So, Geezer, you get them pedals yet (and further ponderings to keep the subject in the collective consciousness)


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Posted by Torgo on September 16, 1999 at 02:58:53:

So you get those pedals with pots and microswitches yet? I'm very curious about your plans. How are you gonna support the two pedals (gas and brake). As discussed earlier, the joysticks y-axis currently does nothing. I have been unable to find any games in Mame in which forward on the joystick is throttle and backward is brake (in all driving games I have tried, joystick button 1 is throttle and forward/back does nothing). This setup is undesireable anyway as forward/back on one axis is two controls on one pot (0-128=brake 129-256=throttle.) Since the happ pedals use a separate pot for gas and brake, neither of the two input methods I just mentioned would work with pot style pedals.

The conclusion: Mame must once again "go under the knife" and be modified. I will assert again that I believe the best method for dealing with this is assign joy axis y to gas and axis x to brake. Then either replace the pots that came with the pedals with the pots from an analogue joystick (still wired to the original joystick pcb), or splice in the new pots onto the joystick pcb.

So, are you the man to make the needed Mame modifications, once again? Or do you have some other insideous plan up your sleeve that you are not letting us in on?

The puzzle is almost complete. Almost all control methods have been figured out. Joysticks, trackballs, spinners. Now dual Spinning joysticks and dual Steering wheels (by the way thanks again for that). The only thing that remains is analogue driving pedals and lightguns, and we can leave lightguns for another day.

What's the plan Stan?


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