info bkenobi.

Scurvy, the default gamepad shift button for accelerated scrolling is button 1 on your gamepad.

[bkenobi]

Oh, I was also successful using custom joystick buttons as well FWIW.