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Re: Request for Right Hand Thumbstick Joy-Mapping Support on Dual Shock Type PC Game Pads
04/03/13 05:42 AM


> I just recently started experimenting with joystick mapping because I was tired of
> having trouble shooting due north, due south, due east, and due west in run and gun
> games like Robotron and Smash TV when using my dual shock gamepad. I always tend to
> slip into the diagonals. Applying a joystick map that de-emphasizes the diagonal
> directions (Headkaze's Tron preset for example) will help. However, because the right
> hand joystick on the gamepad is recognized by windows as (Z,Zrot) and MAME is looking
> for X and Y axes to apply a joystick map, I can't de-emphasize the diagonal
> directions like I wanted to in the first place. MAME just doesn't recognize that it
> should apply the map to the right hand thumbstick on my gamepad because it doesn't
> see that thumbstick as a joystick.

With that joystick ctrlr file loaded, look inside input this game and manually replicate whatever it does for the left stick to the mapping of the right stick.
You only need to do it once, then save it as dualstickgames.ini so you can load it as ctrlr file for dual stick games.

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* Request for Right Hand Thumbstick Joy-Mapping Support on Dual Shock Type PC Game Pads Tron1001 04/03/13 01:25 AM
. * Re: Request for Right Hand Thumbstick Joy-Mapping Support on Dual Shock Type PC Game Pads Sune  04/03/13 05:42 AM
. * Re: Request for Right Hand Thumbstick Joy-Mapping Support on Dual Shock Type PC Game Pads Tron1001  04/03/13 03:08 PM
. * Re: Request for Right Hand Thumbstick Joy-Mapping Support on Dual Shock Type PC Game Pads Sune  04/03/13 09:13 PM
. * Re: Request for Right Hand Thumbstick Joy-Mapping Support on Dual Shock Type PC Game Pads Tron1001  04/04/13 04:59 PM
. * Re: Request for Right Hand Thumbstick Joy-Mapping Support on Dual Shock Type PC Game Pads Sune  04/04/13 09:16 PM
. * Re: Request for Right Hand Thumbstick Joy-Mapping Support on Dual Shock Type PC Game Pads Tron1001  04/05/13 12:51 AM

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