Disabling MAME Dial and Re-Assigning?!?!

[xd3l]

This should be really simple, but alas, it only seems to work under mame-libretro, where as advmame and mame4all keep the dials assigned to joypad direction no matter how many times you re-assign the buttons.
How do I resolve this? Mame-libretro plays some of the dial games, but not alland I’d really like to see this work, but apparently two of the cores still have some bugs.

I just noticed that when ever I leave mame-libretro, that I have to re-assing the buttons each and every time.
The other two mame emulators do not have this problem.

How to fix?

[trumpet]

I have worked out how to fix it in advmame.

You need to ssh into the RetroPie. Edit /opt/retropie/configs/mame-advmame/advmame-0.94.0.rc (or advmame-1.4.rc).

Find the following lines:
input_map[p1_dialx] auto
input_map[p1_dialy] auto

And replace with:
input_map[p1_dialx] joystick[0,1,0]
input_map[p1_dialy] joystick[0,1,1]

Then find:
input_map[p2_dialx] auto
input_map[p2_dialy] auto

And replace with:
input_map[p2_dialx] joystick[1,1,0]
input_map[p2_dialy] joystick[1,1,1]

That should get rid of the spin. Then you should assign keys to the dial in the game, and probably adjust the Analog Controls, particularly the sensitivity.

[Author]

Posts