06004: dotron and clones: Aim up and down are buttons only

ID	Category [?]	Severity [?]	Reproducibility	Date Submitted	Last Update
06004	DIP/Input	Minor	Always	Jul 30, 2015, 16:14	Aug 2, 2015, 04:01

Tester	haynor666	View Status	Public	Platform	MAME (Official Binary)
Assigned To		Resolution	No change required	OS	Windows Vista/7/8 (64-bit)
Status [?]	Closed			Driver	midway/mcr.cpp
Version	0.164	Fixed in Version		Build	64-bit
		Fixed in Git Commit		Github Pull Request #

Summary	06004: dotron and clones: Aim up and down are buttons only
Description	In games Y axis of spinner is defined as analog but spinner Y axis was only two buttons. Selftest confirm this also. Also look at spinner: http://forum.arcadecontrols.com/index.php?topic=34155.0
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Affected Sets / Systems	dotron and clones

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No.11915 Tafoid Administrator Jul 30, 2015, 17:56	It is a fake port. MAME is full of such ports which is currently a needed evil to allow keyboards/digital devices to interface with analog devices in such cases. I'm not entirely sure if there can be anything we can do to make it disappear from your mapping. The game itself has all inputs covered and they work however they are mapped.
No.11917 haynor666 Tester Jul 30, 2015, 18:07	What do mean by fake port? What I can see Track Y alalog should be removed and replaced by two buttons.
No.11919 Tafoid Administrator Jul 30, 2015, 18:26	There are two buttons Aim Up and Aim Down which perform as expected and can be mapped to a analog device if you have such a beast.
No.11929 NekoEd Senior Tester Aug 2, 2015, 04:01	These are features/limitations of MAME's input system (depending on how you want to look at it). The inputs are physically there on the boards, even if they're not used, so it's technically correct. Closing as per that explanation, if a dev wants to comment or reopen, feel free.