[eca] 4-Speed Gear Lever Inputs Not Mapped Correctly

[mmarino4]

Emergency Call Ambulance can use both an up/down gear shifter or a 4-speed shifter like the one used in Daytona 2. The type of gear lever is chosen in the Game Assignments menu. When 4-speed is chosen, none of the mapped gear inputs register. Pressing the shift up button activates gear 1 and shift down activates gear 2. There is no way to choose gears 3 or 4.

[jaoxford]

You need to go to your games.xml file and make sure it's set correctly.

Go to the Emergency Call Ambulance section,

And change:

<input type="shiftupdown" />

To:

<input type="shift4" />

[mmarino4]

It worked. Thank you. Is there a way to have neutral activate automatically when no gear input is held down rather than a separate button input?

[jaoxford]

I never figured that one out unfortunately. I don't think it's a dealbreaker tbh. More of a nice to have.

Maybe @dukeeeey or @trzy can give their take on the neutral thing?

[mmarino4]

Most games it doesn't matter at all. I only bring it up for this game because it has a special move where you quickly shift out of 4th into neutral then back in 4th and get a short speed boost. Similar to the boosts in Crazy Taxi. It's a bit cumbersome with the added input in the middle of it.

[trzy]

Gears are sticky -- when a button is pressed, the state changes. You want the gears to be "non-sticky" so that they are only active when held down. This behavior would only make sense for 4-speed gear mode, right?

[mmarino4]

Gears are sticky -- when a button is pressed, the state changes. You want the gears to be "non-sticky" so that they are only active when held down. This behavior would only make sense for 4-speed gear mode, right?

Correct.

[jaoxford]

Does having the gears as 'sticky' interferes with the cheat in ECA?

[mmarino4]

Does having the gears as 'sticky' interferes with the cheat in ECA?

Which cheat? The turbo boost I'm talking about here? No, It needs to register neutral for it to work. The cheat where you play as the stretcher would still work.