Unable to configure analogue axis

cloudten · January 18th, 2003

Hello!

I have read through many, many of the posts here trying to find a solution for my problem. Sorry if this question has been answered before!

I am having great fun using ePSXe 1.52, impressive!

However.... I cant seem to bind anything to the emulators analogue axis. I am able to bind to every other button. The config simly shows 'NONE' in all the 4 boxes. I can highlight them but nothing, keyboard or joypad presses. will change that 'NONE'....
I'm using a Joybox 5 (PS-PC usb converter, 4 pad, non rumble) which works perfectly in every other game on my PC. I have also tried a Thrustmaster Dual Force with the same outcome. Does anyone have a solution or even an idea why this might be happening?

My main hope is to be able to play RC Stunt Copter, as I'm sure everyone knows the analogue controls are a must!!

Cheers,
Col.

Win2k Sp3/DX9, AMD 2000XP, Asus A7V333, 512mb PC2700, Asus ti4200.

**Betamax** · January 18th, 2003

Analogue options can only be configured to an analogue control (ie the x,y,u,v axes, or rudder or throttle controls). You can't assign them to your keyboard, pad buttons etc.

Assuming that your psx pad is a dual shock one I'd check that the analogue controls are working correctly in windows and are of the type listed above.

cloudten · January 18th, 2003

Hi Betamax.

Thanks for the input! I have a dual shock ps1 pad plugged in and it works just great in windows. The analogue sticks are assigned as X & Y axis, Slider and Z Rotate.

The pad works great in PCSX using the Harakiri Pad Plugin 1.4, but unfortunately I cant get RC Stunt copter to run correctly in that Emu

I have tried unistalling dx9 (at great pains, hehe) and rolling back to 8.1 but to no avail.

Does anyone else have the same problem, the 'NONE' in the analogue boxes?

**Betamax** · January 18th, 2003

Ok I've rigged up a little registry file, which will forcably set pad 1 to those axes. I can't guarantee that it will work in games, but it's worth a shot.

cloudten · January 18th, 2003

Thanks! No luck though

That did make the 4 boxes report those values but no control.

I'd been fiddling with those values yesterday (dont worry, I deleted the key once I'd finished and let epsxe rebuild it) as I'd managed to work out that they were the 4 refering to the analogue axis.

If I assign one of the axis to a button (it lets me do this no probs) It puts the numbers 256-259 & 264-267 in the 'keys1' key. Then I tried putting these values into the gamepadaxis key but again no luck.

**Betamax** · January 18th, 2003

The "keys1" key are completely different to the axis key, eg nos 0-255 are for the keyboard, 256-511 are for up to 4 gamepads, whereas the axis only supports 8 AFAIK. Also changing any other no. besides the first one won't do much, because they are for different controllers.

Anyways the only other thing I can suggest is that you try the game configurator program or my delta frontend.

http://www.ngemu.com/forums/showthre...threadid=22053

http://delta.ngemu.com

cloudten · January 19th, 2003

I've solved it!!!

It would seem that ePSXe only likes to have one controller plugged in. My Joybox 5 supports 4 ps pads at once and all are present in device manager even if you dont have any pads plugged in. All I did was disable the 3 other pads in 'Human Interface Devices' and its working sweeeeet

Thanks for all your efforts Betamax, hope this thread helps someone else in the future.

Gismo · January 21st, 2003

Hi,

I've had the same problem w/ the Super Dual Box, which is other than the Super Joybox 4, the same construction but for "only" 2 players and w/ rumble support. Mine problem was that: I couldn't set the analogue & the rumble for the first player pad, while I could succesfully do it for the second player. And now, after having read cloudten's post, I tried to disable the second player pad in the System Panel (in human Interface Devices) and the first player pad works w/ analogue & rumble! (ok, the rumble isn't so good as for the second one, but anyway it works

). It's obviously, IMO, an ePSXe bug. Anyway, I already told it to Calb

.

Thx, bye

cloudten · January 26th, 2003

Hi Gismo.

Glad my posts were of some help to you

I have come across a small problem to that solution tho... The pad works great all day, but after a reset it stops working. I then have to re-enable the other 3 pads and the disable them again to get it to work again. A little weird but a small price to pay to play this great emu with the proper pad!
I hope you're right that its a small ePSXe bug and fingers crossed the developers have time to fix this small annoyance.

Just as an aside... I also bought a Soyo Kiky X-Series PSX/USB converter. This worked fine in ePSXe first time, but... The axis has a huge dead zone. The analogue input starts at about 30%, ie. you move the stick gently from centre but nothing happens until you get to 30%, then it just jumps straight up there. After that it goes smoothly up to 100%. Just a shame that RC Stuntcopter uses the first 30% more than full...
Will I ever get a PSX/USB adapter that is everything for all people?

Heres hoping for a new ePSXe soon

January 18th, 2003	#1 (permalink)
cloudten Registered User Join Date: Jan 2003 Location: Norfolk, UK Posts: 5	Unable to configure analogue axis Hello! I have read through many, many of the posts here trying to find a solution for my problem. Sorry if this question has been answered before! I am having great fun using ePSXe 1.52, impressive! However.... I cant seem to bind anything to the emulators analogue axis. I am able to bind to every other button. The config simly shows 'NONE' in all the 4 boxes. I can highlight them but nothing, keyboard or joypad presses. will change that 'NONE'.... I'm using a Joybox 5 (PS-PC usb converter, 4 pad, non rumble) which works perfectly in every other game on my PC. I have also tried a Thrustmaster Dual Force with the same outcome. Does anyone have a solution or even an idea why this might be happening? My main hope is to be able to play RC Stunt Copter, as I'm sure everyone knows the analogue controls are a must!! Cheers, Col. Win2k Sp3/DX9, AMD 2000XP, Asus A7V333, 512mb PC2700, Asus ti4200.

