MAME controllers

Arznei · Post by **Arznei** » Sun Jun 04, 2006 8:37 am

I just bought a usb controller and am trying to use a PS2 controller to play MAME games, how do I do this? For some reason it's detected it but I can't move the scroll box down to view the whole detected settings.. it's not working..

DC906270 · Post by **DC906270** » Sun Jun 04, 2006 8:38 am

have you ticked the "joystick enabled" box in the MAME options?

Arznei · Post by **Arznei** » Sun Jun 04, 2006 8:42 am

"Enable Joystick Input" is greyed out..

EDIT: Ok, it's not grey anymore and I can click it, so what now? I don't understand this axis bullshit.

DC906270 · Post by **DC906270** » Sun Jun 04, 2006 8:44 am

have you re-booted the machine with the joypad plugged in. maybe it wasnt detected at start-up.

DC906270 · Post by **DC906270** » Sun Jun 04, 2006 8:46 am

yeah, looks like it wasnt detected at first

youve got to set the axis only once, its like to configure the d-pad or something. if you dont' do it, you may have problems with controlling properly.

Arznei · Post by **Arznei** » Sun Jun 04, 2006 8:54 am

Are the graphic settings such as RGB the same as RGB on a tv? Because if so.. awesome. ESP Ra.De in RGB is pretty nice.

FatCobra · Post by **FatCobra** » Sun Jun 04, 2006 1:10 pm

I use a Microsoft Sidewinder pad for my emulation purposes. Great for SNES games.

Damocles · Post by **Damocles** » Sun Jun 04, 2006 6:21 pm

Not to be a complete ass....but you know there are Mame forums for this kind of stuff.

...and why the hell is this in general chat? WTF? Did the hardware section die?

Nevermind about that not being a complete ass part. I gave up.

louisg · Post by **louisg** » Mon Jun 05, 2006 5:09 am

Damocles wrote:Not to be a complete ass....but you know there are Mame forums for this kind of stuff.

...and why the hell is this in general chat? WTF? Did the hardware section die?

Nevermind about that not being a complete ass part. I gave up.

Damocles lays down the law!

Steer clear of the Logitech Dual Action btw.

Arznei · Post by **Arznei** » Mon Jun 05, 2006 6:23 am

Damocles wrote:Not to be a complete ass....but you know there are Mame forums for this kind of stuff.

...and why the hell is this in general chat? WTF? Did the hardware section die?

Nevermind about that not being a complete ass part. I gave up.

I'm sorry, I always thought that MAME was actually a program, which was software.

Arznei · Post by **Arznei** » Wed Jun 07, 2006 1:14 pm

Bump.

DC906270 · Post by **DC906270** » Wed Jun 07, 2006 2:28 pm

eh, why bump this nonsense??

Arznei · Post by **Arznei** » Wed Jun 07, 2006 8:59 pm

Because I still want to know if the RGB settings in MAME are reflective of the RGB quality you'd get from a tv. If they are, awesome. If not, oh well.

~Kid Icarus~ · Post by **~Kid Icarus~** » Wed Jun 07, 2006 10:06 pm

No, they're not.

elvis · Post by **elvis** » Thu Jun 08, 2006 2:32 am

Arznei wrote:Because I still want to know if the RGB settings in MAME are reflective of the RGB quality you'd get from a tv. If they are, awesome. If not, oh well.

No, they are overlays to simulate the apature grills on old arcade monitors.

It has nothing to do with actual hardware RGB signals coming from a video card going to a monitor. Your VGA plug does that already.

cigsthecat · Post by **cigsthecat** » Thu Jun 08, 2006 2:47 am

Hey elvis-

When I use a usb adaptor to play with a Saturn pad in MAME, I get lots of gross input lag. Yet I remember you raving about your magic lag free setup.

Is there a way to get rid of this lag and still use the adaptor and MAME32?

Jedah Doma · Post by **Jedah Doma** » Thu Jun 08, 2006 4:13 am

cigsthecat wrote:Hey elvis-

When I use a usb adaptor to play with a Saturn pad in MAME, I get lots of gross input lag. Yet I remember you raving about your magic lag free setup.

Is there a way to get rid of this lag and still use the adaptor and MAME32?

Well, I have that same setup and don't get any lag. I'm not sure what I did differently, it just doesn't lag.

elvis · Post by **elvis** » Thu Jun 08, 2006 5:50 am

cigsthecat wrote:Hey elvis-

When I use a usb adaptor to play with a Saturn pad in MAME, I get lots of gross input lag. Yet I remember you raving about your magic lag free setup.

Is there a way to get rid of this lag and still use the adaptor and MAME32?

What brand of USB adaptor are you using?

The problem sounds like it's your adaptor hardware, and not MAME. Using native USB controllers, there is no lag. The more hardware you put between you fingers and MAME, the more chances you have of running into problems, especially if that hardware is cheap and nasty.

Open the Windows game controller control panel applet and test your device to see whether it's MAME at fault, or your hardware.