My controlers D-pad wont work with all arcade emus but works fine with all other emus

[drink-diarrhea]

This is a very wird peoblem. All my arcade type emulators like Mame Kawakes Neorage and Nebula dont respond to my Dpad at all. They onley respond to my anolog stick on my controler. This is wird problem because every other type of emulator i have like Project64 Zsnes Gens Gbg and Fce ultra work fine with my Dpad. This problem onley occurs in arcade type emulators this is a very anoying problem because it makes the game very hard to play and i cant even play fighting game at all U_U. Im not stuipid or any thing i do go into controller config in the emulators to ty to remap the controls but still its no use. It simply wont let me configure the controls to work with my Dpad it wont even respond. Im using A Nyko air flo controler with the operating system windows Xp. Is there any fix for this? ide realy apriciate it if i could get some help thanks^_^

[-=VampyR=-]

Nice nickname.Impressive. :confused:

If the joypad is detected under WinXP it should work.
You do have "Enable Joystick Input" checked in MAME right ? :excl:

[hagbard]

If the joypad is detected under WinXP it should work.
You do have "Enable Joystick Input" checked in MAME right ? :excl:
Exactlly, with you joystick already plugged, run MAME32 or any derivate:
"Options" -> "Default Game Options" -> "Controllers" tab -> check "Enable Joystick input", and make sure the "joystick axes" are also checked

About other emulators should be more or less the same, but you might also ask or read the emulators docs/help files

[drink-diarrhea]

That dident work at all my D-pad still isent responding onley my joystick is.:dry:.
Theres gotta be a fix for this. Its probly somthing with arcade emulators like serouisly every other type of emulator works with my D-pad except arcade emulators. could it be possible to fix this by edditing a file in my mame directory or maybe by adding a file that would make mame reconize my controlers D-pad?. thanks in advance

Stuipid controller:fuckyou:

lol ^_^

[pearl jamed]

press tab during game play in mame and it should say input press enter where it says the directional buttuns and enter up for up or down for down with the d-pad. you get what i mean.

[drink-diarrhea]

nope my joypad still dousent respond still onley my analogstick )-:. ooo yea and i already tried that a wile ago just tried it agein becuase you sugested it ^_^.

Isent remaping the controls the same thing as pressing tab anyway? if it is you should have read my first post when i said i already tried remaping the controls;) lol



Just spent a few hours testing every arcade emulator and all the versions of mame and still no sucess. On Every single one of them the emulator it dousent respond to my D-pad even when i tried to remape the controls. The D-pad still dousent work onley my analog stick works sadley U_U.

[pearl jamed]

well my controller has a button that switches from analong to d-pad

[drink-diarrhea]

Well mine dousent i wish it did cause you know >_> it would fix the problem
<;>_<;> thanks for the help any way

[hagbard]

Did you try to check your game pad drivers config?

[drink-diarrhea]

Um naw how do i do that?. Theres a config for drivers???

[Zach]

http://www.nyko.com/Nyko/General/?i=downloads

Rather simple solution really... Check the manufacturers web site.. It says they are keymapping tools also. So if you're lucky you can map the D-pad to emulate keyboard keys, and successfully map the keys in MAME. Assuming the company isn't just trying to be fancy with the name, and you can actually map the keys that way.

[hagbard]

Yes, it should work. You can find the controllers config here:

Start -> Control Panel -> Printers and Other Hardware -> Game Controllers

[drink-diarrhea]

ooo So thats the drivers any way nope that dident work at alll thats aculey to make your controller control your mouse cursor and makes the buttons control the keys on your keyboard. the remaping software is ment for first person shooters and dousent help my problem sadley )-:.

[Zach]

You SHOULD be able to map your D-pad to your keyboard keys. And then you go into your MAME config and use those same keys as the directions for your games.

Thus. when you push the D pad, it triggers the keyboard key that is bound to your game...

Do you see what I am saying?

[drink-diarrhea]

O my gosh dude you are the man!. I cant beleive it works now i have i give you mad props. Thanks you all for the help i realey apreciate it

[mixer152]

Hey I have this exact same problem, but with my Dreamcast pad. The dpad responds in epsxe, gens, znes etc. but not in kawaks and mame.

Can anyone help me please?

-edit-

okay using the driver for my pad coverter i can map the dpad to the up, down, left and right keys, but i cant perform diagonal movements with the dpad (which renders fighting games pointless)

help?

[FatTrucker]

Most arcade fighting games expect 4 switches for movement up, down, left and right. The diagonals are achieved by sending 2 inputs to the game e.g. up + left will give you a left diagonal. If your joypad is sending a dedicated 'diagonal' switch to the game it wont recognise it.

The problem with solid state d-pads like the dreamcast one is that you can only hit one input at a time because you can't press up and right at the same time, which is what the game would expect from a joystick.

You really need to use a pad that has seperate buttons for up, down, left and right with arcade games that require diagonal movement.

The other issue might be that the keymapper won't send more than one input key at a time so although you are pushing up + right the keymapper sends up then right.

If this is the case try using Joy2Key (http://www.electracode.com/4/joy2key/JoyToKey&#37;20English%20Version.htm) which afaik supports simultaneous input and should work with any controller that works with windows,