How to turn Stella mouse paddle emulation completely off?

[Fort Apocalypse]

I want to use only keyboard for paddle emulation in stella (have 4 paddles being emulated), but I tried tab -> Input Settings -> Virtual Devs -> Mouse is paddle = 0 and it still resets the paddle value to 0 periodically (I'm assuming this is because it is still looking at the mouse for paddle 0. Is there a way to fully turn off mouse emulation of the paddle in Stella, or am I just stuck with erratic behavior of at least one paddle?

 

Thanks,

Gary

[Fort Apocalypse]

attached program to show you what I mean:

 

the flickering ball at bottom is the paddle0 value. (the steadier ball below that is the directional value I'm adding to or subtracting from so ignore that one). notice how after a while of changing it via keyboard it resets to 0.

 

Note if you build this you'll need playerscores from here

 

ultindy500_0.2.basultindy500_0.2.bas.bin

[+stephena]

I want to use only keyboard for paddle emulation in stella (have 4 paddles being emulated), but I tried tab -> Input Settings -> Virtual Devs -> Mouse is paddle = 0 and it still resets the paddle value to 0 periodically (I'm assuming this is because it is still looking at the mouse for paddle 0. Is there a way to fully turn off mouse emulation of the paddle in Stella, or am I just stuck with erratic behavior of at least one paddle?

 

Thanks,

Gary

Right now, you can't. But it seems like a good feature to add. Perhaps for the next release. I never envisioned anyone wanting to turn off 'mouse is paddle' mode. Quite frankly, the keyboard emulation of paddle movement isn't great, and probably never will be. Nothing beats a real analog device (Stelladaptor with paddles) or even a joystick with an analog axis. But it's certainly easy enough to disable the mouse entirely.

[Fort Apocalypse]

Nothing beats a real analog device (Stelladaptor with paddles) or even a joystick with an analog axis. But it's certainly easy enough to disable the mouse entirely.

 

It would be nice. I'm getting more careful now about the mouse so it isn't as bad. I wish I had 2 stella adaptors and 2 sets of paddles. I know what to ask my kids to get me for Christmas. Or should I just ask for a real 2600 with set of games and 2 sets of paddles, and a croc cart/etc.?

Edited September 29, 2007 by Fort Apocalypse

[+stephena]

Nothing beats a real analog device (Stelladaptor with paddles) or even a joystick with an analog axis. But it's certainly easy enough to disable the mouse entirely.

 

It would be nice. I'm getting more careful now about the mouse so it isn't as bad. I wish I had 2 stella adaptors and 2 sets of paddles. I know what to ask my kids to get me for Christmas. Or should I just ask for a real 2600 with set of games and 2 sets of paddles, and a croc cart/etc.?

Well, I'll leave it to you to decide what you want for Christmas , but Stella does support two Stelladaptors and two sets of paddles if you decide to go that route.