Does anyone else have issues with Marble Madness, via MAME, using a 360 controller?

[St_Eddie]

As per the tile; Marble Madness is one of my all time favourite games .  However, when using MAME, the speed of the ball is very slow (using an XBox 360 controller).  I had MAME on my previous (now dead) PC and the rom worked great (as evidenced here).  Any help on this matter would be appreciated greatly.

 

Thank you.

[damageinc86]

That was a frickin' fantastic run. WOW! No idea why it would be slower for no apparent reason though.

[Headrush69]

WOW those are some tight controls in that video.

Have you adjusted the analog controls within MAME? Every once in a while MAME devs makes corrections and adjustments to control values if better information becomes avaliable.

Whenever I have a random issue with MAME for a game that previously worked perfectly, I extract a clean MAME folder and run the game there as well. Helps narrow down whether it was a MAME change or possibly a faulty or corrupt older cfg, ini, etc.

Edited October 30, 2023 by Headrush69
Fix unclear wording.

[St_Eddie]

It was indeed the analogue settings which were the problem. I disabled the binding for increase/decrease speed and then adjusted the speed of the X and Y trackball movement.  It's a little hard to pin down what the correct speed should be, but around 200 or so seems to be the sweet spot.  Thank you for your help!

Thanks also for the compliments on my prior Marble Madness run, by the way.

Edited October 27, 2023 by St_Eddie

[Headrush69]

On 10/27/2023 at 10:56 AM, St_Eddie said:

It was indeed the analogue settings which were the problem. I disabled the binding for increase/decrease speed and then adjusted the speed of the X and Y trackball movement.  It's a little hard to pin down what the correct speed should be, but around 200 or so seems to be the sweet spot.  Thank you for your help!

Are you using an actual trackball? What values did you end up with for sensitivity?

I have a Hi-Rez encoder wheels on my trackball, so my values are different than most people, but I never played Marble Madness on a real cabinet, so I don't know exactly how it should feel.

[St_Eddie]

I'm just using the analogue stick on an XBox 360 controller.  I've never played an actual cabinet either (chance would be a fine thing), so I can't be certain what the sensitivity ought to be either.  I'm just taking a guess at what feels right.