MAMEWorld Forums - EmuChat - Re: Querying MAME for system information

> > Your best option would be to use the "mame system -listxml" parameter and find the
> > relevant information yourself. For example "mame laser500 -listxml" returns:
>
> Ooh! This is exactly what I needed. Thanks for that BIOS-D
>
> mame64 crvision -listxml > Creativision.xml
>
> I then thumbed through the resultant file and...
> < control type="joy" player="1" buttons="2" ways="8"/ >
> So yep. That looks wrong. Guess I'll be off to raise a bug report :-)
>
> Thanks again, BIOS-D

You're welcome. I am not exactly an electronic expert but unless I am missing anything and looking at photos I don't think that could handle 16 directions.

EDIT: I'm taking that back. It indeed handles 16 directions with 8 digital contact points. So that might explain why MAME is set to 8 way.

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Edited by BIOS-D (05/25/19 05:19 PM)