MaLa COnfiguration

    Hello, pardon my posting in English but we stupid Americans know nothing else.


    I have just found and installed MaLa and it is absolutely the best front end I've EVER seen! THANK YOU for your work!


    I do have one question.


    I have a home made control panel that uses a GP-Wiz to interface the buttons into Windows. The GP-Wiz supports 28 buttons but the Joystick support for the MaLa interface only supports 12 buttons (as seen in the drop down lists)


    Is there any way I can use button numbers above 12?


    Thank you in advance!


    Tim

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    Hello, pardon my posting in English but we stupid Americans know nothing else.


    This made me chuckle :D.


    If loadman is correct and it doesn't work you could always try Joy2Key. The program emulates defined keyboard keys when you press a joystick button. You could try to configure MaLa to use a keyboard then.

    Joy2Key is a great idea. I had forgotten about that program.


    One other idea that popped into my head is a MaLa plug-in. (I'm a developer.) I have not yet looked at the plug-in architecture yet to see if it would even be possible to hook the input side of things.


    Any ideas if this is possible?

    Keep us posted on what you end up doing. I've also got a GPWiz wired up to a control set with 2 joysticks & 16 buttons (8 per person). Everything works fine as long as I'm in the MaLa front end but as soon as I launch a game, none of my controller works.


    I can tab over and launch the exact same game with MAME32 and it works fine so I know it's not the hardware. If it were, I wouldn't be able to scroll through & select a game in MaLa; why would it suddenly stop working when I launch a game?

    I actually wound up just using Joy2Key. My initial attempt at using it did not work because I had only created a MaLa configuration. Once I created a MAME configuration with nothing mapped for the joystick keys, it all began to work.


    Hopefully you can get this to work for you too.