Chefgon
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I just finished building a Mame cabinet using a Happ 8-way joystick. While that stick works fine for 90's games like Fighters, Shooters, and Beat-em-ups, it tends to cause lots of weird glitches in early 80s games like Pac Man and Donkey Kong.
Is there any way to set up Mame so that it can accurately use an 8-way joystick with 4-way games?
It seems like it's technically doable if you can set it up to only accept one directional input at a time. Ideally it should only accept the first direction it gets, and ignore any other direction input until that original direction is released. I didn't see anything in the settings, but I don't have a lot of experience with Mame so I might be missing something.
This machine is a little single-player table top machine and I intend to build a full size upright cabinet later this year, so if all else fails I could always convert the little one to have a dedicated 4-way hardware joystick for older games, but in the mean time it would be nice to be able to play a wider selection of games without the glitches.
Is there any way to set up Mame so that it can accurately use an 8-way joystick with 4-way games?
It seems like it's technically doable if you can set it up to only accept one directional input at a time. Ideally it should only accept the first direction it gets, and ignore any other direction input until that original direction is released. I didn't see anything in the settings, but I don't have a lot of experience with Mame so I might be missing something.
This machine is a little single-player table top machine and I intend to build a full size upright cabinet later this year, so if all else fails I could always convert the little one to have a dedicated 4-way hardware joystick for older games, but in the mean time it would be nice to be able to play a wider selection of games without the glitches.



