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Dance Mat USB problem - possible solution...
This is a possible work-around to the dance mat USB problem (you can`t press up and down at the same time), but I don`t know how to implement the solution. Help would be much appreciated. If anyone knows of a better way of getting around it, then please post! Dance mats are (AFAIK) configured in windows as a joystick with extra buttons, this means two axes with up/down and left/right. The dance programs frequently require stepping on the up and down pads at once, so I started thinking about how to get around this. I figured I could download new drivers, but google drew a blank, as did driverguide.com etc. So that was shot down in flames. The driver is a general USB-compliant device, which I assume is a general non-specific driver. So I started mucking about in the registry. I figured that the axes number of buttons might be controlled somewhere in there. I found out that: [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\ControlSet001\Control\Me diaProperties \PrivateProperties\Joystick\OEM\VID_0E8F&PID_0002] has a few flags that control that: OEMData has a binary hex:00,00,00,00,0a,00,00,00 OEMName USB Joystick So I tried changing the hex 0a (decimal 10) to hex 08 (decimal 8) to see if the buttons would change. They didn't. My reasoning was that if I could change the four axes buttons (up,down,left,right) to be recognised as four buttons, then I would have a working dance mat. I`ve also found that the calibration is controlled from he [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Contro l\MediaProperties \PrivateProperties\DirectInput\VID_0E8F&PID_0002\C alibration\0\Type \Axes] and it has the two axes 0 and 1 as folders with a calibration key underneath it. Changing it changes the calibration in the "game controllers" control panel. Any ideas where I can go from here? |
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Whoops, forgot to change my name. Dave In article , says... This is a possible work-around to the dance mat USB problem (you can`t press up and down at the same time), but I don`t know how to implement the solution. Help would be much appreciated. If anyone knows of a better way of getting around it, then please post! |
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