Yes, that old chestnut. Its come up several times, and every time people don't seem that sure about what works with what. So I thought a thread for people to document any successes or failures they have had would be very useful.
To get the ball rolling, I received my order from Console Plus at the weekend of the PC version of the Magicbox and the GC to PC Joybox 13. Both of these worked fine with my two sticks, the Magicbox working for all the buttons on my official DC stick, and the Joybox (with a little recalibration) doing all the buttons on my GC Soul Calibur II stick.
While I didn't need to do any installing of drivers on Windows XP at all, there is a knack to setting up MAME32 with the GC stick. Thanks to the way the L and R buttons are normally analogue on GC pads, they appear in the driver as throttle axes. To get MAME to register your button presses properly, when defining the button hold it down and keep holding it down until its finished doing the defining of it; the first time MAME thought that I meant the letting the button go instead, and so firing timing was all over the place.
MAME is just so much better when you've got two arcade sticks, rather than huddling round a keyboard! Anyway, thats the success I've had; can anyone else confirm anything (preferably console to console now)?
To get the ball rolling, I received my order from Console Plus at the weekend of the PC version of the Magicbox and the GC to PC Joybox 13. Both of these worked fine with my two sticks, the Magicbox working for all the buttons on my official DC stick, and the Joybox (with a little recalibration) doing all the buttons on my GC Soul Calibur II stick.
While I didn't need to do any installing of drivers on Windows XP at all, there is a knack to setting up MAME32 with the GC stick. Thanks to the way the L and R buttons are normally analogue on GC pads, they appear in the driver as throttle axes. To get MAME to register your button presses properly, when defining the button hold it down and keep holding it down until its finished doing the defining of it; the first time MAME thought that I meant the letting the button go instead, and so firing timing was all over the place.
MAME is just so much better when you've got two arcade sticks, rather than huddling round a keyboard! Anyway, thats the success I've had; can anyone else confirm anything (preferably console to console now)?