January 18th, 2003	#2 (permalink)
Betamax Resident Movie Critic Join Date: Apr 2001 Location: Belfast, Northern Ireland Posts: 9,480	Analogue options can only be configured to an analogue control (ie the x,y,u,v axes, or rudder or throttle controls). You can't assign them to your keyboard, pad buttons etc. Assuming that your psx pad is a dual shock one I'd check that the analogue controls are working correctly in windows and are of the type listed above. __________________ Superior marketing of an inferior product will always win over inferior marketing of a superior product.

January 18th, 2003	#6 (permalink)
Betamax Resident Movie Critic Join Date: Apr 2001 Location: Belfast, Northern Ireland Posts: 9,480	The "keys1" key are completely different to the axis key, eg nos 0-255 are for the keyboard, 256-511 are for up to 4 gamepads, whereas the axis only supports 8 AFAIK. Also changing any other no. besides the first one won't do much, because they are for different controllers. Anyways the only other thing I can suggest is that you try the game configurator program or my delta frontend. http://www.ngemu.com/forums/showthre...threadid=22053 http://delta.ngemu.com __________________ Superior marketing of an inferior product will always win over inferior marketing of a superior product.

January 21st, 2003	#8 (permalink)
Gismo A man w/ a lot of dreams Join Date: Nov 2002 Location: now Geneva (CH) / past Lodi (ITA) Posts: 731	Hi, I've had the same problem w/ the Super Dual Box, which is other than the Super Joybox 4, the same construction but for "only" 2 players and w/ rumble support. Mine problem was that: I couldn't set the analogue & the rumble for the first player pad, while I could succesfully do it for the second player. And now, after having read cloudten's post, I tried to disable the second player pad in the System Panel (in human Interface Devices) and the first player pad works w/ analogue & rumble! (ok, the rumble isn't so good as for the second one, but anyway it works ). It's obviously, IMO, an ePSXe bug. Anyway, I already told it to Calb . Thx, bye __________________ < half-december '02: ASUS L2480C (14" TFT / Athlon XP 1600+ / SiS 630/730 / 256MB SDRAM / 20GB HDD / DVD-ROM+CD-RW) > half-december '02: ASUS L3562T (15" TFT / Pentium4 2.0GHz / SiS 650 / 256MB DDR / 40GB HDD / DVD-ROM+CD-RW) > end-march '03: ASUS L3568T (15" TFT / Pentium4 2.4GHz / SiS 650 / 256MB DDR / 40GB HDD / DVD-ROM+CD-RW) > june '03: ASUS M3410C (14" TFT / Intel Centrino Pentium-M 1.3GHz / Intel 855GM / 512MB DDR / 40GB HDD / DVD-ROM+CD-RW) ============================== always... Debian sid/unstable (& sometimes WXP-Pro+SP1+lastDX) / Super Dual Box (2-players PSXtoUSB) / Sony DualShock 2 Ocean blue

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January 18th, 2003	#3 (permalink)
cloudten Registered User Join Date: Jan 2003 Location: Norfolk, UK Posts: 5	Hi Betamax. Thanks for the input! I have a dual shock ps1 pad plugged in and it works just great in windows. The analogue sticks are assigned as X & Y axis, Slider and Z Rotate. The pad works great in PCSX using the Harakiri Pad Plugin 1.4, but unfortunately I cant get RC Stunt copter to run correctly in that Emu I have tried unistalling dx9 (at great pains, hehe) and rolling back to 8.1 but to no avail. Does anyone else have the same problem, the 'NONE' in the analogue boxes?

January 18th, 2003	#5 (permalink)
cloudten Registered User Join Date: Jan 2003 Location: Norfolk, UK Posts: 5	Thanks! No luck though That did make the 4 boxes report those values but no control. I'd been fiddling with those values yesterday (dont worry, I deleted the key once I'd finished and let epsxe rebuild it) as I'd managed to work out that they were the 4 refering to the analogue axis. If I assign one of the axis to a button (it lets me do this no probs) It puts the numbers 256-259 & 264-267 in the 'keys1' key. Then I tried putting these values into the gamepadaxis key but again no luck.

January 19th, 2003	#7 (permalink)
cloudten Registered User Join Date: Jan 2003 Location: Norfolk, UK Posts: 5	I've solved it!!! It would seem that ePSXe only likes to have one controller plugged in. My Joybox 5 supports 4 ps pads at once and all are present in device manager even if you dont have any pads plugged in. All I did was disable the 3 other pads in 'Human Interface Devices' and its working sweeeeet Thanks for all your efforts Betamax, hope this thread helps someone else in the future.

January 26th, 2003	#9 (permalink)
cloudten Registered User Join Date: Jan 2003 Location: Norfolk, UK Posts: 5	Hi Gismo. Glad my posts were of some help to you I have come across a small problem to that solution tho... The pad works great all day, but after a reset it stops working. I then have to re-enable the other 3 pads and the disable them again to get it to work again. A little weird but a small price to pay to play this great emu with the proper pad! I hope you're right that its a small ePSXe bug and fingers crossed the developers have time to fix this small annoyance. Just as an aside... I also bought a Soyo Kiky X-Series PSX/USB converter. This worked fine in ePSXe first time, but... The axis has a huge dead zone. The analogue input starts at about 30%, ie. you move the stick gently from centre but nothing happens until you get to 30%, then it just jumps straight up there. After that it goes smoothly up to 100%. Just a shame that RC Stuntcopter uses the first 30% more than full... Will I ever get a PSX/USB adapter that is everything for all people? Heres hoping for a new ePSXe soon