MAMEWorld Forums - Hardware - Re: Request for Right Hand Thumbstick Joy-Mapping Support on Dual Shock Type PC Game Pads

> Thank you for replying so fast.

No...nobody does that, except when they get paid to do it. It's not like I'm sitting around waiting for someone to post so I can reply quickly. I just happened to pass by and see your post.

> I am sorry but I don't understand your instructions. Perhaps we are talking about two
> different things? I used HeadKaze's mapping app to create an ini file called
> "robotron.ini" located in the "ini" directory. It only contains one line, which is
> reproduced below.
>
> joystick_map
> 788888889.4s88888s6.44s888s66.444555666.444555666.444555666.44s222s66.4s22222s6.122222223.
>
> That ini file is supposed to reduce the corner sensitivity of any joysticks that are
> connected while playing robotron. MAME does not apply those sensitivity settings to
> the right thumbstick of JOY1(my gamepad), because I believe that it only sees the
> left thumbstick of JOY1 as a joystick, and it sees the right thumbstick of JOY1 as
> something else[(Z,Zrot) not (x,y)]. I am unclear as to how your instructions will
> change that. Would you be willing to give a bit more detail or an example? Thanks
> again.

From what I understand, it works with the left stick, correct?

Run Robotron, press TAB, look inside "controls, this game" and see what the settings are for the left stick when that .ini file is loaded. If needed, compare the settings when it's not loaded so you can see exactly what changes.
Then make the settings for the right stick (your z-axis) the same, manually. Once you exit the game these changes should now be reflected in robotron.cfg, from where you can copy them to your robotron.ini.

All available physical axis can be adjusted and mapped to a game's joystick(s). It shouldn't matter if it's Z or Y or X.

That said...I have never seen an ini file with numbers like you posted so I have to admit that I'm guessing. But it seems to me it should work..who knows.

S