Using a Joystick in MAMEUI

[jvidal]

Hi, everyone!

I was wondering if this was possible, using a joystick to move around in the UI (not in games, that works just fine). The only thing I can do is start a game by pressing one the buttons on my joystick, but I can't -for the life of me- figure out how to move up/down on the list with my joystick.

I've tried playing around with the values here:

 

ui_joy_down    1,1,1,2
ui_joy_end    0,0,0,0
ui_joy_exec    0,0,0,0
ui_joy_history_down    2,0,1,0
ui_joy_history_up    2,0,4,0
ui_joy_home    0,0,0,0
ui_joy_left    1,1,2,1
ui_joy_pgdwn    2,1,2,2
ui_joy_pgup    2,1,2,1
ui_joy_right    1,1,2,2
ui_joy_ss_change    2,0,3,0
ui_joy_start    1,0,1,0
ui_joy_up    1,1,1,1

 

but nothing works, as I really don't know what each number means...

I remember asking this several years ago at mameworld forums, but I didn't get anywhere either...

 

any help would be very appreciated

 

regards!

[Robert]

I don't have a joystick or controller, so the functionality has never been tested. I don't know what the numbers mean either.

But maybe someone else here knows more.

[SecretAgentMan]

Not sure tbh but I still have a .txt file from 2007 in my MAME downloads folder that fixed the UP/DOWN issue which was changed to LEFT/RIGHT but the numbers are the same as what I see in your post.  Perhaps you need to check all your config files to be sure the settings are correct.
 

ui_joy_up 1,1,1,1
ui_joy_down 1,1,1,2
ui_joy_left 1,1,2,1
ui_joy_right 1,1,2,2